COURTNEY Cox has hinted that her former on-screen brother could be to blame for the fact that the Friends cast never meet up together.

The actress played Monica Geller in the long-running sitcom alongside David Schwimmer as her brother Ross, Jennifer Aniston as Rachel Green, Matthew Perry as Chandler Bing, Matt LeBlanc as Joey Tribbiani and Lisa Kudrow as Phoebe Buffay.

She told Yahoo! that despite efforts for them all to hang out together just like in the show, one Friend was holding things back.

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Ventriloquist Keith Harris, famous for his act with his puppet duck Orville, died yesterday aged 67, his agent said.

Robert C Kelly said Harris, whom he described as a “thoroughly decent man”, was first diagnosed with cancer in 2013 and became ill again in January.

He said: “I spoke to Keith most days, whether we had business to do or not. I think I laughed every single time we spoke."

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A prestigious award given to women who have made outstanding contributions in their field has an unlikely recipient… Miss Piggy.

The Muppets character joins a distinguished list of recipients of the Sackler Centre First Awards, at the Brooklyn Museum in the US. They include theatre director Julie Taymor and former Supreme Court Justice Sandra Day O’Connor.

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