Wendi McLendon-Covey Says Steve Carell Was a 'Good Kisser' on The Office

Wendi McLendon-Covey was just involved Office for one episode, but it was an unforgettable experience, all the same.

The 55-year-old actress played Steve Carell’s short-lived lover in a season 5 episode of the hit sitcom, and she reveals what it was like to work on the show.

During the segment on Watch what’s happening live On November 14, McLendon-Covey was asked to describe several of her previous actors. When Carell, 62, was mentioned, she admitted that she was a “good kisser.”

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Andy Cohen then asked when she worked with him, and she recalled playing “doorkeeper Marie” on Office In 2008, her character was the passing love of Carell’s Michael Scott after his devastating breakup with Holly Flax (Amy Ryan).

“It was a one-off…and that was after I got fired from another job because I was too ‘ugly’. I flew home and got an offer Office the next day,” she said. “And it was like, ‘God, I think I just fell into a pile of blessings.'”

She said “nobody ever saw” the other job she was fired from, and even when Cohen pressed her to name it, she said, “You’d never know what it was — and it ruined careers.”

Wendi McLendon-Covey, Steve Carell kiss in ‘The Office’.

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McLendon-Covey is now acting St. Denis Medicalnew NBC mockumentary workplace docuseries that is already reminiscing fans Office.

She told PEOPLE earlier this month that she had “never played a person like Joyce,” her character on the show, who is the CEO of a hospital.

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“I love Joyce. It’s a bit of a mess,” the actress said of the “former oncologist,” who is now “a hospital administrator, which means she works more than 40 hours a week trying to raise funds.”

“She’s in constant fundraising mode, and it’s just bubbling under the surface. She’s going to explode at some point, and that’s why I like to play those kinds of people who try to hide their true emotions.”

Wendi McLendon-Covey as Joyce in ‘St. Denis Medicinski’.

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It was a difficult transition, after spending 10 years The Goldbergs, which ended just as she was boarding the St. Denis Medical.

“It was so hard because while I was in negotiations for this and shooting this pilot, I was also on a closing farewell tour The Goldbergsand it was heartbreaking for me,” she said of the show ending in May 2023. “I loved that show. I loved all these people and I felt really, really weird.”

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Office can be streamed in its entirety on Peacock, and St. Denis Medical airs Tuesdays at 8:00 PM ET on NBC.

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