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Brian Baumgartner has revealed that he and Today contributor Dylan Dreyer and their families have vacationed together.
On one ski trip, Dreyer’s young son became upset after Baumgartner supposedly yelled at him. The actor said his booming voice just makes it seem like he’s yelling when he’s not.
The families still joke about the incident.
As Kevin on The Office, Brian Baumgartner was so low-key that it was a joke. But don’t try telling that to the son of Today meteorologist Dylan Dreyer.
The actor and Dreyer are actually longtime friends whose families have vacationed together, he explained Thursday on her show The Parent Chat.
He recalled that once on a ski trip, where they were joined by his wife, Celeste, their two daughters, and Dryer’s three sons, he and Dreyer’s middle son, 6-year-old Oliver, had a moment that’s still discussed by the parents.
It happened when Baumgartner was urging the kids to get ready for ski school and out the door more quickly one day.
That didn’t sit well with Oliver, who “loves breakfast,” his mom noted.
She could tell he was unhappy when Baumgartner continued urging people to hurry.
“His cheeks are shaking and his eyes are welling up with tears,” Dreyer said of her son.
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She took a guess at the culprit.
“I said, ‘Did Brian yell at you?'” Dreyer said, “and the waterworks just came out.”
Baumgartner countered that he hadn’t yelled. He just has a loud voice.
Still, Dreyer said, “When a 5-year-old doesn’t realize you’re kidding, it’s terrifying.”
Still, the incident remains a joke between the families.
Baumgartner teased on the podcast that “Ollie needs to buck up,” to which his mom agreed.
He vowed to actually raise his voice in their next encounter: “The first thing I’m going to do when I see him is yell, ‘Ollie, come here!'”
Baumgartner, who’s also appeared on shows such as Melissa and Joey, The Goldbergs, and Suits LA, has talked about his relationship with the long-running NBC comedy, which aired between 2005 and 2013.
Brian Baumgartner as Kevin Malone on ‘The Office’
Credit: Mitchell Haaseth/NBC
“The Office being 10 years, nine seasons, I mean, I was essentially on the show the entirety of my thirties,” he said while hosting the iHeartRadio podcast Off the Beat in July 2022.
“I mean, it was a decade. To give people perspective, that’s like progressing from high school through college and then a couple of more years,” he said. “It’s such a long period of your life and you establish such deep relationships and obviously, such close identification with those characters. At the time we were doing 30 episodes a year, which now is like never, ever done. So we were working a lot of weeks.”
When the show ended, he said, he “wanted to distance myself.”
“I thought, ‘I don’t want to be Kevin Malone forever,'” Baumgartner said. “I spent a long time turning down roles that I felt were too similar or wanted a similar sort of feeling and character.”
But The Office has stayed popular through reruns and streaming services. He’s given up on trying to shake off his most famous role and even come to embrace it.
“I consider it a blessing, especially the amazing fans who talk about how The Office gave them comfort, how it helped them during a difficult time,” he noted. “I mean, countless stories, way more than I can mention. That’s an amazing thing.”
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