Matthew Perry, one of the stars of the television series Friends, has been found dead at his home aged 54.
Mr Perry, once one of the biggest television stars in the world, was discovered after apparently drowning in a hot tub at his home in the Los Angeles area.
A Los Angeles Police Department spokesman told The Telegraph that officers attended Mr Perry’s $6.8m mansion in the Pacific Palisades area of Los Angeles at 4.10pm on Friday afternoon and were conducting an investigation into his death.
TMZ, a celebrity news website, said that although Mr Perry has previously faced a public battle with drug addiction, no narcotics had been found at the scene.
Mr Perry played Chandler in all 234 episodes of the iconic sitcom Friends, which ran for 10 series from 1994 to 2004.
The show transformed his life, catapulting him and his co-stars to fame as it became one of the most successful shows in TV history, paying each of the five stars $1 million (£824,500) per episode by the end of tenth series.
