{"id":9773,"date":"2023-11-04T01:45:24","date_gmt":"2023-11-04T05:45:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/usa.businessupturn.com\/?p=9773"},"modified":"2023-11-04T01:45:30","modified_gmt":"2023-11-04T05:45:30","slug":"matthew-perry-funeral-late-actor-laid-to-rest-as-friends-co-star-attend-the-last-rites","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/usa\/matthew-perry-funeral-late-actor-laid-to-rest-as-friends-co-star-attend-the-last-rites\/9773\/","title":{"rendered":"Matthew Perry funeral: Late actor laid to rest as FRIENDS co-stars attend the last rites"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Actor Matthew Perry, who died on Saturday at the age of 54, was laid to rest on Friday at a Los Angeles cemetery in a service attended by relatives and castmates from the hit 1990s television sitcom \u2018FRIENDS\u2019, reported multiple media outlets, citing photographs.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Friends co-stars attend Matthew Perry's funeral. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/Upsrn32k2N\">pic.twitter.com\/Upsrn32k2N<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Iyan Velji (@IyanVelji) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/IyanVelji\/status\/1720612363399827831?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">November 4, 2023<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Mourners gathered at the Forest Lawn cemetery in the Hollywood Hills neighbourhood of Los Angeles, which is less than a mile from Warner Bros Studio, where the sitcom was shot. The location was also the final resting place of numerous A-listers including Elizabeth Taylor, Michael Jackson, and Lucille Ball.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Matthew Perry's family departs from his funeral with heavy hearts. Our thoughts are with them during this difficult time. \ud83d\ude4f\u2764\ufe0f <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/kEVs7fUgXn\">pic.twitter.com\/kEVs7fUgXn<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Iris (@Iris_i_Life) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Iris_i_Life\/status\/1720633313243897896?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">November 4, 2023<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>https:\/\/twitter.com\/Mofoman360\/status\/1720674489887772730<\/p>\n<p>Perry, who played the character of awkward Chandler Bing on FRIENDS from 1994 to 2004, was found dead at his residence, generating an outpouring of grief from fans and fellow celebrities.<\/p>\n<p>The surviving five co-stars, Jennifer Aniston, Lisa Kudrow, Matt LeBlanc, Courtney Cox, and David Schumer, issued a joint statement to their fallen castmate describing his death as an \u201cunfathomable loss.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Actor Matthew Perry, who died on Saturday at the age of 54, was laid to rest on Friday at a\u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":175,"featured_media":9801,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[67],"tags":[2784],"class_list":["post-9773","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-celebrity-news","tag-matthew-perry-funeral"],"reading_time":"1 min read","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/usa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9773","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/usa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/usa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/usa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/175"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/usa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9773"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/usa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9773\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/usa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9801"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/usa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9773"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/usa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9773"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/usa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9773"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}