Character: Ross Geller
Friend Type: The sensitive one
Occupation: Palaeontologist
Ross is Monica's older brother who works at the
museum looking after dinosaur bones and similar
stuff.
He has so far been the only male member of the
gang to have been married, however his wife,
Carol, announced she was a lesbian and left him.
She later gave birth to their son, Ben, and married
her lesbian lover, Susan.
Ross has had a crush on Rachel since high school.
Rachel only found out about this when Ross was in
China, then was shattered to find he'd returned with
a new girlfriend, Julie.
Once Ross had found out that Rachel had a thing
about him too, they finally got together. He nearly
threw it all away when she discovered the list
Chandler suggested he make of both Rachel and
Julie's good and bad points to help him choose
between them.
Ross's relationship with Rachel seemed to be
going fine until Rachel made friends with Mark who
managed to get her a job at Bloomindales. Ross
became jealous, convinced that Rachel and Mark
were being a little too friendly, and this led to
Rachel insisting that they took a 'break'.
During the break, Ross managed to have a
one-nighter with Chloe - the Xerox girl - which of
course Rachel got to hear about.
Despite his best efforts to apologise, Rachel
continued to give Ross the cold-shoulder. Phoebe
subsequently matched him up with the once bald
Bonnie, which in turn made Rachel jealous enough
to convince Bonnie to shave her head again.