--- title: Jennifer Aniston Pranks BBC Radio 1 Reporter: Video description: Friends and Horrible Bosses 2 star Jennifer Aniston pretends to give nightmare interview on BBC Radio 1 canonical: https://time.com/3605300/jennifer-aniston-prank-reporter-bbc-radio-1/ author: Melissa Locker article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2014-11-25T17:37:34.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-04-13T07:14:49.948Z og:title: Jennifer Aniston Pranks BBC Radio 1 Reporter: Video og:description: Nightmare for BBC Radio 1 reporter, a hilarious time for star of 'Friends' and 'Horrible Bosses 2' og:url: https://time.com/3605300/jennifer-aniston-prank-reporter-bbc-radio-1/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt3e6c0bfb09510279/69876ae755a8596fbaa8452a/jennifer-aniston-horrible-bosses-prank.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 1241 og:image:height: 698 og:image:alt: jennifer-aniston-horrible-bosses-prank og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Jennifer Aniston Pranks BBC Radio 1 Reporter: Video twitter:description: Nightmare for BBC Radio 1 reporter, a hilarious time for star of 'Friends' and 'Horrible Bosses 2' twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt3e6c0bfb09510279/69876ae755a8596fbaa8452a/jennifer-aniston-horrible-bosses-prank.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # Watch Jennifer Aniston Prank a Reporter > Sponsored content. 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One of the stops on her press tour was at [BBC Radio 1](https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC-FQUIVQ-bZiefzBiQAa8Fw), where she and reporter Chris Stark are well known to each other after an [adorably awkward interview](http://www.today.com/popculture/jennifer-aniston-runs-lovable-bbc-interviewer-who-hit-mila-kunis-6C10936004) with Stark went viral. (Stark is known for charmingly inept interviews—he famously almost[ asked Mila Kunis out on a date](http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2013/03/05/chris-stark-the-man-behind-bbc-s-hilarious-mila-kunis-interview-speaks.html) during the press tour for _Oz the Great and Powerful_.) This time around, though, the interview with Aniston doesn’t go nearly as smoothly. In fact, it’s awkward and uncomfortable, and Aniston seems downright offended as Stark asks her seemingly harmless questions about her character and her dating habits. That’s because, unbeknownst to Stark, Aniston is working with Scott Mills, one of his BBC Radio 1 coworkers, to pull a prank on the young reporter. It worked. _Read next:_ [_Jennifer Aniston and Lisa Kudrow Curse Each Other Out on Jimmy Kimmel Live!_](http://time.com/3604976/jennifer-aniston-lisa-kudrow-jimmy-kimmel-live-curse-off/?xid=time%5Freadnext) ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/3605300/jennifer-aniston-prank-reporter-bbc-radio-1/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/3605300/jennifer-aniston-prank-reporter-bbc-radio-1/"},"headline":"Watch Jennifer Aniston Prank a Reporter","datePublished":"2014-11-25T17:37:34.000Z","dateModified":"2026-04-13T07:14:49.948Z","description":"No talking points here","url":"https://time.com/3605300/jennifer-aniston-prank-reporter-bbc-radio-1/","keywords":["Newsfeed","movies","viral","Videos","Pranks","celebrity","Viral Videos","jennifer aniston"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt3e6c0bfb09510279/69876ae755a8596fbaa8452a/jennifer-aniston-horrible-bosses-prank.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Melissa Locker","jobTitle":"","url":"https://time.com/author/melissa-locker/"}],"articleSection":"","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt3e6c0bfb09510279/69876ae755a8596fbaa8452a/jennifer-aniston-horrible-bosses-prank.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675,"headline":"jennifer-aniston-horrible-bosses-prank","caption":"","creditText":"","representativeOfPage":true}],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/tag/time-section-newsfeed/","name":"Newsfeed"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/3605300/jennifer-aniston-prank-reporter-bbc-radio-1/","name":"Watch Jennifer Aniston Prank a Reporter"}}]}] ```