{"id":288533,"date":"2020-02-22T10:59:34","date_gmt":"2020-02-22T17:59:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/b1125196"},"modified":"2020-02-22T10:59:34","modified_gmt":"2020-02-22T17:59:34","slug":"these-celebs-couldnt-be-more-excited-about-the-friends-reunion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kidn\/music-news\/these-celebs-couldnt-be-more-excited-about-the-friends-reunion\/","title":{"rendered":"These Celebs Couldn&#8217;t Be More Excited About the Friends Reunion"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/akns-images.eonline.com\/eol_images\/Entire_Site\/2019629\/rs_600x600-190729072040-600-friends-cast-ch-072919.jpg?fit=around|600:467&amp;crop=600:467;center,top&amp;output-quality=90\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\"><\/div>\n<div id=\"video-int-txt-0\" data-hook=\"scrollable-block\" readability=\"46.25\">\n<section data-textblock-tracking=\"text-block-video-text\" data-swiftype-index=\"false\" readability=\"42.045454545455\">\n<p>No one was more excited about the news of the upcoming&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.eonline.com\/news\/1125097\/friends-reunion-coming-to-hbo-max-just-don-t-call-it-a-revival-or-reboot\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><em>Friends<\/em> reunion<\/a> than, well, everybody. And that includes Hollywood stars.<\/p>\n<p>Following months of rumors, WarnerMedia announced on Friday that the cast of the hit sitcom\u2014<strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.eonline.com\/news\/jennifer_aniston\">Jennifer Aniston<\/a><\/strong>,&nbsp;<strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.eonline.com\/news\/courteney_cox\">Courteney Cox<\/a><\/strong>,&nbsp;<strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.eonline.com\/news\/lisa_kudrow\">Lisa Kudrow<\/a><\/strong>,&nbsp;<strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.eonline.com\/news\/matt_leblanc\">Matt LeBlanc<\/a><\/strong>,&nbsp;<strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.eonline.com\/news\/matthew_perry\">Matthew Perry<\/a><\/strong> and&nbsp;<strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.eonline.com\/news\/david_schwimmer\">David Schwimmer<\/a><\/strong>\u2014will reunite for&nbsp;an untitled, unscripted special for the company&#8217;s&nbsp;new streaming service, HBO Max, which is set to launch in May. The cast members all posted the news on their Instagram pages, including Perry, who launched his just two weeks ago.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;EXCUSE ME?!&#8221;&nbsp;<em>Modern Family&nbsp;<\/em>star <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.eonline.com\/news\/sarah_hyland\">Sarah Hyland<\/a><\/strong> commented on Aniston&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/p\/B82FMKcBKHL\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">post<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Whoa.&nbsp;[fire emoji],&#8221; wrote&nbsp;<strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.eonline.com\/news\/elizabeth_banks\">Elizabeth Banks<\/a><\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;WHAT,&#8221; commented&nbsp;<strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.eonline.com\/news\/awkwafina\">Awkwafina<\/a><\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;EXPLAIN PLEASE,&#8221; wrote&nbsp;<strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.eonline.com\/news\/mindy_kaling\">Mindy Kaling<\/a><\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;WHAT?!!&#8221; wrote&nbsp;<strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.eonline.com\/news\/michelle_pfeiffer\">Michelle Pfeiffer<\/a><\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Ahhhhhhhhhh!! [three clapping emojis],&#8221; commented&nbsp;<strong>Jenna Dewan<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;HOLY COW!!! This is [100 emoji][star emoji],&#8221; wrote <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.eonline.com\/news\/reese_witherspoon\">Reese Witherspoon<\/a><\/strong>, Aniston&#8217;s co-star on the new Apple TV+ series&nbsp;<em>The Morning Show<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p><em>Queer Eye<\/em>&#8216;s&nbsp;<strong>Tan France<\/strong> commented on Cox&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/p\/B82EuiPDBLz\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">post<\/a>, &#8220;NEVER HAS &#8216;I CAN&#8217;T EVEN&#8217; BEEN MORE RELEVANT.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.eonline.com\/news\/david_spade\">David Spade<\/a><\/strong>, who is good friends with Aniston and Cox, joked on the latter star&#8217;s post, &#8220;I heard the new name is F**k Buddies. Is this true?&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/section>\n<\/div>\n<div id=\"text-2\" data-hook=\"scrollable-block\" readability=\"49.954268292683\">\n<section data-textblock-tracking=\"text-block-text-only\" data-swiftype-index=\"false\" readability=\"2.6524390243902\">\n<p>The <em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.wsj.com\/articles\/hbo-max-will-include-friends-reunion-special-11582322575\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Wall Street Journal<\/a>&nbsp;<\/em>reported that the six main stars&nbsp;are set to be paid&nbsp;between $2.25 million and $2.5 million each for their participation in the special.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<\/section>\n<\/div>\n<div id=\"text-4\" data-hook=\"scrollable-block\" readability=\"57\">\n<section data-textblock-tracking=\"text-block-text-only\" data-swiftype-index=\"false\" readability=\"4\">\n<p>HBO Max has also acquired the rights to stream all 10 seasons of&nbsp;<em>Friends<\/em>, which was most recently available on Netflix.<\/p>\n<\/section>\n<\/div>\n<div id=\"text-6\" data-hook=\"scrollable-block\" readability=\"61.5\">\n<section data-textblock-tracking=\"text-block-text-only\" data-swiftype-index=\"false\" readability=\"13\">\n<p>Since the sitcom ended its original run on NBC in 2014, members of the cast have remained friends and have reunited several times in mostly casual settings.<\/p>\n<p>The biggest&nbsp;<em>Friends<\/em> reunion took place in 2016; Aniston, Cox, Kudrow, LeBlanc and Schwimmer appeared on&nbsp;an&nbsp;NBC special&nbsp;dedicated to&nbsp;show director&nbsp;<strong>James Burrows<\/strong>. Perry, who was in London starring in a play,&nbsp;introduced his former cast mates via video.<\/p>\n<\/section>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.eonline.com\/news\/1125196\/these-celebs-couldn-t-be-more-excited-about-the-friends-reunion?cmpid=rss-000000-rssfeed-365-topstories&#038;utm_source=eonline&#038;utm_medium=rssfeeds&#038;utm_campaign=rss_topstories\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">via:: E! Online<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>No one was more excited about the news of the upcoming&nbsp;Friends reunion than, well, everybody. And that includes Hollywood stars. Following months of rumors, WarnerMedia announced on Friday that the cast of the hit sitcom\u2014Jennifer Aniston,&nbsp;Courteney Cox,&nbsp;Lisa Kudrow,&nbsp;Matt LeBlanc,&nbsp;Matthew Perry and&nbsp;David Schwimmer\u2014will reunite for&nbsp;an untitled, unscripted special for the company&#8217;s&nbsp;new streaming service, HBO Max, which [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[55],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-288533","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-music-news"],"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-09-28 12:56:15","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"distributor_meta":false,"distributor_terms":false,"distributor_media":false,"distributor_original_site_name":"KIDN - The Lift FM","distributor_original_site_url":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kidn","push-errors":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kidn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/288533","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kidn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kidn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kidn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kidn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=288533"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kidn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/288533\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kidn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=288533"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kidn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=288533"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kidn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=288533"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}