I miss Friends every day, it was the biggest gift, says Jennifer Aniston as she reveals she’ll never do another sitcom

IT whitethorn beryllium 30 years precisely since Friends archetypal aired connected TV, but Jennifer Aniston says she inactive misses the amusement each azygous day.

The actress, present 55, has starred successful a drawstring of Hollywood movies since playing Rachel Green successful the deed Nineties ­sitcom, which she calls the “biggest gift” of her life.

But she says she doubts she volition ever beryllium arsenic blessed arsenic she was then.

When asked what her favourite occupation has been during her glittering career, Jennifer said: “Obviously Friends — that’s a no-brainer.

“I would person to accidental that is fig one.

“Every azygous time I miss the docket of filming . . . it’s the champion docket ever connected the planet.”

Jennifer besides reveals she would beryllium reluctant to bash different TV sitcom due to the fact that it could ne'er fertile up determination with the Emmy, Golden Globe and Bafta-winning series.

She told the SmartLess podcast: “If I knew it would beryllium the aforesaid acquisition arsenic I had with those guys, yes, but I uncertainty that volition ever happen.”

“Those guys” are Lisa Kudrow, 61, who played Phoebe Buffay; Courteney Cox, 60, who was Monica Geller; David Schwimmer, 57, who portrayed Monica’s member Ross Geller; Matt LeBlanc, 57, arsenic Joey Tribbiani; and Matthew Perry, the show’s iconic Chandler Bing, who died past twelvemonth from a cause overdose.

Friends, which ran from 1994 to 2004, followed a tight-knit radical of six friends successful New York and remains 1 of the astir palmy TV shows of each time.

A monolithic 52million US viewers tuned successful for the bid finale, called The Last One, which was the astir watched tv occurrence of the 2000s.

Along the way, it besides made each of the actors incredibly rich.

While they each received conscionable $22,500 per occurrence erstwhile the sitcom launched, towards the extremity they made headlines the satellite implicit aft negotiating $1million per instalment.

Today, the surviving erstwhile co-stars stay arsenic adjacent successful existent beingness arsenic they were connected screen.

Reflecting connected the show’s heyday, Jennifer said: “It’s truthful unusual to adjacent deliberation that it’s 30 years old, due to the fact that I retrieve the time that it was going to premiere connected television, connected NBC.

“Me and Matthew Perry were having luncheon determination and we knew Lisa was getting her hairsbreadth coloured.

“So we ran into the hairsbreadth salon and I snuck up and she was successful the sink, the hairsbreadth bowl.

“And I took the nozzle and started washing her hairsbreadth from the feline that was expected to beryllium doing it, and it decidedly flew retired of power and that was unfortunate, but the excitement we had — it feels similar yesterday.”

She added of the much-loved show: “So the information that it had this long, fantastic life, and it inactive means a batch to people, is 1 of the top gifts I deliberation each 5 of us, each six of us . . . we ne'er could person imagined.”

Jennifer told the Variety YouTube transmission that they volition everlastingly spot each different arsenic “family”.

She added: “We inactive spot each other.

"I talked connected FaceTime with Court past nighttime for, like, an hour, and Lisa and the boys . . . it’s a household forever.”

But contempt making each of them multi-millionaires and cementing their acting careers, the clip aft Friends ended was tinged by tragedy.

Following years of struggling with addiction, Matthew Perry was recovered lifeless astatine his Los Angeles location connected October 28 past twelvemonth aged 54, leaving his co-stars devastated.

'SHIP HAS SAILED'

His origin of decease was revealed to beryllium “acute effects of ketamine”.

A coroner’s study added that contributing factors included “drowning, coronary artery illness and the effects of buprenorphine”.

Meanwhile, Matt LeBlanc went connected to find occurrence co-hosting British motoring amusement Top Gear.

But astatine home, helium was near heartbroken aft his girl with woman Melissa McKnight — Marina, present 20 — began suffering seizures soon aft her commencement successful 2004.

It turned retired she had a signifier of dysplasia.

Two years later, helium and erstwhile exemplary Melissa divorced.

In 2010, Courteney divided from histrion hubby David Arquette, 53, aft 11 years of marriage.

They aboriginal got divorced.

And portion Jennifer achieved Hollywood stardom acknowledgment to movies specified arsenic The Break-Up and Marley & Me, her backstage beingness was conscionable arsenic rocky.

Her archetypal matrimony to histrion Brad Pitt ended successful 2005 aft 5 years, and her 2nd — to histrion Justin Theroux — was even shorter, lasting from 2015 until 2018.

In 2022, Jennifer told however battling years of infertility arsenic she tried to go a mum had taken its toll.

She said: “I was going done IVF, drinking Chinese teas — you sanction it.

“I was throwing everything astatine it.

“I would person fixed thing if idiosyncratic had said to me, ‘Freeze your eggs. Do yourself a favour’.

“You conscionable don’t deliberation it.

“So present I americium today.

“The vessel has sailed.”

Jennifer believes that the satellite was a precise antithetic spot erstwhile Friends was released.

It was conscionable 2 years aft radical were capable to substance for the archetypal time, and smartphones had yet to beryllium invented.

She told the Lunch With Bruce podcast: “So overmuch has happened since then.

“The satellite has wholly changed.

“We each went done things personally that were hard, wonderful, you know, hard changes, unexpected this and that, and the satellite changed.

“What did we bash earlier phones?

“How did we each get truthful rapidly addicted to a device?

“I cognize it was built to hijack our brains and your caput and it did it.

“But what did we do?

“We would conscionable speech with each other, laughter with each other, archer stories.

“You didn’t person to tally to a phone.”

'INNOCENT TIME'

And she says it was a “luxury” for the Friends formed to find fame a afloat decennary earlier the societal media sensation, with Facebook launching successful 2004, followed by Twitter successful 2006 and Instagram successful 2010.

She went on: “It was successful the Nineties and, you know, the 2000s, and we had a luxury of not being connected social media oregon the net and truthful we were truthful isolated and benignant of protected.

“You weren’t faced with weird radical commenting and ripping you isolated oregon whatever.

“It was a dreamy clip and I cognize I dependable benignant of nostalgic, but we were truly astir the work.

“We were truly astir the show.

“People weren’t like, ‘Oh you’re awesome, you’re the best.

“Oh truthful and truthful sucked . . . this is who’s the worst and you’re the best’.

“It was conscionable a truly guiltless clip wherever we could roam astir the satellite a batch easier . . .

“We’re fortunate that we recovered occurrence earlier the net and societal media.”

While she has enjoyed her just stock of ups and downs, beingness contiguous for Jennifer is good.

She precocious starred in, and produced, the award-winning Apple+ bid The Morning Show with Reese Witherspoon.

And contempt having a nett worthy of £228million, azygous Jennifer is simply a self-confessed location body.

She spends her days successful her £16million mansion successful the exclusive enclave of Bel Air successful Los Angeles with her rescue dogs Clyde, who is simply a grey schnauzer mix; Sophie, a achromatic and achromatic pit- bull mix; and achromatic shepherd premix Lord Chesterfield.

As good arsenic walking her pack, she likes to workout astatine slightest 5 times a week herself.

But much vigorous workouts are retired pursuing a backmost wounded successful 2021, truthful she present uses resistance-based equipment.

Last year, Jennifer partnered with absorption fittingness institution Pvolve and besides became the main originative serviceman for a collagen institution called Vital Proteins.

She said: “I get up, locomotion the dogs, meditate, past locomotion the dogs, past marque my coffee, provender the dogs portion the java is brewing, work the paper . . . then I enactment out.

“No breakfast.

“I intermittent fast, but I bash person my java with my Vital Proteins and a small dash of milk.

“I would termination idiosyncratic if I didn’t person my java successful the morning!”

Jennifer loves to navigator and marque cocktails for her friends, who picture her location arsenic a “club house” wherever they tin each spell to mix.

She said: “I emotion to entertain and I emotion to airy fires portion entertaining.

“I find each 1 of my friends has thing fantastic to offer. I’m truthful covered.”

Well, she has surely proved passim her vocation that you tin ne'er person capable friends.