IT may be 30 years exactly since Friends first aired on TV, but Jennifer Aniston says she still misses the show every single day.

The actress, now 55, has starred in a string of Hollywood movies since playing Rachel Green in the hit Nineties ­sitcom, which she calls the “biggest gift” of her life.

But she says she doubts she will ever be as happy as she was then.

When asked what her favourite job has been during her glittering career, Jennifer said: “Obviously Friends — that’s a no-brainer.

“I would have to say that is number one.

“Every single day I miss the schedule of filming . . . it’s the best schedule ever on the planet.”

Jennifer also reveals she would be reluctant to do another TV sitcom because it could never rank up there with the Emmy, Golden Globe and Bafta-winning series.

She told the SmartLess podcast: “If I knew it would be the same experience as I had with those guys, yes, but I doubt that will ever happen.”

“Those guys” are Lisa Kudrow, 61, who played Phoebe Buffay; Courteney Cox, 60, who was Monica Geller; David Schwimmer, 57, who portrayed Monica’s brother Ross Geller; Matt LeBlanc, 57, as Joey Tribbiani; and Matthew Perry, the show’s iconic Chandler Bing, who died last year from a drug overdose.

Friends, which ran from 1994 to 2004, followed a tight-knit group of six friends in New York and remains one of the most successful TV shows of all time.

While they each received just $22,500 per episode when the sitcom launched, towards the end they made headlines the world over after negotiating $1million per instalment.

Today, the surviving former co-stars remain as close in real life as they were on screen.

Reflecting on the show’s heyday, Jennifer said: “It’s so strange to even think that it’s 30 years old, because I remember the day that it was going to premiere on television, on NBC.

“Me and Matthew Perry were having lunch somewhere and we knew Lisa was getting her hair coloured.

“So we ran into the hair salon and I snuck up and she was in the sink, the hair bowl.