Was Jennifer Aniston replaced in Friends?

During season nine episode 15, “The One With The Mugging”, Jennifer Aniston was replaced with a stand-in while her character Rachel was still in shot, and the understudy (?!) wasn't even wearing the same outfit.
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Why did Jennifer Aniston leave Friends?

The actress also opened up about what she thought her life would be after the iconic show 'Friends' ended in 2004. The 52-year-old said that she had expected her professional career to be different after the show, but rather it was her personal stuff that shape-shifted, which was "jarring".
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Did they replace Monica on Friends?

Monica Geller replaced by another actor.

During season eight, episode five, as the camera cuts away from Phoebe to see Monica's reaction, the returning shot shows an entirely new actor sitting in place of Courtney.
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What show replaced the Friends set?

Joey is an American sitcom created by Scott Silveri and Shana Goldberg-Meehan. It is a spin-off/sequel to Friends, with Matt LeBlanc reprising his role as Joey Tribbiani. It premiered on NBC on September 9, 2004. Midway through the second season, the show was placed on a hiatus but returned on March 7, 2006.
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Why does Monica face look different in season 10?

Toward the end of filming season 10, Cox was pregnant with her first child, her daughter Coco, who was born just a few weeks after the final episode of "Friends" aired on NBC. Since Monica was not expecting on the show, Cox's pregnancy was strategically hidden with baggy shirts and props.
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'Friends': that episode when they replaced Rachel and you didn't notice



Was Monica actually fat in Friends?

The actor wore a fat suit to play the beloved character in flashback episodes of the sitcom, which aired between 1994 and 2004. Speaking in a new interview with Ellen DeGeneres, Cox said: “I loved playing overweight Monica because I felt so free.
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Why is Monica's hair so short in Season 4?

Season 4: Short, Choppy Layered Crop

Season 4 brought back another bob for Monica, after previously growing out her hair the past two seasons. Instead of sporting her shoulder-length tresses, she decided to cut them off again in favor of a choppy layered crop.
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Why does Monica look so different in the last season of Friends?

Jennifer Aniston's hair may be the most famous style from Friends. But as The Skincare Edit notes, it looks like Cox also had some fun experimenting with hair and makeup during the time she was filming Friends. Photos seem to reveal that for a time, she dyed her hair darker than its natural color.
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What episode of Friends was Rachel replaced?

During season nine episode 15, “The One With The Mugging”, Jennifer Aniston was replaced with a stand-in while her character Rachel was still in shot, and the understudy (?!) wasn't even wearing the same outfit.
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Who played Phoebe's body double?

With the clever camera tricks and use of Lisa Kudrow's actual sister as a double that made the on-screen scenes between Phoebe and Ursula Buffay in Friends possible explained, one might wonder why Phoebe's character had a twin in the first place.
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What is wrong with Monica's voice on Friends?

This goes hand in hand with the entry above - and while there is nothing wrong with a woman having a loud voice, Monica's voice went from fairly normal to shrieking, for no real reason. It was all part of the desire to exaggerate her high-strung nature, and make her seem even more intense...
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Did Monica in Friends have a double?

In a clip below, you can see the moment Monica is replaced with a body double in the season eight episode, 'The One With Rachel's Date'. In this particular episode, Phoebe visits Monica at Allesandro's, where she meets Monica's sous chef, Tim.
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Why was Jennifer Aniston upset at Friends reunion?

Jennifer Aniston had to walk out of the Friends reunion a number of times earlier this year as she fely overwhelmed at reliving her past. The actress, 52, revealed that she and her castmates were "naive" going into the HBO special and stated that: "Time travel is hard."
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Why did Jennifer Aniston let herself go season 9?

Aniston explained she had a “couple of issues” she was dealing with, and she wanted the series to end while people “still loved them”. She went on to explain she wasn't sure how much more of Rachel she had left in her, and she worried about the series' quality declining if they continued looking for new stories.
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Who wanted to quit Friends?

In 2004, after Friends concluded, Jennifer Aniston admitted in one of her interviews that she had a couple of issues because of which she didn't want to do another season of Friends. She was also apprehensive and wanted the sitcom to end while people still loved its characters.
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Was Rachel actually pregnant in Friends?

When Rachel gave birth to her baby girl in the sitcom, Courteney suffered a miscarriage in real life. In FRIENDS, Monica's character goes through a difficult time in starting a family with Chandler and in real-life too, Courteney went through a lot to become a parent.
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Was Phoebe really pregnant on Friends?

Lisa Kudrow was pregnant in real life when she was shooting the triplets storyline for Phoebe Buffay in Friends. The actor had earlier shared that the makers were not really into hiding the pregnancy so they wrote it into the show. The trailer of the Friends' reunion special episode sure left the sitcom fans emotional.
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Did Friends cast have plastic surgery?

Courteney Cox's Past With Cosmetic Surgeries

In the first season of 'Friends,' now 56-year-old actress Courteney Cox was 30 years old. While stating she has let most of her surgeries fade in recent years, Courteney has had several cosmetic facial procedures done.
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Who does Joey marry on Friends?

But she doesn't feel the same way about him and she ends up with Ross (David Schwimmer). The show ends with Joey staying single and Phoebe gets married to Mike Hannigan (Paul Rudd). Most fans still seemed to be happy for the characters. But there are some who might still wonder why Joey and Phoebe never happened.
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Who was the youngest in Friends?

Matthew Perry, born 19 August 1969, is the youngest of the six. He was 25 years old when they shot the show's pilot episode, 35 when the show came to an end and is now 51. His character Chandler Bing, meanwhile, was 26 at the start of the series, and it was implied his birthday was in early April.
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What fake name does Joey use in Friends?

Joey says that he is the guy, and Rachel says that it was a guy named Ken Adams, and Joey says he is Ken Adams, much to the gang's amusement.
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Why did they straighten Phoebe's hair?

Ironed on. To give her natural waves a boost, Phoebe would also sometimes bring in the styling wand to add some extra oomph, and the look was very va va voom.
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Does Rachel wear a wig in Friends?

Her experience with extensions led to Rachel's bob, Aniston revealed to InStyle. "The real reason I cut my hair? My real hair was getting thinned out again from all the extensions," she explained of the chin-skimming chop. "It was starting to look fake."
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Why is Monica so skinny in Friends?

Super skinny, during her time on Friends Courteney was plagued by rumors she had an eating disorder. While she insisted this was not the case, she later admitted that she'd gotten too thin. She said: “When I was on Friends, there was a period when I was really thin and I thought I looked great.
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