{"id":35477,"date":"2019-11-12T15:49:04","date_gmt":"2019-11-12T15:49:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ismartnetwork.co.uk\/?p=35477"},"modified":"2019-11-12T15:49:04","modified_gmt":"2019-11-12T15:49:04","slug":"peoples-icon-jennifer-aniston-calls-friends-the-gift-of-a-lifetime-at-peoples-choice-awards","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ismartnetwork.co.uk\/?p=35477","title":{"rendered":"People&#8217;s Icon! Jennifer Aniston Calls Friends the &#8216;Gift of a Lifetime&#8217; at People&#8217;s Choice Awards"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"\/\/people.com\/tag\/jennifer-aniston\">Jennifer Aniston<\/a> is an icon! <\/p>\n<p>The beloved actress, 50, received the People&rsquo;s Icon Award on Sunday at the 2019 People&rsquo;s Choice Awards on Sunday from her close friend and <a href=\"\/\/www.netflix.com\/title\/80242619\">Murder Mystery<\/a> costar Adam Sandler, who introduced her as &ldquo;an incredible, caring role model with the biggest heart, &rdquo; adding, &ldquo;She&rsquo;s precisely the route you think she is, everybody.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;Thank you for this incredible honor. This town hurls out a lot of bestows, but the People&rsquo;s Choice, this has always been special to me. As actors, we don&rsquo;t do this for commentators or for one another, or to make out families proud, you are aware? We do this for the money, &rdquo; Aniston joked, pull heartens from the audience. &ldquo;No, I&rsquo;m just kidding, we do it for you guys, we really do, &rdquo; she said. &ldquo;None of us could do what we do if it was not for all of you, and you all have been so good to me.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>RELATED: <a href=\"\/\/people.com\/tv\/peoples-choice-awards-2019-winners-list\/\">People&rsquo;s Choice Awards 2019: See the Complete List of Winners<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The star added, &ldquo;If I have any claim to this word &#8216;icon, &rsquo; it&rsquo;s only because I was able to be on an iconic display, with an iconic cast, and an iconic haircut. Friends was truly &#8212; it was the gift of a lifetime, and I would not be standing up here without that amazing show, without those astonishing five other actors, and with an audience who fasten with us &#8230; You believes in us, &#8220;youve been&#8221; did, and you believed in those extremely impossibly huge apartments.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>To conclude her lecture, Aniston thanked her fans and advocates. &ldquo;You paved the lane for everything that I&rsquo;ve had a chance to do since and it feels so good, likewise, that I get to be back on television, where it all started, &rdquo; she said. &ldquo;Thank you for being on this journey with me, and merely, I love you guys.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>Aniston and Sandler also won comedy movie of 2019 for Murder Mystery.<\/p>\n<p>The bestows come as the actress is enjoying a celebrated return to TV with The Morning Show, likewise starring Reese Witherspoon. The longtime chums, who previously played sisters on Aniston&rsquo;s hit show Friends, play news anchors at a morning TV depict still reeling from the firing of its superstar( played by Steve Carell) after allegations of sex misconduct.<\/p>\n<p>Aniston recently proved her icon status when she sent followers into a tizzy by joining Instagram. The actress broke the site &#8212; which had a brief moment in time when devotees couldn&rsquo;t follow or understand her page &#8212; before becoming the fastest person to reach 1 million followers in just over five hours.<\/p>\n<p>The actress also dethroned one famous pair for the name of fastest to 1 million: <a href=\"\/\/people.com\/tag\/prince-harry\/\">Prince Harry<\/a> and <a href=\"\/\/people.com\/tag\/meghan-markle\/\">Meghan Markle<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Aniston established her debut on Instagram by sharing a selfie of herself with her Friends costars <a href=\"\/\/people.com\/tag\/lisa-kudrow\/\">Lisa Kudrow<\/a>, <a href=\"\/\/people.com\/tag\/courteney-cox\/\">Courteney Cox<\/a>, <a href=\"\/\/people.com\/tag\/matthew-perry\/\">Matthew Perry<\/a>, <a href=\"\/\/people.com\/tag\/david-schwimmer\/\">David Schwimmer<\/a> and <a href=\"\/\/people.com\/tag\/matt-le-blanc\/\">Matt LeBlanc<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The E! 2019 People&rsquo;s Choice Awards aired from the Barker Hangar in Santa Monica, California, and were broadcast live on E! <\/p>\n<div style=\"clear:both;\"><\/div>\n<p>Read more: <a href=\"https:\/\/people.com\/movies\/peoples-choice-awards-2019-jennifer-aniston-icon-award\/\">people.com<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jennifer Aniston is an icon! The beloved actress, 50, received the People&rsquo;s Icon Award on Sunday at the 2019 People&rsquo;s Choice Awards on Sunday from her close friend and Murder Mystery costar Adam Sandler, who introduced her as &ldquo;an incredible, caring role model with the biggest heart, &rdquo; adding, &ldquo;She&rsquo;s precisely the route you think &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":35478,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[13961,20265,3756,1241,16438,1101,1171,5868],"class_list":["post-35477","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","","category-uncategorized","tag-awards","tag-awards-shows","tag-celebrity","tag-entertainment","tag-movie-news","tag-movies","tag-news","tag-tv"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/ismartnetwork.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/jennifer-aniston931573573745.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ismartnetwork.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35477","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ismartnetwork.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ismartnetwork.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ismartnetwork.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ismartnetwork.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=35477"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ismartnetwork.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35477\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ismartnetwork.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/35478"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ismartnetwork.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=35477"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ismartnetwork.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=35477"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ismartnetwork.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=35477"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}