{"id":771885,"date":"2026-07-01T10:40:12","date_gmt":"2026-07-01T10:40:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/771885\/"},"modified":"2026-07-01T10:40:12","modified_gmt":"2026-07-01T10:40:12","slug":"the-office-25-year-reunion-ricky-gervais-reveals-real-reason-for-skipping-bbc-event-as-he-announces-his-own","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/771885\/","title":{"rendered":"The Office 25 year reunion: Ricky Gervais reveals real reason for skipping BBC event as he announces his own"},"content":{"rendered":"

Ricky Gervais<\/a> has revealed the real reason he won\u2019t be at the BBC\u2019s 25-year reunion of The Office<\/a>, after he announced his own anniversary special. <\/p>\n

To mark the occasion, BBC will run a television<\/a> event with series stars Martin Freeman and Mackenzie Crook. Co-creator Gervais, 65, who played \u2018boss from hell\u2019 David Brent won\u2019t be there and will instead air his own documentary on his YouTube channel<\/a>. <\/p>\n

\"Ricky<\/p>\n

The BBC is celebrating 25 years since The Office but creator and main star Ricky Gervais won’t be there.\u00a0BBC<\/p>\n

A representative for Gervais told\u00a0The Independent<\/a>\u00a0that the comedian \u201cwas not available\u201d to take part in the BBC\u2019s documentary, but remains in contact with the broadcaster<\/a> \u201call the time about\u00a0The Office\u201d.<\/p>\n

They added they were \u201ckeen to clarify that there is no rift\u201d between Gervais and the broadcaster. <\/p>\n

Gervais hasn\u2019t revealed the full plans for his YouTube content but confirmed it would drop around the exact anniversary of The Office on July 9 and that he will be releasing a trailer ahead of time. <\/p>\n

His representative did share that Gervais\u2019 anniversary project \u201cwill be an affectionate look back at [The Office] on this big anniversary\u201d. <\/p>\n

Meanwhile on July 8, sitcom stars Freeman (who played Tim) and Crook (who played Gareth) will sit down for a special episode of Remembers on the BBC to share anecdotes about what happened backstage. <\/p>\n

Like Gervais, The Office co-creator Stephen Merchant will not be in the BBC\u2019s television episode. <\/p>\n

The hit workplace mockumentary first aired in July 2001 and concluded after its second series and a pair of Christmas specials in December 2003.<\/p>\n

Loved for its \u2018fly-on-the-wall\u2019 dry humour, it followed the mundane day-to-day lives of employees at the fictional Wenham Hogg paper. <\/p>\n

\"Ricky<\/p>\n

Gervais starred as the cringe-inducing and desperate boss David Brent in The Office.\u00a0BBC<\/p>\n

It directly inspired the massively successful US adaptation starring Steve Carell which ran from 2005 until 2013. <\/p>\n

In 2019, Ricky told GQ he was \u201cstill a fan\u201d of the BBC, but wished the company would be \u201cbraver\u201d. <\/p>\n

\u201cI wish it wouldn\u2019t bow down to pressure from media or from one complaint,\u201d he said. <\/p>\n

\"Ricky<\/p>\n

Gervais’ representative made it clear there was ‘no rift’ between him and the BBC.\u00a0Getty<\/p>\n

\u201cThat has got worse, and the days are gone when people say, \u2018We\u2019re leaving it as it is\u2019. Commissioning editors are scared of being fired.\u201d<\/p>\n

Gervais\u2019 comments came just after the BBC decided to retrospectively add content warnings for discriminatory language on some episodes of The Office. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Ricky Gervais has revealed the real reason he won\u2019t be at the BBC\u2019s 25-year reunion of The Office,…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":771886,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[64,63,134,427],"class_list":["post-771885","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tv","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-entertainment","tag-tv"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/771885","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=771885"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/771885\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/771886"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=771885"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=771885"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=771885"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}