Lisa Kudrow working a booth selling environmental shopping bags at her son Julian’s school fair in Los Angeles.

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Lisa Kudrow is facing legal action from her former manager over unpaid commissions, according to the Hollywood Reporter.

A suit filed by Scott Howard in the Los Angeles Superior Court last Friday claims that the Friends actress has failed to pay him commissions owed despite her terminating his contract in 2007.

Howard became the Emmy winner’s manager in 1991 with an initial agreement that his commitment would represent ten percent of the actress’ earnings.

The pair agreed to modify their contract following the success of Friends, with Howard initially committing to forego commissions on Kudrow’s residual earnings and later dropping his commission rate to five per cent.

However, his legal action claims that since his firing in 2007, the 45-year-old actress has failed to pay him commissions owed for Friends and other work she performed while he was her manager.

While he has declined to seek a figure for the alleged lost earnings, he is seeking damages of at least $50,000.

Kudrow’s co-star in Friends, Matt Le Blanc, is also facing a lawsuit from his former manager.

Camille Cerio claimed in July that she is owed $1 million from the actor’s earnings, including his failed spinoff series Joey.

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It looks as if a movie adaptation of the massively popular TV series Friends could soon be hitting cinema screens.

According to the Daily Mail, the cast feel compelled to reprise their roles after the recent success of the Sex and the City movie, despite David Schwimmer previously claiming he would rather not play Ross again.

Schwimmer will be joined by Matthew Perry, Matt LeBlanc, Jennifer Aniston, Courteney Cox and Lisa Kudrow to begin filming “within the next 18 months”, says an insider.

“Jennifer, Courteney and the rest of the cast are keen to reprise their roles, under the right circumstances,” said a source.

“The box office success of Sex And The City has really got their wheels spinning about how a Friends film could be just as big, if done right.”

However, it has also been suggested that Jennifer Aniston was initially not as keen as other cast members to return, but the source noted the “huge payday” may have changed her mind.

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Former Friends star Lisa Kudrow has been offered the chance to return to a surefire TV hit after failing to make waves as a struggling actress. The beloved star, who played Phoebe in the hit sitcom, has been slated to star alongside Kate Walsh in the new Grey’s Anatomy spin-off.

Kudrow, whose first post-Friends show, The Comeback, was a flop (even though I totally LOVED it), lasting only a season, will play a quirky doctor on the new TV drama, according to sources.

That would be great!!