MATT LEBLANC ‘I didn't feel like BEING FUNNY'

At the height of Friends mania, the man behind Joey Tribbiani almost turned his back on fame

- JACK WHITE

In 2004, the cast of Friends should have been celebrating the series finale becoming one of the highest-rated ever, with 52.5 million people tuning in to see the gang for the last time.

But that year Matt LeBlanc was forced to choose between the intense fame playing Joey Tribbiani for a decade had brought him and his daughter Marina Pearl, who was diagnosed with a rare brain disorder shortly after her birth.