Jennifer Aniston’s Inner Circle: Jimmy Kimmel, Courteney Cox and More Famous Friends 

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Jennifer Aniston’s Inner Circle: Jimmy Kimmel, Courteney Cox and More Famous Friends 

Jennifer Aniston loves to gush about her friendships, especially her close bond with her Friends costars Courteney Cox and Lisa Kudrow. “To be friends with Courteney is to be family with Courteney,” Aniston said at Cox’s Hollywood Walk of Fame ceremony in February 2023, which was also attended by Kudrow. “She was immediately inclusive — warm, loving, interested in everything about you. I was really nervous to meet her because I was a huge fan.” Aniston continued: “She instilled into all of us to support each other and to love one another, and that actors need to support and love one another not compete with one another. Those wise words have stayed with me and I learned them as a young 20-something-year-old actor. And that really set me on my path as a young woman and being able to have creative relationships that I cherish to this very day. She’s just such a really good human, an extraordinary friend.” Scroll down to get to know Aniston’s inner circle:

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Jennifer Aniston’s Inner Circle: Jimmy Kimmel, Courteney Cox and More Famous Friends 

Jennifer Aniston loves to gush about her friendships, especially her close bond with her Friends costars Courteney Cox and Lisa Kudrow. “To be friends with Courteney is to be family with Courteney,” Aniston said at Cox’s Hollywood Walk of Fame ceremony in February 2023, which was also attended by Kudrow. “She was immediately inclusive — warm, loving, interested in everything about you. I was really nervous to meet her because I was a huge fan.” Aniston continued: “She instilled into all of us to support each other and to love one another, and that actors need to support and love one another not compete with one another. Those wise words have stayed with me and I learned them as a young 20-something-year-old actor. And that really set me on my path as a young woman and being able to have creative relationships that I cherish to this very day. She’s just such a really good human, an extraordinary friend.” Scroll down to get to know Aniston’s inner circle:

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Jimmy Kimmel

Aniston’s close friend officiated her 2015 wedding to Justin Theroux.

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Courteney Cox

The BFFs met on the set of Friends in 1994 and they have remained close ever since. Aniston is also the godmother of Cox’s daughter, Coco, whom she shares with ex-husband David Arquette.

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Adam Sandler

The duo met at Jerry’s Famous Deli in the early ‘90s and have starred together in 2011’s Just Go With It and 2019’s Murder Mystery.

“He’s such a mensch and you just love each other, he takes you in, and I’m very much the same way, and then you become family,” Aniston told E! News in 2019. “It’s like second nature.”

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Lisa Kudrow

Kudrow and Aniston have been friends since meeting on the set of Friends in 1994 and have continued to be involved in each other’s lives.

“Please join me in celebrating one of my favorite people on the planet. LISA KUDROW!!” Aniston wrote via Instagram on Kudrow’s birthday in July 2023. “She’s been my friend and my family for nearly 30 incredible years. I cherish you….I love you, my sweet Floosh. One of the most talented comedians/actors I’ve had the great honor to work with for all these glorious years and more to come!”

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Reese Witherspoon

The pair met on the set of Friends when Witherspoon made a guest appearance on the series. Since then, the twosome have remained close friends and even appear together in The Morning Show.

“She was so sweet to me,” Witherspoon recalled her first meeting with Aniston in a 2019 Harper’s Bazaar interview. “I marveled at her ability to perform in front of a live audience like that with no nerves. They would change all the lines and she was just so effortlessly affable, bubbly, and sunny. We’ve been friends ever since.”

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Sandra Bullock

The duo have been friends for a long time — and even both dated actor Tate Donovan.

“[He] was a very patient human being, given that he dated us both,” Bullock joked in a February 2020 interview for Interview magazine. While Aniston added that he “seems to have a type,” describing Bullock as “talented, funny, introspective and generous.”

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Chelsea Handler

Handler and Aniston have been pals for years, even laughing off rumors of a falling out.

“Don’t read those magazines! Don’t believe any of it!” she said during an appearance on The Project in 2019. “We’re friends. Don’t worry… I love Jen.”

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Jason Bateman

The Horrible Bosses actor and Aniston have been friends for decades, with Aniston paying tribute to Bateman when he received his star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame in 2017.

“The part that I’m the luckiest that I get to witness is Jason Bateman the husband, the father, the fantastic friend and, as we lovingly call him, the grandfather,” she said during her speech.

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Chris McMillan

The hairstylist was the one that created Aniston’s famous hairstyle, “The Rachel,” back in the ‘90s and the twosome have remained close friends. McMillan now works with Aniston on The Morning Show and attends all of her infamous dinner parties.

“You’re one of the most passionate and kind human beings that I’ve had the good fortune of getting to know and I get to call you my family,” Aniston said while presenting McMillan with InStyle’s Hairstylist Of The Year award in 2018. “I feel blessed every day for that.”

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Andrea Bendewald 

The BFFs have been friends since they were 14 and the duo even have matching “11 11” wrist tattoos. 

“Happy birthday to my forever sister from another mister @andreabendewald … 37 years and counting. And the best is yet to come,” Aniston wrote via her Instagram Story in March 2021.