Ricky Gervais confirms his Office character David Brent will go to America

Comic Ricky Gervais has confirmed that his Office character David Brent will return on the US version of the show.

Gervais, 48, revealed that the character will have a clash of personalities with Steve Carell’s character Michael Scott, who is the US series’ Brent equivalent.

He told UK newspaper The Sun: “I think it would be funny for David Brent to walk into the US Office and hear them go: ‘Oh my God, there’s two of them’!

“We don’t need to know about Brent’s back story – the English Office exists in a cocoon and in the DVD. Michael Scott could just bump into Brent, who is a bloke from England.”

He added: “I don’t think we’ll take any of the other UK characters over – we’ll probably leave it with just me because it’s just too complicated.”