Mindy Kaling Plans a Christmas Surprise for Daughter with BJ Novak Office Co-Star

Some of the distributed friends were forged “The desk” they are so healthy and seemingly stronger than ever after all these years. Maybe nothing more than that Mindy Kaling and her boyfriend on screen again / again BJ Novak.

In an interview with Tory Burch on Friday, Kaling put together a very clever and sweet plan that she and Novak cooked for Christmas this year.

Even better, he has already decided that this plan is a keeper and a new tradition of the Kaling family.

“When you have your own children, you can invent your own things and then just decide to do it every year,” she told Burch with a laugh.

Making the experience even more exciting is that Novak already has a significant connection to Kaling’s three-year-old daughter, Katherine.

“Her godfather is BJ Novak and she is going to show up and go to our living room, where the tree is, in Santa’s costume,” she said. The idea came about because the pandemic made Santa’s visit impossible this year and “she’s the only child who doesn’t cry or scream.”

The whole plan certainly sounds like something that would happen at the “Office” – we can now imagine the madness induced by the pandemic – but hopefully it will not end in some kind of awkward disaster.

We can imagine that Ryan’s Novak simply takes off his beard and hat in the middle of the surprise and tells Mindy’s Kelly that he can’t do this, that he has somewhere else to be just a ghost, leaving his child traumatized and terrified.

Fortunately, this is real life, and their friendship is much stronger than their relationship in the series – and they are much better people.

Hilarious, Mindy had one more detail to share. “Just so you know, we’re Hindus and BJ is Jewish, so this is, like, a cultural trait on our part,” she laughed. In a way, it is even sweeter because it makes the new tradition even more personal.

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