Jennifer Aniston was almost out from the tv sitcom Friends

Jennifer Aniston was almost out from the tv sitcom Friends because she was in several episodes of another new comedy called Muddling Through for a rival network before auditioning for Friends in 1994.

Producers also wanted to add a “seventh friend” into Friends. Austerlitz revealed, “The one major suggestion the network had was the addition of an older secondary character".

“The writers made a good-faith attempt, even casting the role, but hated the resulting script so much that they pleaded with NBC to drop the idea. NBC gave its permission and Pat the Cop was no longer.”

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