Jennifer Aniston's father John Aniston went for audition for the role of Tex Baxter in The Mary Tyler Moore Show and he was rejected due to a invalid reason.
He told this during an interview with Television Academy Foundation (2019), “I’m sorry I didn’t get The Mary Tyler Moore Show".
"In the original script, he was described as ‘the Marcello Mastroianni of Minneapolis".
“I was told at the time, that the reason I didn’t get it is because they didn’t want any possibility of a romance between the character and Mary. If it was me, there would have been that possibility.”