Patrick Dempsey will be in Transformers 3. Paramount has confirmed the rom-com star’s Monday announcement of his involvement to various sources.

Those of you hoping it’s just some sort of cameo, prepare to abandon all hope. EW says that his role is “significant to the plot”. Except it doesn’t sound particularly significant. He’ll play Megan Fox’s boss. When last we saw Mikaela Banes she was working as a grease monkey in a motorcycle shop. I don’t see Dempsey as the Orange County Choppers type (though apparently in real life he’s something of an amateur racer), so Mikaela must have a new job. I’m rooting for naughty nurse.