Everyone was shocked a few weeks ago to see pictures of a fully gray haired Matt LeBlanc out and about in the public eye again. But in truth..the now 43 year-old actor has been going gray since way back in his Friends days.

Six years after the end of the Friends and four after his spinoff Joey ended…he decided to go au naturel.

“I dyed my hair the whole time on ‘Friends,’” he admitted Thursday at a Television Critics’ Panel in Beverly Hills for his new Showtime series “Episodes.”

“I just was sick of doing it,” LeBlanc explained of darkening his hair.  “When ‘Joey’ ended, I took a lot of time off… I just really was kinda burned out. I just wanted to be a dad.”

When did Joey get so old?

No longer the Italian hottie we all loved in the 90′s on Friends…he has somehow morphed into a heavy-set Matt Lauer / Matthew Broderick mash-up.