No Black FRIENDS? Reunion Special Faces Backlash for Not Featuring Any Black Celebrity

[hewontgo]

'Friends: The Reunion' is facing flak for not featuring any Black celebrities in its line up which includes 30 people including BTS, Malala Yousafzai, Justin Beiber and David Beckham.https://t.co/ec3EvZ3oYd
- News18 (@CNNnews18) May 16, 2021
The special episode has an impressive line-up of 30 guests

Comments

[la_fours]

Malala? What?

[pa_0205]

yeah...I'm side-eyeing that too. What's next, Greta Thunberg on the Office Ladies podcast?

[bellapisces]

"Lady!"

[itsalanisbitch]

You mean this wasn't real?

[spellgabbana]

i thought it was just a reunion of the cast? why the fuck are there guests anyway? god, this show never stops being annoying.

[genbu_no_miko24]

I’m assuming the guests are people who are fans of the show. At best it’s most likely glorified cameos.

But some were on the show like Reese Witherspoon. So she’s probably gonna add tidbits about her time on there.

[spellgabbana]

i figured but saying they're guest starring on a reunion is still strange to me.

[genbu_no_miko24]

Eh not really cause it’s a retrospective look-back and usually shows like that will invite famous fans of the show to mention favorite memories, episode, or highlight the impact of a show.

[kiss_my_undies]

It's fine, we don't mind.

[piratesswoop]

exactly lmao i want to know WHO was mad about this

[nomoneyfun]

If you click on the article, it's literally like eight tweets from people who are clearly just getting some jokes off! I HATE this kind of "journalism."

[tippythepoodle]

Most black people I know wouldn’t have been friends with them anyway.
Let them white in peace.

[aurorab0realis]

picking up where they left off i see

[josiefier]

The past guest stars - Gould, Selleck, Reese, etc. make sense. But the others? Are they that desperate for people to watch?

[kawaiiairbender]

I remember reading obe of the BTS members liked Friends. Maybe all these people are fans?

[sweetceci505]

yes the leader of the group always said he learned English watching friends, and Justin Bieber is a huge fan aswell. so i don't know if these people are supposed to perform or just talk about how great the show was

[kris_terror]

One of the producers was tweeting to BTS to manage expectations and that it's a very short moment, so I imagine it's probably like a short montage segment of celebs and figures saying what Friends meant to them. For BTS it's that one of the members learned English from repeatedly watching the show.