Jennifer Anistonhas long consideredPaul Ruddthe sexiest man alive.
The Golden Globe winner, 52, congratulated her longtime friend and collaborator, 52, Thursday on her Instagram Story, after Rudd was named PEOPLE’sSexiest Man Alive.
“This makes me so happy. We’ve ALWAYS known this, but Paul Rudd is officially @people’s Sexiest Man Alive!” Aniston wrote, sharing a video from Rudd’s photo shoot.
She also shared a still of the two of them cuddling in their 1998 romantic comedyThe Object of My Affection. “You don’t age, which is weird,” she wrote with the image. “But we still love you.”
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In addition toThe Object of My Affection, Aniston and Rudd starred together in the 2012 comedyWanderlust.
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The pair also shared the screen on the final two seasons ofFriends, in which Rudd played Phoebe’s (Lisa Kudrow) husband Mike Hannigan.
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“I hadn’t really revisited many of those episodes. But now that she’s watching it, it’s like, ‘Oh, I remember this,’ and I tell her some story about it,” Rudd told PEOPLE.
“I’m far enough away from some things now that I can allow myself to be a little nostalgic about it. But then she’ll just be like, ‘Well, you’re not Joey [Matt LeBlanc].'”
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“When I think about myself, I think of myself as a husband and a father — like, I’mthat,” Rudd told PEOPLE. “I just hang out with my family when I’m not working. That’s what I kind of like the most.”
source: people.com
