Matt LeBlanc shuts down any prospect of appearing with his Friends co-stars on-screen

It’s bad news for Friends fans as actor Matt LeBlanc has revealed why he won’t be appearing alongside his former co-stars anytime soon.

The 55-year-old actor played Joey Tribbiani in the beloved sitcom and even went off and did his own spin-off - imaginatively titled Joey - when Friends ended in 2004. 

Unlike Friends, which ran for ten seasons, Joey was quietly dropped after just two seasons. 

In more recent years, LeBlanc has appeared in Episodes and co-hosted Top Gear.

Meanwhile, his fellow Friends stars have also moved on with Jennifer Aniston currently filming The Morning Show and Courteney Cox starring in Shining Vale.

However, if you were hoping that LeBlanc might make a cheeky cameo in one of his co-star’s new shows, then you’re about to be disappointed.

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Speaking to Entertainment Tonight during a red carpet appearance recently, LeBlanc said: "I'm taking some time off right now.

"I'm just enjoying not having to do anything - it's been kinda nice. Sorry, I'll let you know when I do."

The six stars reunited last May for an HBO special almost two decades after the show ended. 

The special episode, which was hosted by James Corden, saw the cast revisited the old set, did table reads and reenactments, as well as showing never-before-seen footage from behind the scenes.

Speaking after the show aired, Aniston - who played Rachel Green in the show - admitted to finding the whole thing pretty overwhelming. 

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“It was all very jarring and, of course, you’ve got cameras everywhere and I’m already a little emotionally accessible, I guess you could say,” Aniston explained to The Hollywood Reporter. 

“So I had to walk out at certain points. I don’t know how they cut around it.”

She went on: “It just took me by surprise because it was like, ‘Hi, past, remember me? Remember how that sucked? You thought everything was in front of you and life was going to be just gorgeous and then you went through maybe the hardest time in your life?’

“I think we were just so naive walking into it, thinking, ‘How fun is this going to be? They’re putting the sets back together, exactly as they were’. 

“Then you get there and it’s like, ‘Oh right, I hadn’t thought about what was going on the last time I was actually here’.”

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Topics: Friends, Film and TV

Claire Reid

Claire is a journalist at UNILAD who, after dossing around for a few years, went to Liverpool John Moores University. She graduated with a degree in Journalism and a whole load of debt. When not writing words in exchange for money she is usually at home watching serial killer documentaries surrounded by cats.