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Watch excruciating moment Matt LeBlanc dislocates shoulder in middle of Friends episode in unearthed reunion footage
THE Friends reunion showed the excruciating moment Matt LeBlanc dislocated his shoulder for real in the middle of a episode.
The Joey Tribbiani star was performing a slapstick stunt when he hurt himself in the season three episode, The One Where No One's Ready.
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The injury ended up getting written into the show by saying Joey fell off the bed.
The cast revealed how they used to all huddle in the corridor outside the apartment before the cameras started rolling.
However, on this one particular episode, they were forced to skip it - and Matt LeBlanc ended up with the injury.
Matt said: "There was one thing that we did every show that we didn't do that night before we started. We didn't do it that night."
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Courteney Cox, who played Monica Gellar, said: "The huddle?"
Matt replied: "That's the one time we didn't do it."
Lisa Kudrow (Phoebe Buffay) explained why they didn't do the huddle: "We were sort of like, 'We're taking too long, the audience has been waiting - let's just go.'"
She added: "It was sort of early on and then, after that, we'd be like, 'Do we need to do the huddle, and [Matt LeBlanc] would be like, 'Yeah, 'cause I don't want anything else falling off.'"
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Matt - and therefore Joey - were forced to wear a sling in subsequent scenes.
The highly-anticipated reunion has given David, Jennifer, Courteney, Lisa Kudrow, Matt LeBlanc, Matthew Perry a chance to reminisce about being part of one of the most popular shows of all-time.
is premiering exactly one year after its original air date due to the coronavirus pandemic.
Filming was to start in February 2020, but the cast were unable reunite until April this year when restrictions started to lift.
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The one-off episode was even filmed on the comedy's original sound stage, Stage 24, at Warner Bros. Studios in Burbank, California.
Friends delighted fans with 10 seasons that ran from 1994 to 2004.
Watch Friends: The Reunion on Sky One tonight [Thursday May 27] at 8pm or on Sky and NOW TV streaming services
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