Kate Flannery Shares Fun Facts About 'The Office's' Meredith Palmer [EXCLUSIVE]

'The Office' just lately introduced on NBC's streaming service, Peacock. Kate Flannery, who performed Meredith Palmer, shared some fun facts about her personality.

After many years on Netflix, The Office has formally left the streaming platform in favor of NBC's new streaming carrier, Peacock. But before you groan over wanting to subscribe to but another platform, Peacock is bringing The Office to you with loads of never-before-seen content material.

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You may not need a Peacock subscription to view the series' first two seasons, regardless that if you want all of the new clips and bloopers, you'll be able to want to join the platform for $4.99 a month. The new content material is so exclusive, even one of the crucial cast participants don't know what you'll get!

Cast member Kate Flannery sat down with Distractify to let us know just a little extra about her character, Meredith Palmer, and what kind of exclusive The Office content you can expect to look on Peacock.

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We were supposed to be told that Meredith is an alcoholic quicker.

It's no secret that Meredith's character is a bit...neatly, messy. And we be told that she struggles with alcohol addiction right through the Christmas episode in Season 2, titled "Christmas Party."

Kate stated audience have been in fact supposed to learn of Meredith's alcoholism right through the season's Halloween episode, however it did not make the reduce. 

"So there was a little bit of a sad drinking single parent vibe going on," she stated.

Kate's boyfriend made an appearance in the series finale.

Occasionally, people from the cast contributors' actual lives will make appearances in presentations, and The Office creators found a option to come with Kate's IRL boyfriend, Chris Haston, within the series finale.

"During Dwight and Angela's wedding, the finale, Meredith was dancing with [my] real boyfriend," Kate stated. She met her longtime spouse whilst on the display, as he is a photographer for NBC. "So when Michael Scott and Dwight are dancing, Meredith and [my] real boyfriend, Chris, are dancing," Kate informed us.

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The show's writers considered killing Meredith off.

Viewers most probably be mindful the very dramatic episode where Michael by chance hits Meredith along with his automobile whilst pulling into the automobile parking space of Dunder Mifflin. In the episode, Meredith got off with just a broken pelvis, however on the Office Ladies podcast, it is revealed that the creators in reality contemplated killing Meredith off.

"I actually said, 'Do I live?'" Kate said of her response to studying the script. "I just kind of made it as a joke, but I was kind of like, 'What's going on?'"

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As we all know, Meredith does no longer die (spoiler!). She even makes it all the technique to the series finale! But it appears, the show's creators weren't sure that may happen.

"I don't know who's not a Meredith fan, but she's like a cockroach — still here!" Kate joked.

We will in the end have solutions for what came about to Meredith's face in the "Weight Loss" episode.

One of the perks of The Office's debut on Peacock is that sure episodes will come with new and exclusive content material — and Kate mentioned we're going to in any case get to know what's going on with Meredith's face in the two-part "Weight Loss" episode. 

"She gets like sun poisoning and it just gets worse and worse," Kate stated. "Every time we have the group weigh-ins, her face just got weirder and weirder, so I'm excited that that will finally be answered."

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