Jennifer Aniston Feels Protective of David Schwimmer as He Dates Younger Woman

Busybody Jennifer Aniston is worried about another one of her Friends — David Schwimmer — after the love-bitten actor started dating a gal half his age, say sources.

“Jen can’t help meddling, and David means a great deal to her,” shares an insider. “She doesn’t think this is a good match!”

David, 58, has gone public with his new girlfriend, 29-year-old UCLA medical student Eliana Jolkovsky. The two lovebirds were recently spotted on a romantic date at Spago in Beverly Hills.

David has had about as many romantic ups and downs as Ross Geller, his love-challenged character on Friends. He has dated singer-actress Tina Barrett, rocker Gina Lee, Spanish actress Carla Alapont, actress Mili Avital and singer Natalie Imbruglia. His lone marriage, to artist Zoe Buckman, ended in divorce in 2017 after seven years and one child, Cleo, 13.

Though David’s rep denies our story, the source points out: “He keeps repeating the same mistake over and over, and Jen has watched him lurch from one relationship to another. She doesn’t want to see him hurt again and feels he’d be better off with someone his own age.”

In the wake of their costar Matthew Perry’s drug-related drowning in 2023, sources say Aniston, 55, has grown more “protective” of her sitcom castmates, adding: “She tends to involve herself in her friends’ business, and here she is doing it again.”

On the Friends reunion special in 2021, Jennifer and David admitted there were flirty sparks between them on the set, but David says they “never crossed that boundary” because one of them was “always in a relationship.”

Jennifer adds that they let their feelings “play out on TV” instead.

“They do have a history,” says our source. “But Jen swears her objection to his new girlfriend is not a case of jealousy. She just cares. That’s all.”