FRIENDS REINVENTED
Friends reunion: From who’s in to who’s out, celeb guests and everything you need to know
Amy Jones
COULD you BE more excited? The much-anticipated reunion of Friends is almost here.
The update of the classic Nineties sitcom, Friends: The Reunion, will be available on the HBO Max streaming service from May 27 and will feature all its original cast Matthew Perry, Jennifer Aniston, Courteney Cox, Lisa Kudrow, Matt LeBlanc and David Schwimmer.
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The update of the sitcom, Friends: The Reunion, will be available on the HBO Max streaming service from May 27Credit: Getty
The news arrives after Matthew Perry previously tweeted that the special would air in March.
All the stars are coming back.
Jennifer Aniston (Rachel), Courteney Cox (Monica), Lisa Kudrow (Phoebe), Matt LeBlanc (Joey), Matthew Perry (Chandler), and David Schwimmer (Ross) will reunite at the original
Friends soundstage Stage 24, at the Warner Bros. Studio in Burbank to film. All six stars will also executive produce.
The Late Late Show writer Ben Winston will direct. He s also an executive producer, along with
Friends EPs Kevin Bright, Marta Kauffman, and David Crane; and Emma Conway and James Longman.
When the reunion news was announced, the leads all shared the same photo and caption on Instagram It s happening and tagged each other. (Good thing Aniston and Perry are now on the app.) The image, shot by Mark Seliger, is from the May 18, 1995 issue of
Lady Gaga will star in
Friends: The Reunion as part of her heterosexual outreach program.
The “Stupid Love” hitmaker will appear alongside all six members of the original cast and a number of special guests for the
Friends special.
Alongside Gaga, a vivid array of token straight men, such as James Corden, Justin Bieber and David Beckham, as well as BTS, Cara Delevingne, Mindy Kaling and Malala Yousafzai will appear.
HBO Max wrote on its Twitter account Thursday (13 May) “we’re going to need a bigger couch” as it confirmed that supporting stars Maggie Wheeler (Janice), James Michael Tyler (Gunther), Reese Witherspoon (Jill) and Tom Selleck (Richard) will also return.
In even better news, we don t have long to wait as the much-anticipated return of our six favourite characters will be happening at the end of this month.
Friends: The Reunion will be available on the HBO Max streaming service from 27 May after the sitcom s original cast was able to get together and film last month. All six members of the original cast - Matthew Perry (Chandler), Jennifer Aniston (Rachel), Courteney Cox (Monica), Lisa Kudrow (Phoebe), Matt LeBlanc (Joey) and David Schwimmer (Ross) - are set to take part.
In true Friends fashion, the whole cast simultaneously released the trailer for the reunion on their social media platforms on Thursday. A caption on the trailer teases the special as: The One Where They Get Back Together .