‘Friends’ in China: The one where Ross’ ex-wife isn’t gay

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NEW YORK — The wildly popular sitcom “Friends” is back on China’s best-known streaming services but with some big changes to the script.

In the latest Chinese version, when Ross tells his parents that he has split from his wife, he doesn’t explain the reason: She is a lesbian living with another woman, is now pregnant and plans to raise the baby with her partner. Instead, the scene simply cuts to his parents’ stunned faces, and the plotline ends there.Joey’s suggestion of a trip to a strip club is translated in Chinese subtitles as “going out to have fun.

Even before the regulations went into effect in September, Chinese censors had already been hard at work. In the Chinese version of “Bohemian Rhapsody,” the Queen biopic, a crucial scene in which Freddie Mercury, the band’s lead singer, tells his fiancée that he is gay was removed. “Friends” is hugely popular in China, where at one point many major cities had look-alikes of Central Perk, the cafe that was a gathering point for the show’s characters.

The hashtag #FriendsDeleted was viewed more than 54 million times on Chinese social media site Weibo over the weekend, according to a CNN report. By Monday , it had been removed.

 

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