20 Mind-Blowing Facts You Never Knew About Friends
8. They Went Out Of Their Way To Not Publicise The Show
When Friends became a global smash hit, the cast soon realised that Burrow's prediction that they would soon find it impossible go unnoticed in public was actually an understatement. Matt LeBlanc had to move out of his apartment block when he became famous and David Schwimmer has described his girlfriend at the time literally being pushed out of the way by a group of female fans.
The actors soon found their faces gracing the covers of Entertainment Weekly, Rolling Stone and numerous other publications, and the demand was such that NBC started refusing press opportunities for fear of overexposure.
A Diet Coke commercial featuring the cast proved a low point that prompted a cutback on publicity before a potentially damaging backlash could gather momentum.