"Video"" was ranked 100 on ""TV Guide""'s 100 Greatest Episodes of All-Time. In 2013, ""Friends"" ranked no. 24 on the Writers Guild of America's 101 Best Written TV Series of All Time, and no. 28 on ""TV Guides 60 Best TV Series of All Time. Rachel Green flees her wedding day and finds childhood friend Monica Geller, a New York City chef. They become roommates, and Rachel joins Monica's group of single people in their mid-20s: Struggling actor Joey Tribbiani, business professional Chandler Bing, masseuse and musician Phoebe Buffay, and newly divorced palaeontologist Ross Geller, Monica's older brother. Rachel becomes"
"8, 2008. The son was named Romelo Montez Hill, named after Monica's younger brother. The pair parted ways in early 2010. In June 2010, Monica met NBA player Shannon Brown when looking for someone to play the love interest in her video for ""Love All Over Me"". Monica later announced her engagement to Brown via her Twitter account, posting a photo of a rose-cut diamond ring. On November 22, 2010, the couple married in a secret ceremony at their Los Angeles home. The marriage, however, did not become a matter of public record until January 21, 2011, when Brown told"
"two characters spend several years living together as roommates until Monica begins a romantic relationship with long-time neighbor and friend Chandler Bing, whom she marries. Unable to conceive children on their own, the couple eventually adopts twins and moves out of their apartment into a larger house in the suburbs. The creators' first choice for the role of Monica was comedian Janeane Garofalo. Cox had originally been offered the role of Rachel but declined in favor of playing the character's best friend Monica because she was drawn to her strong personality. Meanwhile, the role of Rachel went to actress Jennifer"
"recreated for those scenes. In 2013, ""TV Guide"" ranked the beginning of the Monica-Chandler affair as the third greatest twist of all time. The One with Ross's Wedding ""The One with Ross' Wedding"" is the two-part fourth-season finale of the American television sitcom ""Friends"", comprising the 96th and 97th episodes of the series overall. Originally broadcast by NBC on May 7, 1998, the episode features Ross, Monica, Joey, Chandler and later Rachel travelling to England to attend the wedding of Ross Geller (David Schwimmer) to his fiancée Emily (Helen Baxendale) in London. Ross and Emily's wedding vows are ruined when"
"when Monica's foster mother Gail Adamson discovered that Monica had slept with Gail's late husband Greg. Gail did not believe Monica's explanation that Greg had forced her into the affair and cut ties with Monica. Monica turned to Alan for support and agreed to marry him. Eventually Gail and Monica made amends. She was thrilled when Gail found happiness by finally agreeing to marry Lee Baldwin after months of putting him off. Monica became a close confidante to Laura who found that Monica treated her like an adult while her mother continuously treated her like a child. After their 1978"
"Monica Geller Monica E. Geller is a fictional character, one of the six main characters who appears on the American sitcom ""Friends"" (1994–2004). Created by David Crane and Marta Kauffman, and portrayed by actress Courteney Cox, Monica appears in each of the show's 236 episodes, from its premiere on September 24, 1994, to its finale on May 6, 2004. A chef known for her cleanliness, competitiveness and obsessive-compulsive nature, Monica is the younger sister of Ross Geller and best friend of Rachel Green, the latter of whom she invites to live with her after Rachel forsakes her own wedding. The"
"Peachtree TV reality show special ""Monica: The Single"" which tracked the recording of the song ""Still Standing"" along with her personal life and resulted in her own highly rated BET series """", containing a similar concept. Separated from rapper Rodney ""Rocko"" Hill, father of her first two children, Monica married professional basketball player Shannon Brown in November 2010. Their first child together, a daughter, was born in 2013. Monica has sold 5.3 million albums in the United States, and she is recognized as one of the most successful urban R&B female vocalists to emerge in the mid to late 1990s."
"Scott Silveri and Shana Goldberg-Meehan, who first observed the characters' chemistry in the season two episode ""The One Where Ross Finds Out"", in which an idle and unemployed Monica is temporarily acting as Chandler's personal trainer. However, Silveri's suggestion was initially vetoed by the other writers, who felt that it was simply too soon to introduce another main couple to ""Friends"" having just recently paired off Ross and Rachel. Following Ross and Rachel's break up in season three, the writers felt that the timing was just about right to officially introduce Monica and Chandler as a couple, deciding that ""Friends"""
"her. Gail remained unaware of this for many years but the two were able to reconcile once the truth came out. Monica was able to use her experience with Greg to help Laura Spencer when she was raped. Monica later had an affair with David Langston and gave birth to a daughter, Dawn, whom she gave up for adoption. Just prior to her arrival on GH, Monica had been engaged to Rick Webber. However, he had broken up with her and flew off to Africa where he became caught up in a civil war and was presumed dead. Monica turned"
"stepsons (via his marriage to Monica), Rodney Ramone Hill III and Romelo Montez Hill. Brown's younger brother Sterling also became an NBA player. Since 2010, Brown has been in a relationship with R&B singer Monica. The pair met in June 2010 when Brown was consulted to star as her love interest in the music video for the single ""Love All Over Me"". In October 2010, Monica confirmed her engagement to Brown via Twitter, posting a photo of her rose-cut diamond ring. On November 22, 2010, Monica and Brown were married in a secret ceremony at their Los Angeles home. The"
"Monica met rapper Rodney ""Rocko"" Hill, a former SWA officer and real estate manager, shortly after Weems's suicide, a time which she described as her ""weakest."" While the couple soon began dating in the fall of the same year, they ended their relationship in 2004. A few months later, Monica and Hill revived their relationship and she became pregnant with their first child. On May 21, 2005, she gave birth to their first son Rocko. Monica and Hill became engaged once again on Christmas Eve 2007, just a few days prior to the birth of their second child on January"
"The One with Monica and Chandler's Wedding ""The One with Monica and Chandler's Wedding"" is a double length episode of the television sitcom ""Friends"". It first aired on May 17, 2001 as the finale of season seven. It is usually broadcast in a one-hour slot and presented on DVD as one complete episode, but when the episodes are split the two parts are differentiated by the suffixes Part 1 and Part 2. For his guest appearance, Gary Oldman was nominated for the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Guest Actor in a Comedy Series. Monica is making a list of things"
"and Monica's apartment and Phoebe want to give the newly engaged couple some privacy. In a ""flashback"" episode, they are alone at a bar and start kissing, but the moment quickly passes when Ross keeps bumping his head. Phoebe also helps Ross on numerous occasions, ultimately making him realize that he loves Rachel and they both are meant to be together. Ross's best friend since college is Chandler. In college, they were in a band called ""Way/No Way"", and Ross blamed Chandler when he was caught smoking marijuana. Chandler becomes Ross's brother-in-law after he marries Monica. Though they are best"
"up getting married, which just goes to show that some one night stands are meant to last."" Monica and Ross' relationship was also influential. According to Kriti Tulsiani of IBNLive, the characters ""provide a perfect exception to the myth that one cannot find a best friend in their sibling particularly when they are of opposite sex ... they have broken all the conventional boundaries of a brother-sister relationship."" PopSugar ranked Monica and Ross fifth on the website's list of ""The 9 Best Sibling Relationships From '90s TV"" Immediately established as one of the show's primary settings, Monica's large Greenwich Village"
"of her own one day. While in England attending Ross' second wedding, to Emily (Helen Baxendale), Monica sleeps with Chandler. Initially supposed to have been a casual, one-time thing which grew more recurrent, Monica and Chandler eventually develop feelings for each other, but attempt to conceal it from their friends for as long as possible. After finally revealing their relationship to their friends, who are delighted by the news, Monica and Chandler marry. After several failed attempts to conceive a child of their own, Monica and Chandler discover that they are both infertile, and ultimately settle upon adoption as an"
"that he was actually Jason's son. She was heartbroken over Jake's death, and admonished both Jason and Elizabeth for denying her the right to know her grandson. She also yelled at Luke, the driver who accidentally hit Jake. After Jason is admitted to the hospital following a car accident, Monica finds out that he & Sam are engaged. She imagines a life where Jason never got in the car with A.J., and was still Jason Quartermaine. She's later glad to still have Jason as he is. When Jason eventually woke up, she helped him and Sam plan their wedding. She"
"Monica were initially meant to be the principal love connection of the show but was overshadowed by the Ross-Rachel relationship. In Episode 1.07 ""The One with the Blackout"", Phoebe blurted to Joey that Monica has a crush on him when he was moving in with Chandler. This idea was revisited in Season 7 when it is revealed that Monica initially meant to hit on Joey in London, and not Chandler. She states that it was because she was looking for something meaningless, never expecting to have found Chandler and fall in love with him. The concept of what their marriage"
"such actors as Robert De Niro and Steven Bauer, and directors Michael A. Nickles and Damian Chapa. Monica has remained single, though she had long-term, live-in relationship with Giuseppe Ferraro 2000/2005 in Madrid Spain. In 2004 she purchased a house in Madrid on her own. She has two younger brothers, twins named David and Albert, whom she loves as if they were her own children. In the same year their parents divorced, the two brothers were involved in a near-fatal car accident. Albert, who had been ejected from the car, was seriously injured and his brother David performed CPR and"
"ranked it television's 10th ""most ridiculous"" apartment, while ""The Village Voice"" placed it at number four in a similar article. Monica Geller Monica E. Geller is a fictional character, one of the six main characters who appears on the American sitcom ""Friends"" (1994–2004). Created by David Crane and Marta Kauffman, and portrayed by actress Courteney Cox, Monica appears in each of the show's 236 episodes, from its premiere on September 24, 1994, to its finale on May 6, 2004. A chef known for her cleanliness, competitiveness and obsessive-compulsive nature, Monica is the younger sister of Ross Geller and best friend"
"Chandler's main catchphrase is starting sentences with ""Could that BE any more..."" Chandler is afraid of commitment and had the fewest relationships out of all the Friends. Despite all this, he is the first one to have a committed marriage that doesn't end in divorce. At Ross' wedding in London, Monica and Chandler sleep together and decide to begin dating. They try to keep their relationship secret, as they are unsure about how the others would react. Eventually, however, they all find out. Their wedding takes place during the finale of season 7. In the final episode of the series,"
"was revealed to be still alive and Monica cheated on Jeff with Rick, while Jeff cheated on Monica with Heather Grant, with whom he had a son, Steve Webber. Jeff and Monica divorced in 1977. Throughout this time, Rick had grown close to Lesley Faulkner and planned to marry her. Monica was devastated, and tried to put a stop to it, blackmailing Lesley into turning down Rick's proposal. If Lesley didn't, Monica would tell the hospital board of Monica's affair with Rick, denying him the opportunity to become Chief of Cardiology at General Hospital. During the argument, a pregnant Lesley"
"Revered as a television icon, Monica famously addressed several topics that were rarely discussed in prime time television at the time, including safe sex, casual sex, and age disparity in relationships. Despite garnering positive reviews for her performance, Cox is the only main cast member to have never been nominated for an Emmy Award during ""Friends"" ten-year run. Hardworking chefMonica is introduced in the pilot as one of five close-knit friends who live in New York City, including her older brother Ross (David Schwimmer), neighbors Joey (Matt LeBlanc) and Chandler (Matthew Perry), and former roommate Phoebe (Lisa Kudrow). When her"
"to become friends with. However, within a year of her second marriage, Monica once again fell into Rick's arms and the two had a one-night stand. Monica was pregnant and didn't know who the father was. Tracy, who had made efforts to get to know her sister-in-law whom she respected as a physician, suspected the truth and plotted to have the unborn child declared illegitimate so her son Ned would inherit the Quartermaine estate. For many months, Monica was bedridden, and innocent student nurse Amy Vining her only companion. Monica was unaware that the gossipy Amy was totally enamored of"
"spa resort and ended up sleeping with one of the workers there, a young man named Ward. To Monica's surprise, Ward turned out to be Ned Ashton, the son of her sister-in-law, Tracy Quartermaine (who came back after a decade's absence) and thus, Alan's nephew. The two agreed to keep the affair a secret, but soon another secret of Monica's would come out. Monica's secret daughter, Dawn Winthrop turned up and began dating Ned. These two secrets proved at last to be the deathblow to Monica and Alan's marriage and the two divorced. Alan later married Lucy Coe in 1990."
"Monica and Chandler adopt twins, due to their inability to conceive. Monica's bossiness, neatness and overly competitive nature forces Chandler into several situations, such as her being unable to throw a game of tennis against Chandler's boss and Chandler hiding the fact that he is incredibly good at ping-pong so Monica won't enter them in doubles tournaments. Before his relationship with Monica, Chandler has an on-and-off relationship with Janice Hosenstein (Maggie Wheeler). She is a regular feature in his life, even though he regretted dating her and kept ending their relationship in season 1. He dates her again in season"
"by the RIAA with domestic shipments of 500,000 copies within a single month. With it success, the album and ""Everything to Me"" were nominated for a Grammy Award for Best R&B Album and Best Female R&B Vocal Performance, presented at the 53rd Grammy Awards in 2011. In March 2010, it was announced that Monica and Hill had split in October 2009, surrounding rumors that he cheated. Monica and NBA player Shannon Brown met in June 2010 when while they shot her music video for her second single ""Love All Over Me."" On November 22, 2010, Monica married Brown in a"
"search. When Monica comes back out of her room to begin getting ready for the wedding, Rachel distracts her by saying ""I'm never gonna get married"" and starts to cry. Meanwhile, Ross and Phoebe find a confused Chandler in his office. He tells them he loves Monica so much, and he doesn't want to hurt her, but he's afraid that becoming 'the Bings' will spell marital misery, maybe as bad as his parents. Ross convinces Chandler to go back to the apartment and begin getting ready, doing one thing at a time, not thinking about the goal. In Monica's apartment,"
"based the six main characters on some of their own friends and family; Monica is based on Kauffman herself. Observing that each main character was originally written as a ""one-note stereotype"", Jonathan Bernstein of ""The Daily Telegraph"" identified Monica as the group's ""uptight fun-killer"". When ""Friends"" first aired, the majority of its earliest episodes revolved around Monica, via whom each character appears to be interconnected; ""Friends"" stars the character's brother, her best friend, her former roommate and her two neighbors socializing in Monica's apartment. In the pilot, Monica is dumped almost immediately after sleeping with her new date Paul on"
"secret ceremony at their Los Angeles home, follow by a second wedding in front of close family on July 9, 2011. Also in 2010, Monica joined Trey Songz on his Passion, Pain & Pleasure Tour, her first North American concert tour in ten years. In 2011, Monica joined the debut season of NBC's reality talent show ""The Voice"" as an adviser to musician coach Cee Lo Green. In April 2012, her seventh studio album, ""New Life"", was released. It marked her first release with RCA, following the disbandment of J Records in October 2011. Reception for the album was generally"
"Gavilanes writing, ""She's the best kind of chef – neurotic in the most entertaining/productive way, and ""always"" cleans up the mess in her kitchen."" ""USA Today""'s Robert Bianco credits Monica and Chandler's relationship and their wedding in the episode ""The One With Monica and Chandler's Wedding"" with saving ""Friends"". Prior to the episode, the show had ""appeared to be in serious danger of out-staying its welcome."" Although admitting that the overall episode ""is not one of ""Friends""' best"", Bianco explained that ""The wedding changed all that, and in remarkable fashion."" While BuzzFeed ranked Monica and Chandler the 23rd best television"
"privileged, inexperienced childhood best friend Rachel (Jennifer Aniston), with whom she had long lost contact, suddenly arrives in her neighborhood unannounced as a runaway bride after abandoning her own wedding, Monica allows her to move in with her while she attempts to reorganize her life, and the two reconnect. Monica begins dating Dr. Richard Burke (Tom Selleck), an older man who is also one of her father's best friends and 21 years her senior. However, the couple mutually agrees to end their long-running relationship after realizing that Richard does not want children, while Monica aspires to eventually raise a family"
"with breast cancer in 1994. Monica became despondent and began pushing Alan away, though Alan fought hard to give Monica the support she needed. During this time, Monica befriended Paige Bowen, a fellow cancer patient. Monica was devastated when Paige died, but ended up adopting Paige's daughter, Emily. Finally, Monica went into remission, but she and Alan were drifting further and further apart. By 1995, A.J.'s alcoholism, which had been developing for several years, culminated in family tragedy when he and Jason were in a serious car accident. A.J. escaped relatively unhurt, but Jason was left with amnesia and brain"
"The One with Ross's Wedding ""The One with Ross' Wedding"" is the two-part fourth-season finale of the American television sitcom ""Friends"", comprising the 96th and 97th episodes of the series overall. Originally broadcast by NBC on May 7, 1998, the episode features Ross, Monica, Joey, Chandler and later Rachel travelling to England to attend the wedding of Ross Geller (David Schwimmer) to his fiancée Emily (Helen Baxendale) in London. Ross and Emily's wedding vows are ruined when Ross accidentally says ""I, Ross, take thee Rachel""; as the registrar asks Emily if he should continue, the episode ends on a cliffhanger"