Jennifer Aniston NEARLY missed out on playing Rachel in Friends

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Author: Emma DoddsPublished 4th Oct 2018
Last updated 5th Oct 2018

Friends is now an iconic piece of history. Despite the fact that it only finished airing 14 years ago, it's already a staple piece of our culture. The six main actors - Courteney Cox, Jennifer Aniston, Lisa Kudrow, David Schwimmer, Matthew Perry and Matt Le Blanc - will forever be known as their fictional counterparts. In our hearts, at least.

But according to some BRAND NEW INFORMATION, Jennifer Aniston very nearly missed out on the role of Rachel Green, as fellow actress Tiffani Amber Thiessen claims she was almost offered the part.

The 44-year-old, who is best known for her performance as Kelly Kapowski in Saved By The Bell, opened up to Nikki Glaser on her Sirius XM radio show to reveal that she was shortlisted for the role.

The Beverley Hills 90210 star said, "Did you know I tested for Friends, for Jennifer Aniston?. I was just a little too young. I was a little too young to the pairing of the rest of them," before adding that she found 49-year-old JenAn "very, very funny."

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This comes after the news that the producers very nearly had a completely different ending intended for Ross and Rachel, whose relationship was one of the main storylines throughout the 10 seasons of the show.

Executive producer and director of Friends Kevin S. Bright told Metro.co.uk that writers Marta Kauffman and David Crane changed their minds about the course of Ross and Rachel's love - and how it was originally going to run MUCH more smoothly.

He said, "I would say initially when Ross and Rachel was planned, it wasn’t planned that way, that came a little bit later. It allowed us to have fun with the show and give people something to root for.

"We were well aware the audience wanted to keep them together but everything that was keeping them apart... We realised when we got them together when the first kiss happened we thought, 'Wow, the air has kind of gone out of the balloon.' There wasn’t that sexual tension anymore.

"I thought what Marta and David did, which was such a brilliant and brave move with their relationship, as soon as everyone got their wish the wish was taken away. It made it so much better when they did get together."

Thank GOODNESS for that.

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