Friends scripts found in bin from Ross’s UK wedding episodes sell at auction
dailyrecord.co.ukA pair of TV scripts from hit US sitcom Friends, which were found in a bin 25 years ago, have sold at a UK auction for £22,000.The scripts, from The One With Ross’s Wedding Part I and Part II, were estimated to sell for between £600 and £800 before “crazy” global interest descended.A total of 219 bids were made from all over the world including the US, Germany, Spain, Australia, Ukraine, Dubai and Switzerland – while the eventual owner was an online international bidder.Auctioneers at Hanson Ross in Hertfordshire said they were “flabbergasted” by the “phenomenal global interest” in the scripts – which should have been destroyed straight after filming in 1998.The scripts were found by chance at London’s Fountain Studios in Wembley Park by a former staff member and laid in her bedside drawer for more than 20 years, the auction house said.“I used to work in admin support at Fountain Studios.
I never saw any of the Friends cast but I remember it was madly busy,” the 60-year-old retired seller, who lives in London, said.“There was a real buzz about the place and I did my best to help.
They needed a studio audience and I helped to distribute tickets to people who won a London radio station competition to watch Friends being filmed.
Only recently, I discovered a ticket inside one of the scripts.“I found them in a bin a couple of week’s after filming had finished.
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