40+ TV & Film Best Friends Who Hated Each Other in Real Life

The first edition of Sex and the City aired more than two decades ago, and the show is known for its extravagant clothes and crushes. But the ongoing off-screen battle involving Sarah Jessica Parker (Carrie) and Kim Cattrall (Samantha) is arguably more contentious than some of the segments.

According to a source, Parker and Cattrall have long been at odds about money. Parker was promoted to showrunner in the second season, bringing her pay up to $300,000, prompting Cattrall to ask for a raise.

Isaiah Washington (Burke) was dismissed from Grey’s Anatomy in 2006 for using a derogatory word about his cast member T.R. Knight (O’Malley) just before a violent on-set dispute with Patrick Dempsey (Shepherd).

Knight chose to openly come out as gay after news of the incident appeared. After repeating the insult offstage at the Golden Globes in 2007, Washington rekindled the debate. In June 2007, ABC confirmed that the actor’s deal would not be renewed.

All through the six episodes of Gossip Girl, Serena and Blair had a good amount of catastrophes, including several mutual lovers, plots, and a physical cake battle. Despite this, they always emerged on the other part as allies.

The real humans behind the character (Lively and Meester), on the other hand, are not in the same boat. When reports began to circulate that the two stars couldn’t tolerate one another, Lively’s publicist did nothing to address the matter, releasing the comments in August 2010, “Blake and Leighton have never been and never claimed to be great friends. Blake goes on stage, completes her duties, and returns home.”

The greatest feud of the 1990s happened in the series Beverly Hills, 90210. In their filming days, Shannen Doherty (Walsh), who was known for being tough and aggressive on-set, was often at war with Jennie Garth (Taylor) and Tori Spelling (Martin).

In 2015, Spelling acknowledged that she persuaded her dad, Aaron Spelling, the series producer, to dismiss Doherty. Doherty and Garth allegedly had a fistfight, according to the True Tori actress.

Leonard Nimoy and William Shatner will go down in the history books as two of the most outstanding personalities in the Star Trek franchise and one of the most incredible pairings in all of Hollywood.

Shatner says that he and Nimoy conceived four days apart, began out as adversaries on stage before relaxing into several seasons as career friends and allies, like a couple of peculiar siblings.

While recording Fox’s melodic television show, the two female stars (Naya Rivera and Lea Michele) were constantly quarreling. In 2014, a show insider told reporters, “they’re usually cold to one another.” “Naya is envious of Lea’s role as the show’s lead…” Between them, there was a bit of grumbling and eye-rolling.

“They chat behind one other’s back – a great deal,” a second person said. Amber Riley, who plays Mercedes Jones on the show, was also another Glee actress who spoke out against Lea’s controversies. “I’m not trying to suggest Lea Michele is bigoted; that’s not what I’m meaning to say,” Amber said, adding that she “does not give a [blank]” about the controversy in more significant global concerns.

In the famous TV series, Desperate Housewives, the likes of Marcia Cross (Bree), Felicity Huffman (Lynette), and Nicollette Sheridan (Lynette) were not precisely pals with Teri Hatcher.

Teri, who played the role of Britt, was the informal leader of the collective group. Hatcher intended to be in the production center for a 2005 Vanity Fair cover with the entire ensemble, trying to stir up far more tension among the actresses. Hatcher was allegedly dubbed the “world’s rudest lady” by Sheridan.

A conflict between The Good Wife‘s principal female characters had been speculated for years, but it seemed to be proven in 2015. Panjabi, who portrayed Kalinda Sharma, and Margulies, who starred as Alicia Florrick, were on-screen BFFs until a treachery plotline in the second episode, after which their personalities seldom communicated.

They recorded the now-famous sequence individually because they couldn’t tolerate working with each other, and it was subsequently combined.

Ariana Grande and Victoria Justice met on the Nickelodeon program Victorious, where they both starred. Ariana was previously described as a “scene-stealer” by Victoria.

And unlike the entire cast, Ariana never requested Victoria to appear in her video clip, “Thank U, Next.” These two females were unable to develop a lasting friendship. While stories of a supposed beef have circulated over the decades, Victoria appears to be unfazed by them. “It’s a bit upsetting to watch how individuals like pitting women against one another,” she said.

It’s hard to picture someone despising Betty White, but her Golden Girls co-star Bea Arthur allegedly found her upbeat demeanor annoying.

Viewers know precisely how Bea Arthur thought about her Golden Girls co-star Betty White. This eventually led to Rue McClanahan’s years of slandering Bea for using an offensive word against Betty.

According to rumors, Selma Blair, who represented Charlie Sheen’s romantic lead on Anger Management, was dismissed by the movie’s actor and creator, Charlie Sheen. According to reports, the two fell out when Selma expressed her dissatisfaction with Charlie’s professionalism.

Blair criticized Sheen’s competitive spirit on the show, which shoots two seasons each week, and frequently sees Sheen with far more than 40 lines of dialogue each screenplay.

In the series of Gossip Girl, Serena and Blair are not the only individuals clashing! Taylor Momsen allegedly had an altercation with Leighton Meester because the Gossip Girl production team used several of Leighton’s music instead of Taylor’s music on the tv series.

Leighton’s tracks “Good Girls Go Bad” as well as “Somebody To Love” were featured in two seasons of Gossip Girl, and her video clip for “Somebody To Love” was also debuted on the CW show. They refused to use any of Momsen’s music.

The X-Files performers were always fighting off-camera while romancing one another on almost every episode. According to sources in 2008, David Duchovny (Fox) and Gillian Anderson (Dana) quarreled since they had to interact with one another so regularly throughout eight series.

“Familiarity begets contempt,” says one of the performers. He stated, “It has little to do with the other individual. We used to get into fights about anything else. We couldn’t tolerate being in the same room.”

This was a tumultuous romance. Chad Michael Murray and Sophia Bush wedded in 2005, during the second season of One Tree Hill, but divorced in less than six months.

They did, unfortunately, continue to appear beside one another in the CW series until Murray departed in 2009. Later, in 2018, she was questioned about their relationship. “Everyone was 22 and dumb, you know?” She joked about the marriage. “It wasn’t something I particularly wanted to do, but it’s all right.”

After their three-year romance finally ended, the Vampire Diaries actors allegedly had an amicable parting. Events started to change for the worst when Ian Somerhalder started courting Nina Dobrev’s longtime pal.

Based on a source close to the situation, “Nina left The Vampire Diaries since she considers being on stage with Ian now that they’ve broken up too uncomfortable… Nina isn’t looking for bigger parts. She simply cannot tolerate working on camera with Ian each day.”

Billy Gardell of Mike & Molly and his on-screen bride Melissa McCarthy are said to be at odds.

“Billy believes he is the true star of Mike & Molly, while Melissa is the center of attention… To make matters worse, Billy believes she enjoys it, and the animosity between them is increasing” according to one tabloid publication.

The on-screen pair’s spat began when James Franco tossed Busy Phillips to the floor without her permission or understanding during a performance in Freaks & Geeks. Philipps claims she told co-star Linda Cardellini about the purported event in tears, and Cardellini advised Philipps to tell her supervisor about it.

According to Phillips, Franco finally acknowledged after being ordered to do so by the show’s director and creators. Despite being asked to apologize, Philipps claims Franco was never penalized for his alleged actions.

Martin Lawrence and Tisha Campbell-Martin portrayed a happily married couple in the 1990s comedy, Martin. It was a contrasting scenario off-screen. During the fourth season, Tisha unexpectedly departed the program and launched a case against Martin, citing misconduct.

According to reports, Campbell, who portrayed Lawrence’s onstage spouse Gina on Martin from 1992 to 1997, accused Lawrence of “continuous and increasing [bad] behavior, and associated threats.” The case was resolved without going to court.

Fans cherished the fellowship-turned-sentiment among Luke and Lorelai on Gilmore Girls, however when the cameras quit rolling, the connection between Lauren Graham and Scott Patterson was thorny, best case scenario.

Lauren conceded in a meeting that the two were not companions. Graham, right up ’til today, keeps up with that any discussion of a fight is profoundly exaggerated. She demands that she and Patterson have an utterly incredible working relationship. The Gilmore Girls star conversed with TV Guide in 2007 about the relationship and set out to settle the tales.

Notwithstanding returning for a reboot in 2018, Will and Grace‘s stars Debra Messing and Megan Mullally, who depicted Grace and Karen, individually, didn’t get along on set, as indicated by different reports.

Bits of gossip whirled there was a continuous quarrel, which made Mullally avoid numerous scenes in the last season in 2020. Moreover, the co-stars followed other castmates via online media, however not one another.

Stacy London and Clinton Kelly have been dear companions for quite a long time. They came up together on What Not To Wear and have upheld each other for quite a long time.

However, in 2018, a fight broke out between them, causing Stacy to unfollow her on-screen friend Clinton on Twitter. The latter eventually mentioned that the Twitter block resembled a “smack in the face.”

Grande and McCurdy got their beginnings on Victorious and iCarly, separately. When both of those shows concluded, Nickelodeon chose to make Sam and Cat a display, including the two leads. This all went to a sudden stop when shocking photographs of McCurdy were spilled onto the web in March 2014.

The star avoided the Kid’s Choice Awards, which numerous individuals thought was an aftereffect of the hole. Notwithstanding, TMZ detailed that McCurdy didn’t go to the function since she discovered that Grande was paid a considerable sum more cash than she was for Sam and Cat.

At the point when The Hills was broadcasted in 2006, it turned into a social wonder. The breathtaking reality dramatization followed Laguna Beach alumna Lauren Conrad to the mean roads of Los Angeles.

Furthermore, that unscripted TV drama character is a young lady who had irrationally elevated standards for her companions. On the show, it appeared to be the best way to remain on Conrad’s good side was to vow devotion exclusively to her. Any aberrance from her desires prompted a sloshy club spat.

Despite their teenage years as besties on-screen, Bella Thorne has open up about what it resembled to be “set in opposition to” Zendaya when the pair chipped away at Disney Channel’s Shake It Up together in the mid-2010s — and what that treatment meant for the kinship she and Zendaya were attempting to frame.

In another meeting with US Weekly, the star conceded that the two previous Shake It Up stars weren’t at first companions when the series started shooting in 2010, and one gathering ultimately changed all that.

The Lucy Show, which continued from 1962 to 1968, comprised an explosive cast, including Lucille Ball herself and Vivian Vance, who was her co-star for the initial three seasons. Indeed, there was a touch of strain among Ball and Vance.

It began from the second she became Ethel Mertz for I Love Lucy, employed by Desi Arnaz. Several seasons in, one guaranteed that Vance was searching for more cash. However, Ball wasn’t up for dealings.

Fans of Fresh Prince did not expect the animosity between Will Smith and Janet Hubert. The entertainer, who played Aunt Viv on The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air from 1990 to 1993, was terminated for her imaginative contrasts with Smith. In 2011, she considered the entertainer an “egomaniac.”

Hubert followed Smith again in 2013 when she told OMG! Insider that he did “some appalling, loathsome things to me — they resembled terrible children, Will and Alfonso [Ribeiro].” Daphne Maxwell Reid swapped Hubert as the matron for the last three periods of the TV series.

Castle stars Stana Katic and Nathan Fillion played a married couple Richard Castle and Kate Beckett. However, sources claimed they had a significant rift in the background in April 2016. “Stana would go into her changing area and cry,” a source revealed to reporters.

“Nathan has been dreadful to Stana for quite a while.” Another insider added, “It went so crazy they made Stana and Nathan go to couples advising together.” While Katic’s rep denied she had any issues with her co-star, the entertainer declared she was leaving the show after eight seasons in April, and after a month, ABC chose not to reestablish the series.

After Kirk Cameron got some answers concerning Growing Pains cast Julie McCullough’s Playboy pin-up past, he didn’t need her showing up on the ’80s sitcom. After Cameron’s person, Mike Seaver, proposed to McCullough’s Julie Costello, he burst into the maker’s office and demanded there shouldn’t be a wedding.

The entertainer said Cameron was upset by her naked photographs, and that is why she just showed up on a small bunch of scenes on the ABC show, yet in his account, Cameron kept up with that her job was never intended to be a drawn-out character.

For five seasons, the hit 1980s show Moonlighting depended on why the two focal characters, investigators for hire Maddie Hayes and David Addison, continually quarreled as a method of concealing their exceptional physical allure to each other.

Notwithstanding, as Cybill Shepherd later disclosed to Entertainment Weekly, the off-screen connection between herself and co-star Bruce Willis was, to a greater degree, a disdainful circumstance: “It’s difficult to do a show and keep your associations with everyone. I recall at one point in the show; it had gotten to where we despise one another.”

It’s not easy to consider their sizzling on-screen science and ensuing genuine relationship. However, Ryan Gosling and Rachel McAdams didn’t get along while making The Notebook.

Things were terrible to such an extent that Gosling attempted to get McAdams eliminated from a set at a certain point. “They were truly not getting along one day on set. Truly not,” the film’s chief, Nick Cassavetes, told VH1. “What’s more, Ryan came to me, and 150 individuals are remaining in this enormous scene, and he says, ‘Scratch come here.'”

It was anything but a Game of Thrones-related break that caused the dramatization between these two. No, the justification for their hostility is heartfelt. Headey and Flynn dated in the mid-2000s, and sources near the couple have said that it finished so ineffectively that they can’t contact one another right up ’til the present time.

“Jerome and Lena aren’t friends anymore, and they are never in a similar room simultaneously,” an individual from the Game of Thrones group disclosed to The Telegraph. He went on to add that, “It’s a pity since they seemed to have fixed things up for some time, yet presently the word is they ought to be kept separated no matter what.”

Alyson Hannigan and Jason Segel’s How I Met Your Mother characters, Lily Aldrin and Marshall Eriksen, were the epitome of couple goals. Even though the co-stars got along incredibly, Hannigan had a severe no kissing strategy with her on-screen spouse.

Why? Since Segel is a smoker and Hannigan essentially couldn’t with that. “I can’t stand tobacco smoke. It resembles kissing an ashtray, and he’s attempting to be affable by having gum or mints, yet it doesn’t help,” she disclosed in 2008.

Julia Roberts and Nick Nolte are famous stars of the series I Love Trouble. Despite their lovey-dovey moments on-screen, these artists despised each other so much that they allegedly needed to film their scenes independently and use substitutes to make on-screen science in the 1994 film.

Roberts, who played Sabrina Peterson, later hammered Nolte (Peter Brackett) in The New York Times and said while he can be “beguiling and decent, he’s additionally totally sickening.” She likewise uncovered that the co-stars “gave each other trouble.”

Aniston was not excited when entertainer Jay Mohr beat down her then-sweetheart Tate Donovan to be her on-screen love interest in Picture Perfect. Mohr says, instead of taking her resentment out on the studio, Aniston took it out on him.

In a meeting from 2010, he clarified how it was one of the most exceedingly awful shooting encounters of his life. “Being on the arrangement of a film where the main lady was discontent with my essence and made it clear from the very beginning.”

We initially met Tisdale and Grabeel in the 2006 Disney melodic wonder High School Musical, where they featured as distinction hungry twins Sharpay and Ryan Evans. While the two might have appeared inseparable, the entertainers weren’t companions while recording the HSM establishment.

Tisdale left no stone on their relationship when they rejoined in 2017 on her YouTube channel. “We were not close. We were not old buddies—let’s face it. It’s been ten years, so that we can discuss it.” she laughingly conceded. “We loathed one another. Like, I’m completely serious.”

Milano and Doherty portrayed siblings as well as closest friends. Fans were heartbroken when Doherty’s role Prue was murdered off in the third season of Charmed because the three Halliwell siblings were as intimate as siblings can be.

“We didn’t get along,” Milano acknowledged the hatred. The production even attempted to bring in a counselor to resolve the conflict, but Milano and actress co-star Holly Marie Combs claim that this made things harder.

Of the entirety of the visitor appearances on ABC’s crush sitcom Ugly Betty, Lindsey Lohan’s run on the show may have been the most turbulent.

The entertainers allegedly didn’t coexist, with a source saying that “America couldn’t deal with Lindsay beating her to the punch.” There were even tales that America Ferrera campaigned to have Lohan’s curve cut off.

Crawford and Davis’ fight on the arrangement of What Ever Happened to Baby Jane? was notorious to the point that it was the subject of the principal period of Ryan Murphy’s collection series, Feud.

The show between the Hollywood legends was said to have begun when Crawford wedded Franchot Tone, who incidentally turned out to be Davis’ first love. “I have never excused her for that, and never will,” Davis once said to describe Crawford in a meeting years after the fact.

The well-known melodic, Singin’ in the Rain, caught hearts. However, it wasn’t a delight to make for a portion of its entertainers. In Reynolds’ journal, Unsinkable, she reviewed her experience on set with Kelly, expressing, “He came to practices and reprimanded all that I did and never gave me an expression of consolation.”

She additionally pointed out what it resembled when their characters kissed. In her journal, she said, “Quality took me firmly in his arms…and forced his tongue on me. ‘Eeew! What was that?’ I shrieked, breaking free from his grip and spitting.”

On a show, Joan Collins shared that the drama co-stars didn’t talk for a whole season. “[At] the People’s Choice Awards, we won all in all organizations, and we were informed that when we were being given the honor, it would have been given to John,” she said on the late-night television show.

“Be that as it may, they offered it to me. He didn’t do it that way. I said, ‘Gracious, many thanks, I will offer it to our intrepid chief,’ and he said, ‘She’s said enough,’ and that was it. What’s more, it was extremely terrible. I need to say. It wasn’t pleasant.”

Though family is a major element of the Fast and Furious franchise, it turns out that things aren’t as rosy in real life. Apparently, the off-screen relationship between Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson and Vin Diesel is quite the opposite of a brotherhood.

During Johnson’s last week of shooting The Fate of the Furious, the Hollywood star took to Instagram to name-call some of his male co-stars. It was also reported that Diesel forced producers to cut a post-credit scene from Fate that would’ve set up a spin-off for Johnson and Jason Statham.

We’ve already seen Alyssa Milano once on this list, thanks to her rocky relationship with co-star Shannen Doherty. It turns out, though, that things weren’t necessarily smooth-sailing when actress Rose McGowan replaced Doherty on the show.

Although their characters Paige (McGowan) and Phoebe (Milano) were as close as could be, their real-life relationship seems to be pretty bitter. According to a tweet that McGowan wrote in 2020, she “cried every time we got renewed because you [Alyssa] made that set toxic **.” Ouch!

2012’s Magic Mike is a comedy-drama that follows 19-year-old Adam (Alex Pettyfer), a handyman by day and male stripper by night. In the film, Mike (Channing Tatum) takes Adam under his wing. In real life, though, the actors’ relationship is pretty different. According to Pettyfer himself, “Channing Tatum does not like me. For many reasons. Many being my own fault.”

It turns out that Pettyfer had rented an apartment from Tatum’s friend and then moved out before paying for months worth of rent. Pettyfer then received an email from Tatum calling him out — and rightfully so.

When Iron Man was first released, it took the Marvel Cinematic Universe by storm. But, while everything seemed like peaches and roses onset of the first installment, things had soured by the time the sequel rolled around.

Terrence Howard, who played Colonel James “Rhodey” Rhodes in the first film, was replaced by Don Cheadle for Iron Man 2 after salary disputes. Howard blamed this on the Iron Man himself, Robert Downey Jr. According to Downey, however, “I had nothing to do with that decision.”

It’s no secret that droids C-3PO and R2-D2 didn’t always get along in the Star Wars films, but it was still evident that the two robots cared for each other. Unfortunately, the same cannot be said for the actors behind them — Kenny Baker and Anthony Daniels.

Despite the fact that they were the only two actors who had appeared in all of the franchise movies (up until Baker’s death in 2016), they just never connected. The two repeatedly took jabs at each other for years. Still, Daniels expressed his condolences on Twitter when Baker passed.

Buffy the Vampire Slayer was undoubtedly a massive television hit, running for seven seasons. Rumor has it, though, that this crime-fighting teen drama had its fair share of tension offscreen — specifically between Sarah Michelle Gellar who played Buffy Summers, and Alyson Hannigan who played Willow Rosenberg.

The problems apparently began when Gellar announced her departure from the show in a cover story for Entertainment Weekly where she admitted that starring on the show wasn’t always fun. According to Gellar herself, “There’ve been times where that’s been difficult…”

There’s no denying that Dirty Dancing is an absolute classic, with its catchy soundtrack and beautiful choreography. Anyone that’s seen the film will agree that Baby (Jennifer Grey) and dance instructor Johnny (Patrick Swayze) have incredible on-screen chemistry.

Offscreen, though, the relationship between the two was definitely rocky. Apparently, they would constantly argue before filming every scene. According to Grey, they did have a lot of tension but that’s what led to their sizzling on-screen chemistry. Since the release of the film, Grey has only had good things to say about her late co-star.

1983’s Terms of Endearment follows Aurora (Shirley MacLaine), a finicky woman who’s in search of true love while her daughter, Emma (Debra Winger), faces marital issues. These characters might have had a beautiful mother-daughter relationship on-screen but their real-life counterparts were reportedly at each other’s throats — and even got into numerous physical altercations!

During an interview with The New York Times in 1986, Winger didn’t bother refuting the rumors and even revealed, “I can’t deny that we fought.”

A continuation of the television series of the same name, Charlie’s Angels (2000) is an American action-comedy film. The movie features a tight-knit family of characters but behind the scenes, some of the relationships were less than amicable.

According to Lucy Liu (who played Alex Mundy), an altercation with Bill Murray (who played John Bosley) stemmed from a scene that had been tweaked without Murray’s knowledge. She went on to detail how, while filming the scene, Murray began to insult her by saying that she didn’t “deserve” to be there with Cameron Diaz and Drew Barrymore.

What I Like About You follows wild Holly (Amanda Bynes) and her conservative older sister Val (Jennie Garth). Naturally, like most sibling relationships, Holly and Val don’t always see eye-to-eye but at the end of the day, they love each other.

Unfortunately, the same can’t be said for the two actresses. Bynes and Garth reportedly clashed on set so much that Amanda once called Jennie the “meanest actress who ever walked onto a television set.” During a chat with Survivor host Jeff Probst, Garth revealed that she considered never acting again after the show wrapped.

It was more similar to Dustin Hoffman versus Meryl Streep rather than Kramer vs. Kramer. The book Her Again: Becoming Meryl Streep, which was released in April 2016, uncovered the extraordinary clash between Hoffman and Streep while recording the 1979 Oscar-winning movie.

Hoffman, who utilized strategy acting methods to depict Ted Kramer, slapped then-up-and-comer Streep (Joanna Kramer) across the face during a battle scene. The entertainer also provoked her about her late sweetheart, John Cazale, who died from a cellular breakdown in the lungs.

The on-screen closest companions thought that it was challenging to keep up those sentiments off-screen. In her diary, Miles to Go, Miley Cyrus shared that she and Emily Osment didn’t get along off-screen.

“The show felt genuine to me, and I needed my relationship with Lilly to feel genuine as well. I realized it didn’t need to—Broadway is the stage, yet I was disillusioned,” she said. The co-stars wound up working out their sentiments and are companions today. They, as of late, had a get-together over Instagram to praise ten years of Hannah Montana.

You would think when asked what it resembled to kiss your co-star, you would say something pleasant. However, Tony Curtis didn’t go that course. The entertainer told of his Some Like It Hot co-star, Marilyn Monroe, “It resembled kissing [a tyrant].”

Before recording the popular film, the pair had dated, yet the sentiments had changed when they began shooting. “She’d gone interesting. Her brain was everywhere,” he said. He then, at that point, talked about the scene in which two or three kisses on a yacht (envisioned here), saying, “It was horrendous. She almost stifled me to death by purposely staying her tongue down my throat into my windpipe.”

Although Jack and Charlie, both characters in the series, Lost, got together pretty smoothly, their real-life versions failed to reciprocate such love.

This surprised many viewers. In May 2012, through a Twitter Q&A, Monaghan was requested to add his friend and colleague co-star Fox to the social media platform. In his reaction, he didn’t mince words, publicly asserting, “He is a woman beater. Thank you, but no thanks.”

On the arrangement of Ridley Scott’s 1982 science fiction flick Blade Runner, Harrison Ford and Sean Young played darlings in an advanced Los Angeles.

Nonetheless, when the cameras quit rolling, the two apparently couldn’t stand one another. It got so awful that the film group nicknamed their adoration scene “the hate scene.”