As Rachel and Joshua on Friends, they were the couple that never quite made it, but in real life Jennifer Aniston and Tate Donovan dated for more than two years
Never mind Ross Geller; for a few episodes of Friends, it seemed like “Josh-ooh-ah!” might actually be the one for Rachel. In real life, though, Jennifer Aniston and Tate Donovan, who played her adorably oblivious curly-haired love interest during season four of the sitcom, were already breaking up. Let’s look back at Aniston’s relationship with the actor, now 61, who really seemed like he could be the one, just a few years before Brad Pitt was on the scene.
“On our first date, all we did was talk about our relationships,” Donovan told TV Guide in 1997, with Aniston adding: “We were like a mirror of each other.” There was one big difference, as Aniston said in the same interview: “I’m a New York City girl, and he’s a suburban Jersey boy.”The couple were an item for more than two years, and even moved in together, and even gave each other Irish commitment rings on their first anniversary in 1996.
“I’d been dating Jen for years, and I knew the cast,” he told The Independent in September 2024. “Every Friday night it was just like a ritual – I’d go over there and watch the taping, and it was always such a blast. Then Jen and I broke up, but we didn’t really tell anyone.” Donovan said that one cast member in particular was a great source of emotional support at the time — the late Matthew Perry. “He was such a champion of mine,” Donovan recalled. “He was so sweet. He was the only one who called me when me and Jen broke up. And we ran into each other throughout the years, and he was always so incredibly supportive. It meant so much to me because I was really heartbroken, and you don’t know how well you’re doing, and you’re just trying to survive at that point.
In TV Guide the same year, the pair were equally cute together. “She's the most unbelievably great…actress!” said Donovan. “I was going to say, 'thing that ever happened to me,' but I was just trying to make it topical.” And when Aniston said she didn’t want to discuss their relationship, he quipped: “I'm more unabashedly in love with her, I guess!”
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