Welcome to our Channel Jennifer Aniston's forgotten romance with friends co-star revealed fans shocked to learn about Jennifer Aniston's past relationship Jennifer Aniston's past relationship with her friends co-star Tate Donovan has reservist surprising some fans who were unaware of the romance the two dated for two years after meeting in 1995 and later worked together on Friends where Tate guest stored as Joshua Beren a love interest for Jennifer's character Rachel Green Tate has spoken about the experience saying the only bummer was Jennifer and I were breaking up at the time and so that was tricky to sort of act and act like we are just meeting each other and falling in love or whatever interested in each other when we're sort of breaking up he added it was just tough in fact we had dated for 2 years before then and it was over by by the time we were on friends together fans have taken to Reddit to share their surprise at learning about the relationship with one saying I apologize if this was already common knowledge I genuinely had no idea and thought it was pretty interesting others have commented on the awkward Chemistry Between the two on the show with one fanw writing that makes Jenny a very good actress in the show she really sold Rachel's affection for Joshua