Finger-licking scene from Friends that made Agassi smash his tennis trophies
ANDRE Agassi smashed his prized Wimbledon cup and every tennis trophy he ever had in a jealous rage after watching his then girlfriend Brooke Shields film a scene for Friends.
Miss Shields revealed that the tennis star stormed off the set of the hit US comedy after watching her seductively lick the fingers of Joey, played by actor Matt LeBlanc.
The scene is one of the most popular among the show’s fans.
But Agassi claimed she had ‘made him look a fool’.
He then got in his car in Los Ange-
‘She made me look like a fool’
les and drove all the way home to Las Vegas, she wrote in her memoir There Was A Little Girl: The Real Story of Mother and Me.
‘Upon arrival he systematically smashed and destroyed every single trophy he had won, including Wimbledon and the US Open, never mind all the others,’ she said.
It took her three years to have all the trophies replaced after the 1995 incident, she wrote in the memoir, which will be published later this month.
Agassi, now 44, won Wimbledon in 1992 and went on to claim four Australian titles, two US Opens and the French Open in a glittering 20-year career.
Despite the flashpoint, the couple Touched a nerve: Brooke Shields and Matt LeBlanc in the 1995 scene married in 1997 – but divorced two not based in absolute truth.’ Miss years later. The day after the Shields started out working as a child wedding, Miss Shields wrote, she model and moved on to films and realised she had made a ‘mistake’. sitcoms in a career spanning more
She wrote: ‘ It hit me all of a than three decades. sudden. I did not want to be The actress has also briefly dated married… I wanted to be a bride but John Travolta, Liam Neeson and I shouldn’t have been married yet.’ John F Kennedy Jr, and was close
Miss Shields, 49, wrote that later friends with Michael Jackson. Agassi broke down and told her that She remarried in 2001 to television for the whole first part of their writer Chris Henchy, with whom she relationship he had been addicted has two daughters, Rowan ten, and to hard drugs. Grier, seven.
‘I was shocked but immediately got Agassi married German tennis star hurt and insulted that he had not Steffi Graf, now 45, in 2001 and they come to me at the time,’ she said. have two children.
‘I feared that our life together was