Friends Reunion 2014: Central Perk Will Be a Lonely Place As All Friends Stars Say No to a Reunion; Jennifer Aniston Can't Be Convinced; Matt Le Blanc Doesn't Want to See `Old Chandler'

Friends Reunion 2014: It looks like the hoped-for "Friends" reunion rumors from the end of last year are finally being buried. A reunion of Jennifer Aniston, Matt Le Blanc, Matt Perry, Lisa Kudrow, Courteney Cox and David Schwimmer in their favorite coffee shop, Central Perk, is now flat latte.

Rumors that Jennifer Aniston was being "slowly convinced" to do a "Friends" reunion in 2014 to coincide with the 20th Anniversary of the show's debut also fizzed out as she went on to make "Cake" and "We're The Millers."

The Friends reunion rumors started when two fake posters claiming that "Friends" will have a reunion in 2014. The fake poster went viral on Twitter and Facebook. The poster depicted a Friends episode called "The One After the 10 Year Break."

Since the fan-made Friends poster went viral, so did rumors of a Friends reunion. As fast as the reunion speculation started, Friends cast members tried to squelch it. Matt LeBlanc was the latest. He said not to expect Friends to return in any form. No movie, no Thanksgiving Special.

Since "Friends" ended in 2004, Aniston has had a successful movie career, most recently in the movie "We're the Millers." When asked Parade asked Jennifer Aniston whether she watched reruns of her old show she said "Yes, I'll stop and watch, though not the whole thing. It's fun for a second-you're like, what's this one?"

During an appearance on England's "The One Show" to promote the next season of his new show "Episodes," Matt Le Blanc, who played Joey Tribbiani on "Friends," admitted "I watch it all the times. Can't get enough. It's on a loop at my house!"

Matt Le Blanc told "The One Show" that there won't be a Friends reunion in 2014. Matt LeBlanc, who is now playing on the Showtime series "Episodes," is worried that any Friends spinoff would not be as good as the original.

Le Blanc took time out of his Episodes promotion to tell the media there will be no movie reboot of Friends. He said "As far as I know, I spoke to David [Crane] about it, it's the case of 'the books better than the move'. "That show was about a finite period of time in life, after college and before your relationship and family stars, and where your friends are your support system, and that's what the magic of the show was, everyone goes through that and can relate to that."

In a previous interview, Le Blanc told Entertainment Weekly "I don't want to see old Joey. I don't want to see Chandler and Monica with their kids that are big now. I'd rather imagine that. Everyone's going to have a different vision of what those characters are like, so to have that materialise is going to disappoint most people... It's better to just let them think."

A source told OK! magazine "Since the show ended in 2004 it's been rare for all six of them to appear in public together."

David Schwimmer first denied rumors in 2008, saying "I'd like to say in regard to the rumors... there's never been any talk of a Friends film." In 2011, Schwimmer reiterated "I really love how it ended. I think it was kind of a perfect ending and I can't see any good reason to revisit it."

Friends co-creators Marta Kauffman and David Crane also shot down rumors saying "Honestly, I have to go back to: The show is over. What was at the heart of the show is done. And let's be honest, it's 20 years later," Kauffman told the mag. "Nobody looks like they did then. And you're going to spend the whole time going, 'Wow, he's aged. Or she's...'"

Crane said "If anyone wants Friends, turn on your TV! Amazingly, thank God, it's there. And these are all great actors that you're seeing all the time in other things. Marta and I've talked about this a lot: People say they want it, and the more that we say it's a bad idea, people [disagree]. But I think if we actually gave it to people, there would be such backlash."

Courteney Cox recently unfriended all her on The Late Show with David Letterman. Jennifer Aniston's BFF Courteney Cox said a "Friends" reunion is "not gonna happen."

Dave asked Cox if her former cast mates had any plans to have a Friends reunion, apologizing "You're sick of the question, aren't you?"

Courteney Cox, who played Monica Geller for 10 years, answered "Only because once you say, 'Well, I'd like it,' then they have to contact every other cast member and be like, 'Courteney's into it!' And then I get in trouble. It's not going to happen."

The star of Cougar Town continued "Let me tell you something: There's six friends and I've been trying to put together a cast dinner for 10 years. It doesn't happen. I can get the girls to come, maybe Matthew Perry. Matt LeBlanc canceled last time right at the last minute, Schwimmer lives here [in New York City], so it's just not gonna happen."On his Showtime series "Episodes," where he plays Matt LeBlanc, the actor, a version of himself who can't get past his "Friends" days, he's stuck on a show called "Pucks," which only got made on his name. And was ruined by Joey Tribbiani as more and more compromises were made to make the British writers' show more palatable to American audiences.

In 2009, Lisa Kudrow told US magazine "It would be fun, but I don't know. How? Why? Really?"

Last year, Kudrow told the LA Times "there was never a Friends movie. Ever. ... I've always known it's not happening. The creators have put them to rest. NBC has. I don't know who else needs to say, 'It's really not happening.'"

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