“Sopranos” star Drea de Matteo is pictured in the September issue of Esquire in her undies cooking pasta, an image that is bound to send thousands of Italian American men around the bend with desire. But what’s more shocking is this distressing disclosure: She had “never seen NBC’s monster hit “Friends” before she was cast in its spin-off, “Joey,” making her one of, like, 10 Americans who never watched that show.

We can only imagine the pain – and the shame – Jennifer Aniston, Courteney Cox and the gang must be feeling right now.