Random TV Best Friends Who Hated Each Other In Real Life (12 items)

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  (#8) Julianna Margulies And Archie Panjabi On 'The Good Wife'

  In The Good Wife, attorney Alicia Florrick (Julianna Margulies) works closely alongside Kalinda Sharma (Archie Panjabi), the in-house private investigator for the law firm of Stern, Lockhart & Gardner. While Kalinda is private and stand-offish, they form a friendship that binds them together. However, midway through Season 4, fans noticed something odd: The actresses barely shared any scenes together. As the show continued, the number of scenes dwindled to zero. Considering they were both main characters and supposedly good friends, this was undeniably conspicuous. Rumors swirled that the reason was a deep rift between Margulies and Panjabi. By Season 6, these two once-close characters were exclusively communicating over the phone.

  While neither Margulies nor Panjabi has gone on record about what transpired between them, fans have pointed out that the characters' friendship, and Panjabi's importance to the plot, became less pronounced after Season 3 - when Margulies was first credited as a producer on the show.

  The rumors of bad blood seemed to be confirmed in the Season 6 finale, Panjabi's final episode. The characters of Alicia and Kalinda once again shared the screen, but the actors did not. In actuality, Margulies and Panjabi shot their scenes individually and were digitally added into frame to make it look like they filmed the scene together.

  Margulies has denied rumors of a feud and claims they shot the scene in split-screen because Panjabi had other commitments on the production of her TV series, The Fall. Panjabi all but called Margulies a liar when she took to Twitter to share, "@TheFallTV was not even in production at that time and I was in New York ready to film the scene!"
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  (#12) Dominic Monaghan And Matthew Fox On 'Lost'

  When Oceanic Flight 815 crashed on the mysterious island of ABC's hit series Lost, the band of survivors included doctor Jack Shepherd (Matthew Fox) and troubled rock star Charlie Pace (Dominic Monaghan). To solve the island's many mysteries and stay alive, the two had to quickly bond and find common ground. While they may not have been the two closest companions among the group, their fates were inexorably intertwined.

  The show came to an end in 2010, and as far as the public knew, there was no animosity between the two stars. On red carpets and during public appearances, Fox and Monaghan appeared friendly in front of the cameras. Fast-forward two years and Monaghan shocked the world with blatant, bold allegations against his former co-star.

  During a Twitter Q&A in 2012, a fan asked Monaghan to encourage Fox to join the social media platform, to which the Lord of the Rings actor responded, "He beats women. No thanks." When the same fan asked, "What about all those good times you had together?" Monaghan quickly fired back, "How do you know we ever did? You don’t know either of us. He beats women. Not isolated incidents. Often."

  Monaghan later doubled down on his allegations, tweeting, "An accusation is when you ‘claim’ someone did something wrong. I know. But hey little fan girl maybe want to get slapped."

  Fox vehemently denied the claims made against him by Monaghan - as well as by a female bus driver who claimed, in a lawsuit she later dropped, that Fox had hit her after denying him entry on a party bus in Cleveland, Ohio. He told Men's Fitness magazine:

  It’s been a long, trying year of sitting on my hands on a lot of negative [stuff] said about me, when they’re the furthest things from who I am. In the 46 years I’ve been breathing on this planet, I have never hit a woman before. Never have, never will... The Cleveland situation, the Monaghan situation [it] was a pile of sh*t, and I’m not gonna waste too much breath on that.
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  (#9) Ariana Grande And Victoria Justice On 'Victorious'

  Before Ariana Grande was the biggest name in pop music, she was a Nickelodeon star playing high-schooler Cat Valentine on Victorious. Meanwhile, Victoria Justice starred as the series lead, Tori Vega. Tori and Cat were best friends throughout all four seasons of the show, which ended with Grande's character being spun-off into the series Sam & Cat.

  Both actresses claim the real-life tension between them was low-key, with more importance given to their passing comments and innocuous social media posts than was really justified. However, it's hard to dispute some of the more blatant shade-throwing.

  Some fans blamed Sam & Cat for the demise of Victorious, but Grande suggested the opposite was true. When asked on social media why Victorious ended, Grande wrote in 2013:

  Sweetheart the only reason Victorious ended is because 1 girl didn't want to do it. She chose to do a solo tour instead of a cast tour. If we had done a cast tour Nickelodeon would have ordered another season of Victorious while Sam & Cat filmed simultaneously but she chose otherwise. I'm sick of this bs.

  While it might be a coincidence that Justice happened to go on her own solo music tour immediately after the conclusion of the series, Justice seemingly confirmed Grande's post was about her when she wrote, "Some people would throw some1 that they consider a friend under the bus just 2 make themselves look good. #StopBeingAPhony #IfTheyOnlyKnew."

  The stars' back-and-forth never became more confrontational than that, but their lack of a real-life friendship has been apparent in the years since the show has ended.
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  (#5) William Shatner And Leonard Nimoy On 'Star Trek'

  There may be no sci-fi friendship or partnership more enduring than that of Captain James T. Kirk and the Vulcan science officer Spock. Together, William Shatner and Leonard Nimoy pioneered science fiction television and popular culture aboard the starship Enterprise for three seasons and several movies. On the show, Kirk and Spock were trusted comrades in arms who put their personal differences aside to work together, live together, and explore together. It seems that Shatner and Nimoy's real-life friendship was just as complicated, and ultimately more tragic.

  Infamously, Shatner and Nimoy clashed from the very beginning of their time on the original Star Trek. Both were driven, dedicated actors looking to break through, and Spock's character proved to be far more popular than expected during the first season. Speaking with The Hollywood Reporter in February 2016, a year after Nimoy's passing, Shatner admitted that there were "fireworks," but his own issues weren't directed toward his co-star:

  I remember going to the producers and wondering whether they were going to change the thrust of the show as a result of the popularity of Spock. So my anxieties were never directed at Leonard per se, it was about "How was the show going to go?"

  The actors eventually formed a close friendship, and Shatner would even go on to describe Nimoy as the "the only friend I ever had." However, in his final years, Nimoy cut Shatner out of his life entirely, and Shatner said he never understood what led to the rift. According to the actor:

  I just don't know, and it is sad and it is permanent. I don't know why he stopped talking to me. I have a picture of him and me laughing in my office. I have the echo of the laughter that we had between us but that's all that I have.

  One possible reason for the rift is Shatner's attempt to get Nimoy to appear in a documentary called The Captains. In the doc, Shatner interviews actors who starred as captains in different Star Trek shows. He reportedly asked Nimoy to be in it, and the actor refused. Afterward, Shatner's cameraman apparently filmed footage of Nimoy at a fan convention without his permission. Perhaps that is the unfortunate reason behind the actors' late-in-life falling out. 
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  (#3) Blake Lively And Leighton Meester On 'Gossip Girl'

  At the Constance Billard School for Girls in Manhattan, Serena van der Woodsen (Blake Lively) and Blair Waldorf (Leighton Meester) weren't just two girls with aggressively-rich teenager names, they were best friends and shade-throwing frenemies. However, the facade of a sisterly bond kept them close. According to the Gossip Girl crew, however, the pair weren't friendly at all. 

  Executive producer Joshua Safran told Vanity Fair that the actresses were two wildly different people:

  Blake is very much in the moment. Blake knows what’s happening. She knows this movie’s coming out, this band is happening. You talk to Blake on a very contemporary level. Leighton was very removed and very quiet, and, after her scenes were done, she would wander the stage... Blake and Leighton were not friends. They were friendly, but they were not friends like Serena and Blair. Yet the second they’d be on set together, it’s as if they were.

  However, other sources on the set say the actresses' relationship was even more strained than just not being buddies when the cameras weren't rolling. According to a New York magazine exposé, Lively and Meester would "avoid each other like the plague" on set and expected their cast mates to "choose sides."
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  (#7) Nicollette Sheridan And Teri Hatcher On 'Desperate Housewives'

  While Desperate Housewives' Wisteria Lane was filled with drama, feuds, and nefarious deeds, one of the most notorious rivalries was between Edie Britt (Nicollette Sheridan) and Susan Mayer (Teri Hatcher). The characters weren't exactly friends, but their lives were inexorably intertwined on the show. Apparently, whatever animosity there was between Edie and Susan paled in comparison to the real-life hostility between Sheridan and Hatcher.

  Sheridan, according to reports, didn't get along with nearly any of her co-stars, or the show's creator, Mark Cherry. The feuding within the cast was so notorious that a Desperate Housewives cover shoot for an issue of Vanity Fair was captioned, "You wouldn't believe what it took just to get this photo!"

  Ultimately, Cherry decided to eliminate Sheridan's character. Writing off an actor or actress is a regular occurrence on TV shows - but in this case, Sheridan wasn't having it. She sued Cherry for wrongful dismissal.

  During the trial, Cherry took the stand and recounted some of the arguments that exploded on set during filming. As he recalled:

  There was a problem going on between Nicollette Sheridan and Teri Hatcher... they were furious with each other. Nicollette pulled me aside and told me that Teri Hatcher was the meanest woman in the world because of how she was acting.

  Cherry was prevented by Sheridan's lawyers from further recounting the feud in his testimony.

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