Jennifer Aniston, David Schwimmer let forbidden crush ‘play out on TV’

What can they are saying — they were each other’s lobsters!

Jennifer Aniston reminded followers Thursday in a resurfaced clip that she and her “Associates” co-star David Schwimmer had crushes on one another whereas filming the hit ’90s sitcom.

Aniston’s confession, which she first shared with Kelly Ripa and then-co-host Ryan Seacrest on “Reside with Kelly and Ryan” again in March, aired once more this week on ABC.

“You and David within the early years had a crush on one another,” Ripa mentioned to Aniston within the revisited second.

“Sure, we did,” Aniston confirmed. “We simply let it play out on TV.”

Seacrest then requested “The Morning Present” star if it was “bizarre” to kiss Schwimmer for the primary time on-camera.

“Nicely, no. It was fairly fulfilling, truly,” Aniston admitted.

Aniston and Schwimmer portrayed the on-again-off-again couple Rachel Inexperienced and Ross Geller from 1994 to 2004 on the hit NBC sitcom, although the age-old query of whether or not or not their characters had been “on a break” stays a heated debate in popular culture.

The actors first admitted to their mutual curiosity in one another throughout the “Associates: The Reunion” particular on Max in Might 2021.

“The primary season, I had a serious crush on Jen,” Schwimmer revealed throughout the much-hyped unscripted celebration. “In some unspecified time in the future, we had been each crushing arduous on one another — however it was like two ships passing [in the night] as a result of one in every of us was all the time in a relationship.”

Due to this fact, Schwimmer swore he and Aniston “by no means crossed that boundary” and solely acted on their chemistry on display.

Aniston backed up Schwimmer’s confession, even allotting particulars about their steamy on-set make-out periods — and whether or not or not their co-stars had been in on the long-simmering secret.

“I keep in mind saying at one level to David, ‘It’s going to be such a bummer if the primary time you and I truly kiss is … on nationwide tv!’ Certain sufficient, the primary time we kissed was in that espresso store,” Aniston mentioned. “So we simply channeled all of our adoration and love for one another into Ross and Rachel.”

“Associates” is obtainable to stream on Max.