When Tate Donovan was cast as Rachel's lover, Joshua, on the programme, Jennifer Aniston and Rachel Green's relationships coincided. Donovan and Aniston had just split up at the time, making the meeting unpleasant and "awful," as Donovan subsequently put it. Jennifer Aniston and Paul Rudd have a history together.

Did any of the Friends cast dated in real life?

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While speaking to Access, the three men- David Schwimmer, Matthew Perry and Matt LeBlanc- addressed why they had never dated in real life. "There was a rule that we had [that] was really important to the six of us that we kept a friendship, that we were friends," explained Perry.

Which Friends characters slept together?

Of course, there are the obvious ones — Ross and Rachel, Monica and Chandler — even Rachel and Joey, but as die-hard Friends fans know, nearly everycombination of the “Friends” have hooked up at one point or another; we saw Phoebe and Ross hook up in one of the flashback episodes that addresses the group's incestuous ...