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

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  (#1) Kim Cattrall And Sarah Jessica Parker On 'Sex and the City'

  As Carrie Bradshaw and Samantha Jones, Sarah Jessica Parker and Kim Cattrall played upper-class New York City social mavens - part of an inseparable quartet of gal pals - over the course of six seasons and two feature films. However, behind the scenes, the two actresses were legitimate enemies. Reportedly, this was their dynamic for almost the entire length of the series.

  While many celeb feuds play out as a series of shady comments and back-handed remarks that dodge the question of rivalry, the battle between Cattrall and Parker has been a lot more explicit - at least on Cattrall's part. Overall, Parker has maintained that rumors of a bitter feud have been exaggerated or misreported, and she's maintained a facade of indifference. However, things jumped up a level in February 2016 when Cattrall's brother passed and Parker apparently sent her condolences.

  "I don't need your love or support at this tragic time @sarahjessicaparker," Cattrall wrote in an Instagram post. She added:

  My Mom asked me today, “When will that @sarahjessicaparker, that hypocrite, leave you alone?” Your continuous reaching out is a painful reminder of how cruel you really were then and now. Let me make this VERY clear. (If I haven’t already) You are not my family. You are not my friend. So I’m writing to tell you one last time to stop exploiting our tragedy in order to restore your "nice girl" persona. 

  Needless to say, it's unlikely fans will see Cattrall reprise her character in any potential Sex and the City sequels.
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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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  (#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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  (#4) Jennie Garth And Shannen Doherty On 'Beverly Hills, 90210'

  One of the most complex friendships on TV in the '90s was between Beverly Hills, 90210 residents Kelly Taylor (Jennie Garth) and Brenda Walsh (Shannen Doherty). As the new girl in a wildly different world, Brenda looked up to Kelly for her larger-than-life personality, while Kelly appreciated Brenda's grounded, measured outlook and sensibility. They had disagreements and occasional feuds, which were often followed by emotional reconciliations.

  When it came to actresses Garth and Doherty, their connection was mostly just filled with disagreements and feuds. In recent years, the pair have apparently been on much better terms. However, after the release of her 2014 memoir, Deep Thoughts From a Hollywood Blonde, Garth opened up about the feud.

  Speaking on why she clashed so frequently with Doherty, Garth said:

  We were locked in this sound stage for 14-16 hours every day... There were times when we loved each other and there were times when we wanted to claw each other's eyes out. It was more of just young girls finding their way and finding their individual voices. Shannen and I are both Aries women, we're both very strong, independent women, so we butt heads a lot.
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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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  (#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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  (#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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  (#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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  (#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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  (#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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  (#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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  (#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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