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

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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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  (#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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  (#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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  (#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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  (#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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