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12.01.2024 - 23:21 / dailyrecord.co.uk
A 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. It was part of my job to ensure everything was tidy and no rubbish was left around. I wasn’t sure what to do with them so just put them in my office drawer. I remember wondering which member of the cast they might have belonged to.”
The seller said she left Fountain Studios in 1999 and cleared her desk – including the scripts – into a big cardboard box mixed up with
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