This may not be too earth shattering for most females, but if you actually have a pulse your heart too should be breaking right about now. My own true Hollywood sweetheart, one half of the Jim and Pam love saga on NBC’s “The Office”, is officially off the market. Yes ladies, the baby-faced boy next door that is John Krasinski has taken that first step towards real-life nuptials with girlfriend of just under a year, Emily Blunt, and has become engaged to the “The Devil Wears Prada” star. This story has sadly been confirmed by reps of “The Office" as reported to Access Hollywood this past Friday afternoon.
A case of life imitating art? It sure seems it. Rumor has it that the on-screen pair of “The Office” played by Krasinski and Jenna Fisher, Pam and Jim, will actually tie the knot come season’s end. It’s been a long awaited punctuation to the cat-and-mouse game that has had audience members, particularly of the femme variety, anxiously enduring break-ups and make-ups all for this potential small-screen moment, but could it be that playing a soon-to-wed has become as contagious as a sneeze in a crowded room? We all know that celebs have a habit of method acting to a T and Kate Hudson and “Brangelina” are a testament to that (of course in those cases it involved extracurricular affairs with the on-screen couple and not their respective relationships...but you get the point). Either way, this abrupt engagement still comes as quite a shock when Krasinski and Blunt’s relationship has, up until now, been so stealthily secured under the radar. Oh well, best of, err, luck to both of them.
Well, we better not be hearing the pitter-patter of mini-Krasinski’s anytime soon, or else we’ll truly be witnessing a case of life imitating art. (As most avid “Office” fans know, writer’s all but explicitly told audiences that Jim and Pam will be “expecting” in the forthcoming season).
[Sigh]
