Just days after receiving an award - and holding a simultaneous Friends reunion with Courteney Cox and Lisa Kudrow - Jennifer Aniston was presented with yet another award this weekend.
The actress received the People's Icon of 2019 award, at the People's Choice Awards in Los Angeles on Sunday evening. Her frequent co-star Adam Sandler presented the 51-year-old with the gong and gushed about Aniston, when introducing her to the crowd.
After Sandler's sweet intro, Aniston uttered her gratitude, focusing on one particular TV show for serving as a catalyst for her hugely successful career.
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'If I have any claim to this word 'icon' it's only because I was on an iconic show, with an iconic cast and an iconic haircut,' she told the screaming crowd.
'Friends was truly the gift of a lifetime and I would not be standing up here without that amazing show, those amazing five other actors and an audience who stuck with us for a decade and through streaming services now... you believed in us and you believed in those very impossibly large apartments but you had to believe it but we were telling our story.'
Aniston credited the show for 'paving the way' for everything she's done since.
'Thank you for being on this journey with me and I love you, guys. Thank you for sticking by me,' an emotional Aniston told the crowd.
Last week, the star was joined by the two other thirds of the female Friends stars, Cox and Kudrow, at the SAG Patron of the Artists Awards.
Also posing for pictures with the trio backstage was Paul Rudd, who also should be counted as an honorary Friend as he did marry Phoebe 'Princess Consuela BannanaHammock' Buffay in the final series of the sitcom.
Since making her Instagram debut with a bang last month, Aniston has regularly weaved Friends content onto her page, most recently when paying tribute to her longtime hairdresser and friend Chris McMillan, she posted a major throwback to 1980s Rachel Green.
Keep it coming, Jen.
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Olivia Blair is Entertainment Editor (Luxury) at Hearst UK, working across ELLE, Esquire and Harper's Bazaar. Olivia covers all things entertainment and has interviewed the likes of Margot Robbie, Emma Stone, Michaela Coel and Ryan Gosling over the years.
