Friends is a sitcom about a group of friends in the New York City borough of Manhattan that was originally broadcast from 1994 to 2004. It was created by David Crane and Marta Kauffman, and produced by Kevin S. Bright, Marta Kauffman and David Crane. The show has been broadcast in more than one hundred countries and still continues to attract good ratings for its episodes in syndication. The final episode of the show was watched by an estimated US audience of 51.5 million.Friends was a multiple Emmy Award winning television program that received 56 various awards and a further 152 nominations.

Aniston has previously dated musician Adam Duritz,and was previously engaged to actor Tate Donovan before breaking up.Her high-profile relationship with actor Brad Pitt was frequently publicized in the press.She married Pitt on July 29, 2000, in a lavish Malibu wedding.For years their marriage was considered the rare Hollywood success,however rumors began circulating their relationship was on the rocks when Pitt showed up to his Oceans Twelve premiere without his wife.In early January 2005, the couple was seen vacationing in the Caribbean with her "Friends" co-star Courteney Cox and her husband, actor David Arquette,and photos on the beach showed them kissing and affectionate. They shocked their fans several days later when they announced their separation on January 7, 2005. Rumors that Pitt had fallen for actress Angelina Jolie began when they were filming the movie Mr. and Mrs. Smith. Jolie and Pitt both denied any claims of adultery, with Jolie declaring in an interview in 2005, "To be intimate with a married man, when my own father cheated on my mother, is not something I could forgive. I could not look at myself in the morning if I did that. I wouldn't be attracted to a man who would cheat on his wife."Pitt and Aniston were seen together publicly after announcing their separation, even at a dinner party for Aniston's thirty-six birthday in February, and friends of the couple had declared they were reconciling.Aniston, however, officially filed for divorce on March 25, 2005,which was finalized on October 2, 2005.