Rachel JENNIFER ANISTON
In 2004, our favourite girl-next-door said goodbye to the show and the character that made her a megastar and a style icon.
Of all the cast, Jen, now 52 – whose smooth skin and gorgeous hair are as enviable as ever – doesn’t seem to have aged! There are rumours she’s gone under the knife, but she’s always denied them, aside from a 2007 nose job to fix a ‘deviated septum’ – and those genes are clearly amazing. We’re jealous!
Though Friends was set to have 24 episodes in its last season, Jen’s movie career only made it possible to shoot 18, the last of which drew in 52.5 million US viewers and another 9.46 million here.
A year later, and after five years of marriage and one guest appearance on Friends, Brad Pitt ended things with America’s sweetheart, then embarking as we know on a relationship with his Mr and Mrs Smith co-star, Angelina Jolie.
Jen followed her own break-up with 2006’s The Break-Up, co-starring Vince Vaughn. The two briefly dated – after her romance with Pitt died out, Jen referring to Vince as her ‘defibrillator’. But it wasn’t to be, and by 2012, after working together on the film Wanderlust, Jen and actor Justin Theroux began dating and, shortly thereafter, were engaged. The two tied the knot at their Bel-Air home in 2015, though, after two years, called it quits due to ‘difference of opinion on where to live’.
Last year, Aniston won Outstanding Performance by a Female Actor in a Drama Series for her work in The Morning Show alongside Reese Witherspoon at the SAG Awards – but that’s not what made headlines everywhere the next morning. A friendly moment between Aniston and Brad Pitt backstage was photographed and sent the world into a whirlwind of Brad and Jen speculation, until all went quite over the thought of a looming Rachel and Ross reunion…