{"id":2515813,"date":"2026-07-24T16:48:21","date_gmt":"2026-07-24T16:48:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/?p=2515813"},"modified":"2026-07-24T16:48:21","modified_gmt":"2026-07-24T16:48:21","slug":"andre-agassi-admitted-he-smashed-trophies-over-friends-cameo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/andre-agassi-admitted-he-smashed-trophies-over-friends-cameo\/","title":{"rendered":"Andre Agassi Admitted He Smashed Trophies Over Friends Cameo"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Andre Agassi wasn\u2019t shy about it: in his 2009 memoir, Open, he admitted that after watching his then-girlfriend Brooke Shields shoot a flirty scene with Joey, he went home and smashed every trophy he\u2019d ever won, including his Wimbledon and US Open titles. Shields backed up the story herself years later \u2014 and she wasn\u2019t the only Friends guest star left with bad memories of Central Perk.<\/p>\n

It would be hard for anyone born after 2000 to understand just how momentous Friends was for an entire generation. The show singlehandedly changed the course of sitcoms; naturally, everyone wanted to join the gang at Central Perk. Well, everyone but these 10 actors, who have come out in interviews to tell their fans how little they enjoyed their time in Friends.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s a theme even the show\u2019s own stars have acknowledged. In a June 2026 Actors on Actors<\/a> interview with Variety, Jennifer Aniston reminisced about how visibly nervous many of Friends\u2019 movie-star guest stars were on set \u2014 naming names like Brad Pitt, Bruce Willis, and Sean Penn \u2014 and admitted she \u201calways found it fascinating how nervous they were.\u201d Aniston wasn\u2019t talking about the actors on this list specifically, but the pattern clearly wasn\u2019t limited to one or two isolated cases.<\/p>\n

Tate Donovan: Filming With Ex-Girlfriend Jennifer Aniston Was \u201cHeartbreaking\u201d<\/strong><\/h2>\n
\n\"TateImage Credit: NBC\n<\/div>\n

You might remember Donovan as Joshua, Rachel\u2019s fleeting love interest in Season 4. In real life, however, Donovan and Anniston were just calling it quits and used the show as a way to cope with their transition from couple to friends. It didn\u2019t go as planned, and Donovan recalls the event as \u201cheartbreaking.\u201d<\/p>\n

Kathleen Turner Felt Unwelcome by the Tight-Knit Friends Cast<\/strong><\/h2>\n
\n\"KathleenImage Credit: Gravitas Ventures\n<\/div>\n

Turner played one of the show\u2019s most controversial characters: Chandler\u2019s post-transition father, Helena Handbasket. Turner later commented on how she didn\u2019t like working on the Friends set, as she would not feel welcomed by the tight-knit cast.<\/p>\n

Jennifer Grey Was Replaced After Calling Her Role Too Anxiety-Provoking<\/strong><\/h2>\n
\n\"JenniferImage Credit: Vestron Pictures\n<\/div>\n

Grey played Mindy, Rachel Green\u2019s maid-of-honor and former best friend, in the show\u2019s first season. She was set to return to Friends, but was ultimately replaced after she said working on the show was very anxiety-provoking.<\/p>\n

Fisher Stevens Admits He Was Rude to the Friends Cast Out of Nerves<\/strong><\/h2>\n
\n\"FisherImage Credit: Warner Bros.\n<\/div>\n

While Stevens doesn\u2019t regret his cameo, he laments the way he behaved on set. He says he behaved rudely, mostly due to being nervous or inexperienced with the sitcom format.<\/p>\n

Paul Rudd Says He Felt Like a \u201cProp\u201d in the Friends Finale<\/strong><\/h2>\n
\n\"PaulImage Credit: A24\n<\/div>\n

Rudd became an integral part of the show in its final episodes, but the Ant-Man star says he sometimes felt like a \u201cprop,\u201d saying that his character seemed a bit tacked on in the finale.<\/p>\n

John Stamos Was \u201cEmbarrassed\u201d by the Audience\u2019s Reaction to His Cameo<\/strong><\/h2>\n
\n\"JohnImage Credit: Netflix\n<\/div>\n

The Full House lead had a minor role as a sperm donor in a Season 9 episode. He expected cheers from the live audience, but was discouraged when he was received by a deafening silence instead. The experience \u201cembarrassed\u201d the veteran sitcom lead, souring his brief stint in the legendary show.<\/p>\n

Olivia Williams Called Joining Friends a \u201cHarrowing\u201d Experience<\/strong><\/h2>\n
\n\"OliviaImage Credit: FilmFour Productions\n<\/div>\n

The actress recalls the process of joining Friends as \u201charrowing\u201d. According to Williams, the producers wanted to alter everything about her looks to make her fit better under the Friends umbrella, and she recalls the experience as being an extremely stressful one.<\/p>\n

Brooke Shields\u2019 Cameo Reportedly Made Husband Andre Agassi Smash Trophies<\/strong><\/h2>\n
\n\"BrookeImage Credit: Universal Pictures\n<\/div>\n

Married to tennis player Andre Agassi at the time of her Friends cameo, the actress recalls how much the athlete loathed that her character had to flirt with Joey constantly. According to Shields, Agassi reportedly smashed trophies in a fit of rage after seeing her cameo.<\/p>\n

This isn\u2019t secondhand gossip \u2014 Agassi confirmed the story in his own memoir, and Shields gave <\/a>The New Yorker<\/a> more detail in 2023<\/a>, saying he stormed out of the taping and later told her she\u2019d \u201cmade a fool\u201d of him.<\/p>\n

Elle Macpherson Says She Wouldn\u2019t Have Done It If She Knew How Big Friends Would Get<\/strong><\/h2>\n
\n\"ElleImage Credit: 20th Century Fox\n<\/div>\n

Macpherson played Janine Lacroix, Joey\u2019s roommate, for five episodes. While the actress recognizes the opportunity of guest-starring in a show like Friends, she says she would have never done it if she knew just how big the series would get in its later seasons.<\/p>\n

Jean-Claude Van Damme Says He Felt Like a \u201cHam\u201d Friends Didn\u2019t Respect<\/strong><\/h2>\n
\n\"Jean-ClaudeImage Credit: Netflix\n<\/div>\n

If you ask the Friends<\/a> cast, Jean-Claude Van Damme<\/a> is one of the worst guest stars the show had, with rumors of inappropriate behavior casting a dark shadow over his cameo. If you ask Van Damme, however, he also didn\u2019t enjoy his time at Friends, saying he felt like a \u201cham\u201d in a show that didn\u2019t respect him at all.<\/p>\n

Van Damme\u2019s Friends cameo is back in the conversation for an unrelated reason this year, too: Prime Video has confirmed a sequel to his 2025 hit <\/a>Le Jardinier<\/a>, and the news has revived interest in the decades-old on-set complaints about his behavior during the show\u2019s Super Bowl episode.<\/p>\n

For more on Hollywood friendships that didn\u2019t survive the cameras, see our roundup of actors who hated each other in real life<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n

\u2018 The preceding article may include information circulated by third parties \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n

\u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source www.fortressofsolitude.co.za \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Andre Agassi wasn\u2019t shy about it: in his 2009 memoir, Open, he admitted that after watching his then-girlfriend Brooke Shields shoot a flirty scene with Joey, he went home and smashed every trophy he\u2019d ever won, including his Wimbledon and US Open titles. Shields backed up the story herself years later \u2014 and she wasn\u2019t […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2515815,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[25173],"tags":[473732,21751],"class_list":["post-2515813","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-artists","tag-actors-actresses","tag-celebrities"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/Andre-Agassi-Admitted-He-Smashed-Trophies-Over-Friends-Cameo.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2515813","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2515813"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2515813\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2515816,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2515813\/revisions\/2515816"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2515815"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2515813"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2515813"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2515813"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}