เจนนิเฟอร์ อนิสตัน, คอร์ตนีย์ ค็อกซ์ และเพื่อนๆ คนอื่นๆ ร่วมไว้อาลัยแด่เจมส์ ไมเคิล ไทเลอร์ นักแสดงชื่อดังผู้ล่วงลับ
เจมส์ ไมเคิล ไทเลอร์ถูกอดีตเพื่อน คอสตาร์รำลึกถึงเจมส์ ไมเคิล ไทเลอร์หลังจากที่เขาเสียชีวิตจากการต่อสู้กับ มะเร็งต่อมลูกหมากระยะที่ 4เมื่อวันอาทิตย์ เขาอายุ 59 ปี
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"Friends would not have been the same without you," the actress wrote, posting a scene from an episode of Friends, as well as a headshot of Tyler's character on the series. "Thank you for the laughter you brought to the show and to all of our lives. You will be so missed #JamesMichaelTyler 💔."
The clip that Aniston, 52, shared came from Friends' series finale, where Tyler's Gunter confessed his love for Aniston's Rachel, bringing an end to the long-running gag about his crush on her that was featured throughout the show.
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Courteney Cox ยังให้เกียรติ Tyler โดยแบ่งปันภาพหัวเดียวกันของเขาจากชุดFriendsควบคู่ไปกับข้อความที่ใจดี "ขนาดของความกตัญญูที่คุณนำเข้ามาในห้องและแสดงให้เห็นทุกวันในชุดคือขนาดของความกตัญญูฉันถือสำหรับการรู้จัก" เธอเขียน "หลับให้สบายนะเจมส์ ♥️"
ที่เกี่ยวข้อง: เพื่อน' James Michael Tyler เสียชีวิตที่ 59 หลังการวินิจฉัยมะเร็งต่อมลูกหมากระยะที่ 4
Fellow Friends stars Lisa Kudrow , Matt LeBlanc and David Schwimmer also paid tribute to Tyler with sentimental posts on social media as well.
Sharing the same headshot photo as Cox, 57, and Aniston on Instagram, Kudrow, 58, wrote: "James Michael Tyler, we will miss you. Thank you for being there for us all. #jamesmichealtyler."
In his own remembrance, LeBlanc, 54, said, "We had a lot of laughs buddy. You will be missed. RIP my friend," alongside two shots — including one of him conversing with Tyler on the set of the popular NBC sitcom series.
Schwimmer, 54, meanwhile, also shared the same headshot of Tyler as his former castmates. "James, thank you for playing such a wonderful, unforgettable role in Friends and for being such a big hearted gentleman and all around mensch off screen," he wrote alongside the post. "You will be missed, buddy. #JamesMichaelTyler."
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Tyler, who famously starred on Friends for ten years across 150 episodes — and whose character was even included as the seventh Friend in the 2019 LEGO set that featured the iconic coffee shop where he worked — revealed his cancer diagnosis for the first time in mid-June, about three years after his treatment began in 2018.
"I've been dealing with that diagnosis for almost the past three years. ... It's stage 4 [now], late-stage cancer. So eventually, you know, it's gonna probably get me," Tyler shared on Today, noting at the time that he was undergoing chemotherapy.
Tyler also explained that he was placed on a hormone therapy that "worked amazingly" for a year or so, but "right at the time of the pandemic" last year the cancer "progressed" and spread throughout his body, affecting his spine, which led to paralysis of his lower body.
Up until his death, Tyler advocated for greater awareness and education regarding prostate cancer, emphasizing on Today that the illness is "easily treatable" if it's caught early . He said he hopes to "help save at least one life by coming out with this news" and encouraged people to get a PSA screening, which is a prostate-specific antigen test, to detect the disease early on.
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The news of his diagnosis came after Tyler appeared virtually on the HBO Max Friends reunion special , which premiered in May. The fan-favorite said he still wanted to be part of the event, even if not in-person.
"I wanted to be a part of that, and initially I was going to be on the stage, at least, with them, and be able to take part in all the festivities. It was bittersweet, honestly. I was very happy to be included. It was my decision not to be a part of that physically and make an appearance on Zoom, basically, because I didn't wanna bring a downer on it, you know?" he told Today. "... I didn't want to be like, 'Oh, and by the way, Gunther has cancer.'"
In addition to Friends, Tyler had various guest-starring roles on TV shows, including Sabrina the Teenage Witch in 2001 and Scrubs in 2005.
In 2013, he played the main lead in the series Modern Music. Despite undergoing treatment, the actor also starred in two short films — The Gesture and the Word and Processing — where he won best actor awards at multiple film festivals.
Per his official obituary, Tyler is survived by the love of his life, wife Jennifer Carno, "ever united in good times, in sickness, and for eternity."
