High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! "The One with the Rumor" is the ninth episode of the eighth season of the American television situation comedy Friends, which aired on NBC on November 22, 2001. It continues the series` annual Thanksgiving-themed episode tradition, and guest-stars cast member Jennifer Aniston`s then-husband Brad Pitt in the uncredited role of Will Colbert, who reveals that he and Ross (David Schwimmer) spread a rumor in high school that Rachel (Aniston) was a hermaphrodite.