Jenna Fischer Gets Candid About Losing Role in Matt LeBlanc's 'Man with a Plan' TV Looking back at the time she was replaced by Selma Blair, the former star of 'The Office' claims that test audiences couldn't believe Pam would marry Joey from 'Friends'. Jul 20, 2021 Matt LeBlanc's wife on his recent sitcom, because audiences couldn't believe her " The Office" character would marry Joey from "Friends". The actress shot a pilot for U.S. show " Man with a Plan", but was replaced when the show aired, because test audiences closely associated herself and LeBlanc with their iconic TV characters. Fischer, who played Pam Beesly on "The Office" for nine seasons, says, "They [test audiences] said, 'I don't believe Pam would marry Joey. The chemistry doesn't work between these two.' That was the feedback they [producers] got. So it wasn't working for them that we got married and had a family."