Mindy Kaling, BJ Novak calls the relationship “complicated” in Emmys

Former Mindy Kaling and BJ Novak joked about their “incredibly complicated relationship” while presentation of the award at the 2022 Emmy Awards.

Former The Office stars have mentioned their days of working on 22 episodes a year as scriptwriters for a long-running comedy, calling today’s limited series writers “lazy bastards.”

Novak, 43, remembered how NBC would “take your whole life” without “not having time for other projects”.

Kaling, also 43, agreed, adding that “she has no time to socialize,” leaving them “with no choice but to establish insanely complex relationships.”

Twitter users speculated that the actress was referring to rumors that Novak was the father of her two children: 4-year-old daughter Katherine and 2-year-old son Spencer.

“Bj novak and mindy kaling should win an emmy for acting like they don’t have kids together,” one Twitter fan joked.

Others have pointed out that “Baby Love” by The Supremes played as a former couple who dated on hiatus from 2004 to 2007, entered the stage to present an award for Outstanding Writing for a limited series or anthology series or movie “The White Lotus” . “.

“WHEN BJ NOVAK AND MINDY KALING COME TOGETHER IN THE LOVE OF A CHILD, IT IS A GREAT TROLL” – wrote one of the social media users and the other addition“The way I WOULD SCREAM, when” child’s love “played as mindy kaling and bj novak walked on stage, you are all smart.”

Kaling has referred in the past to speculation about paternity, I’m Marie Claire last month that rumors “didn’t bother her.”

“He is godparents to both of my children – and they have a wonderful relationship – and so far [the speculation hasn’t] it affected my happiness at all, it didn’t affect my children or BJ, ”explained the graduate of Mindy Project.

“If it’s exciting for people, I’ll take it,” she continued.

Kaling noted that she had no intention of revealing the father of her children until the little ones got to know each other.

“I want them to be old enough to talk to me about it and [tell me] how they want me to talk about it, said winner Tony, calling her decision “very careful”.

Though Kaling called her and Novak a “romantically charged” and “weird as hell” bond when talking to InStyle in 2015, she gave her a “less sexy character” during Interview “CBS Sunday Morning” four years later.

“He’s really part of my family now,” she said then. “People … think it’s more romantic, shiny, or interesting than it is.”