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Merchant is nobody’s poodle

BEANPOLE comic Stephen Merchant admits he’s at loggerheads with his girlfriend – because she’s desperate to get a tiny poodle.

Merchant, who created The Office with writing partner Ricky Gervais, is 6ft 7in and worries that he’ll look ridiculous if he is forced to take the dog for a walk.

The 47-year-old says of his spats with US actress Mircea Monroe: ‘We’ve been having arguments because she’s very keen to get a dog.

‘But she is obsessed with just the tiny little poodles, and I keep trying to make the argument that I can’t walk them.

‘Can you imagine me walking a poodle? I’d just be dragging it along.

‘It needs to be a big dog, like an alsatian or something.’

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