B.J. Novak on making his face on a magazine cover

Image copyright Getty Images Image caption B.J. Novak is the sixth richest man in the world and lists his net worth at $3.8bn From sitcom star to comic and disc jockey to Internet dandy,…

B.J. Novak on making his face on a magazine cover

Image copyright Getty Images Image caption B.J. Novak is the sixth richest man in the world and lists his net worth at $3.8bn

From sitcom star to comic and disc jockey to Internet dandy, B.J. Novak is one of the most prominent faces on social media.

The actor and singer also knows how to know when to leave the selfie game alone.

Writing in his blog for the New York Times, he pointed out that his face is now appearing on billboards and magazine covers around the world.

In America, Novak recently appeared on a billboard in Times Square, photographed next to Britney Spears and close-up with a baseball cap on backwards, which was posted on Instagram and shared over 500,000 times.

Image copyright iStock Image caption The Grammy-nominated singer and comedian appears on the cover of Billboard magazine in December 2018

“From here on out, at least for a few years, a photo of my face could appear on any billboard anywhere in the world. And anyone who comes past would not even have to see a butchy-face that I had trimmed at the first sign of puberty,” Novak wrote.

“They can just smile in appreciation and all will be well.”

Image copyright AP Image caption Novak was in Sydney last month

Those aforementioned American magazine covers were shot by photographer Francesco Carrozzini, a talent who Novak said he trusted implicitly.

“Imagine the photo of Francesco Carrozzini that W is planning to use for its cover with James Gunn to promote Guardians of the Galaxy 3. I would have passed out if I had actually seen that,” he wrote.

Image copyright Netflix Image caption Novak is best known for his role as Walter Gable on The Office

Instead, the popular actor turned Spotify and YouTube star posted a model-showing-selfie on Twitter from a full-length magazine cover in Argentina.

Back in February, Decider magazine – whose slogan is “the world’s fanciest every day fashion magazine”, issued a cover of Novak with the headline: “What would I wear if I had no superpowers?”

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