Jennifer Aniston's past romance with her friends co-star Tate Donovan has recently come to light surprising many fans who were previously unaware of their relationship Aniston and Donovan dated for 2 years starting in 1995 their relationship continued until shortly before Donovan's guest appearance on friends as Joshua Bergen a love interest for Aniston's character Rachel Green Donovan has shared his perspective on the experience admitting that their breakup made the acting particularly challenging he noted 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 the time we were on friends together the Revelation has sparked a buzz among fans on Reddit with many expressing their surprise one user commented I apologize if this was already common knowledge I genuinely had no idea and thought it was pretty interesting others have reflected on the awkward Chemistry Between the two characters on the show with one fan observing that makes Jenny a very good actress in the show she really sold Rachel's affection for Joshua