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

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  (#10) Bea Arthur And Betty White On 'The Golden Girls'

  When it came to the beloved quartet of besties on The Golden Girls, Dorothy Zbornak (Bea Arthur) and Rose Nylund (Betty White) were as close as could be. At times, their wildly different personalities put them at odds, but their bickering was more sisterly than anything else. Apparently, when the cameras weren't rolling, the actresses' real-life relationship was a bit more complicated.

  According to White, Arthur made her feelings toward her co-star fairly clear. During a 2011 panel discussion, White said Arthur was "not that fond" of her. "She found me a pain in the neck sometimes," she continued. "It was my positive attitude - and that made Bea mad sometimes. Sometimes if I was happy, she'd be furious!"

  Arthur's son, Matthew Saks, essentially confirmed this in an interview with Closer. According to him: 

  My mom unknowingly carried the attitude that it was fun to have somebody to be angry at... I think she felt she was more of an actress than Betty. Mom came from Broadway. Betty starred on a game show at one point.

  This led to some real tension in 1986 when White became the first of the show's main cast to earn an Emmy. While all four stars would eventually take home the honor during their time on the show, White's initial win really rubbed Arthur the wrong way - at least according to co-star Rue McClanahan, who played Blanche Devereaux.
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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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  (#2) Isaiah Washington and Patrick Dempsey On 'Grey's Anatomy'

  Two of the most influential and talented doctors to walk the halls of Seattle Grace Hospital were Preston Burke (Isaiah Washington) and Derek Shepherd (Patrick Dempsey). While they may have been professional rivals, their respect and appreciation for one another was undoubted, and Shepherd even saved Burke's hand from irreparable nerve damage after Burke was shot. However, in a controversial blow-up that played out in the headlines, Washington was fired and written off the show after allegedly using a homophobic slur toward another co-star, T.R. Knight, who played Dr. George O'Malley.

  Washington claims he was actually standing up for Knight against Dempsey. According to the actor:

  [Knight] had led me to believe that Patrick Dempsey was so... horrible to people in a two-and-a-half hour conversation on the plane. For two and a half hours, this boy talked my ear off [about] how horrible Patrick Dempsey is and how he needs to be removed from the show.

  Washington admitted to using a homophobic slur, but not toward Knight. Instead, he told Larry King that he yelled at Dempsey in Knight's defense, telling his co-star to stop treating Knight like a "B-word," a "P-word," and an "F-word." Dempsey later claimed that Washington didn't actually call Knight the inflammatory term and that Knight's version of the event was wrong, but the defense came after Washington had already been fired.
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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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  (#11) Shannen Doherty And Alyssa Milano On 'Charmed'

  As two of the three mystical Halliwell sisters, Phoebe (Alyssa Milano) and Prue (Shannen Doherty) battled the forces of evil alongside their sister Piper (Holly Marie Combs). They fought together, they laughed together, and they grew - as witches, as people, and as sisters. Off-camera, however, their relationship was less sisterly and more along the lines of outright disdain.

  According to sources on set, the tensions didn't begin right away. Doherty and Combs - who'd previously worked together - got along swimmingly, and were the first to be cast. Milano was hired to replace Lori Rom, who played Phoebe in the original pilot. Apparently, the trio had great chemistry through the first two seasons, but eventually, Milano and Doherty got on each other's nerves.

  The tension may have been due to Doherty's growing dissatisfaction with the direction of the show, or the same on-set chemistry issues that led to Doherty's high-profile fights with Jennie Garth on Beverly Hills, 90210. Eventually, this led to Prue being written off the show, and a previously unmentioned half-sister, Paige (Rose McGowan), joining the cast.

  "There were times when I'd come in and say, 'Good morning, Shannen,' and she didn't say anything to me," Milano later recalled. "There were times when she'd come in and say, 'Good morning, Alyssa,' and I wouldn't say anything to her."

  Years later, Doherty confirmed the reports of on-set tensions to Entertainment Tonight: "There was too much drama on the set and not enough passion for the work. You know, I'm 30 years old and I don't have time for drama in my life anymore."
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  (#6) Naya Rivera And Lea Michele On 'Glee'

  Rachel Berry (Lea Michele) was the brash, outspoken, straight-laced music nerd of Glee's McKinley High School, while Santana Lopez (Naya Rivera) was a popular, semi-vicious cheerleader. Their relationship began in social conflict, but through their time together in glee club, the pair's friendship blossomed over the course of their six seasons together.

  It seems that Michele and Rivera's off-screen relationship unfolded in the opposite manner, with them starting off on the right foot and slowly getting colder toward each other as the show progressed. For years, their off-screen rivalry was fodder for tabloid headlines. However, according to Rivera, while their combativeness was real, it was not as antagonistic as many speculated:

  One of the Glee writers once said that Lea and I were like two sides of the same battery and that about sums us up. We are both strong willed and competitive - not just with each other but with everyone - and that's not a good mixture. As Santana moved from a background character to one with bigger plot lines and more screen time... I think Rachel - erm, I mean Lea - didn't like sharing the spotlight.

  Apparently, by the end of the final season, the two weren't talking at all. "I'm not offended when people offer feedback or criticism, and if things get heated on set, I try to keep perspective," Rivera claimed in her 2016 memoir.

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