David Schwimmer revealed he called on producers of Friends to increase the diversity among its cast members, ‘campaigning’ for Ross Geller to date women of colour.

The 53-year-old starred as Ross throughout Friends’ entire 10 seasons and has often been hailed as the sitcom’s most problematic character who hasn’t aged well with millennials which caught onto the series after it found a new home on Netflix.

From his issues with a male many, several homophobic jibes and his aversion to son Ben holding a Barbie doll, there are many reasons Ross is perhaps the least popular of the Friends gang today – unless you talk to the fan who really rattled Rachel star Jennifer Aniston on the Ellen DeGeneres Show last week.

Among the many criticisms of Friends, its frightful shortage of non-white, non-heterosexual characters is pretty alarming.

Amid calls for a reboot, which haven’t simmered since Friend came to an end in 2004, David proposed to the Guardian: ‘Maybe there should be an all-black Friends or an all-Asian Friends, but I was well aware of the lack of diversity and I campaigned for years to have Ross date women of colour.

‘One of the first girlfriends I had on the show was an Asian American woman, and later I dated African American women. That was a very conscious push on my part.’