THEY might look like best friends on camera, but behind the scenes these celebrities can’t stand each other.
Bitter bust-ups aren’t exactly rare for celebs, but usually disagreements are kept under wraps.
Here we look at some of the most dramatic celebrity feuds, from actors who refuse to be in the same room to the ones who got personal in online drama.
Sarah Jessica Parker and Kim Cattrall
These Sex and the City co-stars seemed to be great friends on their hit HBO show, which aired on Channel 4 in the late Nineties and early Noughties.
Over six saucy seasons, they scooped seven Emmys and eight Golden Globes, but cracks had been emerging towards the end of the TV show’s final run.
Things went from bad to worse after Kim asked to be paid £720,000 an episode, which was up from a reported £253,000.
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But Sarah, who was the executive producer, got an even higher wage.
Slowly cracks became chasms, and in 2018, things came to a head when Sarah expressed her sympathy in the wake of Kim’s brother taking his own life.
Kim wrote on Twitter: “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.
“You are not my family. You are not my friend. Stop exploiting our tragedy in order to restore your ‘nice girl’ persona.”
Kim later confirmed: “We’ve never been friends. We’ve been colleagues.”
The total breakdown in relations seemed to be sparked by Sarah “pressuring” Kim to take part in a third film, which was eventually scrapped before filming began.
Kim felt like she had been portrayed as a diva for saying “no” and added: “Sarah Jessica Parker could have been nicer. I don’t know what her issue is.”
Kim did go on to make a small cameo when in the And Just Like That reboot, but crucially, she didn’t come into contact with her frenemy.
Dannii Minogue and Sharon Osborne
This pair are well known to have not got along while filming the X-Factor together, but this spat led to a decades long feud.
Their argument reportedly stemmed from Dannii’s relationship with exec producer and head judge Simon Cowell.
Dannii did not deny flirting with Simon, but she denied any relationship, having confessed: “But that man could flirt with a book, a wall, anything.”
But Sharon couldn’t stand to sit next to the Australian singer as she confessed to Piers Morgan‘s Life Stories.
The former music manager admitted: “I didn’t hate her because hatred is very close to love and takes a lot of emotion and I don’t have that time for her.”
She added: “She was like an insect, a mosquito that wouldn’t go away.”
In her autobiography, Unbreakable, Sharon said that she found the time she spent together with Dannii as “an odious chore.”
Dannii eventually left the show in 2010, and there was clearly no love lost on her side of the argument either as she slammed Sharon in public as well.
She said: “Sharon announced to anyone who would listen that I was impossible to work with, that I was only on The X Factor because of my looks – not any visible talent or contribution to the entertainment industry – and Simon employed me only because he wanted to sleep with me.”
Cardi B and Nicki Minaj
Rumours of a feud began back in 2017 when Cardi B burst onto the rap scene with her hit track Bodak Yellow and she was compared Nicki Minaj.
But things continued to escalate when a scuffle broke out after Cardi approached Nicki for “spreading lies” in September 2018.
The pair were dressed in posh frocks when the altercation broke out at the New York Fashion Week Harper’s Bazaar party held at the Plaza. According to reports in TMZ, Cardi took off one of her red heels and threw it at Nicki – but the shoe missed as she was being protected by a large security guard.
The pair’s feud continued with a series of targeted remarks over the years, and Nicki even gave her fans the “green light” to retaliate against Cardi after previously asking them not to comment on her behalf.
She responded to a post saying, “Can we drag again or we still on blackout?” where Nicki responded “Yall got 15 mins. Green light.”
This then lead to a series of wild back and forths between the two stars, one in which neither directly tagged the other but both got incredibly personal and even referenced each other’s kids.
After Nicki called Cardi’s daughter, Kulture, “ugly” Cardi resonded: “B**ch you wish you could call my daughter ugly.. Kulture is beautiful and you know that. Your hate is so deep dark and nasty because your son nonverbal cuz you f**ked him up wit them drugs so you jealous of everybody kids and their happiness!!! B**CH WHERE TF YOU AT STOP TALKING.”
Eventually the social media spat came to an end with Cardi B having the last word and addressing Nicki Minaj‘s upbringing, past traumas and husband.
“I’m not throwing away my career and my endorsements going back and forth with wit words wit a possessed drug addict.. ILL SEE YOU WHEN I SEE YOU,” she ended her tirade.
Patrick Swayze and Jennifer Grey
Patrick Swayze and Jennifer Grey made movie magic when they starred as Johnny and Baby in the 1987 classic Dirty Dancing, but when the cameras weren’t rolling the duo had a rocking relationship.
“When we’re doing those dance sequences and she’s crying, and she’s giggling, those moments really work because they’re real.
“They just took pieces of Patrick and Jennifer, working together as attempting to be a dance team, and my frustration. My real frustration. I’m trying to keep this girl serious. I’m trying to keep her from crying, trying to keep her focused, to get past her fear and her ego,” he said.
Although they might not have been friends on set, it seems over the years the pair grew to appreciate one another.
Jennifer went on to open up about Patrick in her autobiography, Out of the Corner.
She wrote: “The same way Baby and Johnny were not supposed to be together… a natural match, right? And we weren’t a natural match.
“And the fact that we needed to be a natural match created a tension. Because normally when someone’s not a natural, you… both people move on, but we were forced to be together. And our being forced to be together created a kind of a synergy, or like a friction.”
Jennifer also revealed she would apologise to Patrick, who sadly passed away in 2009, if she had the opportunity.
“I would say, ‘I’m so sorry that I couldn’t just appreciate and luxuriate in who you were, instead of me wishing you were more like what I wanted you to be’,” she said.
Before he passed away, seemingly ending any bad blood:“One thing that worked beautifully was that it really was a teaching situation.”
Lena Headey and Jerome Flynn
Game of Thrones star Lena Headey refused to appear on screen with her ex and co-star Jerome Flynn.
Lena – ruthless queen Cersei Lannister and Jerome, who played bodyguard Bronn, got together before the show, but eagle-eyed fans spotted they never appeared in the same shot.
A show source told The Sun at the time: “Lena and Jerome have not filmed together due to a bad break-up.
“They kept the full extent of it secret but it was a very turbulent relationship and it has been very awkward on set.
“Lena has opened up to her trusted friends. She appears to have a genuine hate towards him.”
The pair first worked together in Soldier, Soldier back in 1993.
They were romantically linked in 2002, with Lena’s aunt even confirming their relationship.
Jerome once said: “We’re not a couple right now, people have seen us together and jumped to conclusions. I can’t rule out a relationship with her.”
But after Lena reportedly ended the affair in 2014, they kept their distance, and reps for both stars and HBO refused to comment at the time.
Florence Pugh and Olivia Wilde
During the filming of Don’t Worry Darling, which was directed by Olivia Wilde and starred Florence Pugh alongside Harry Styles, there was plenty of drama.
It all kicked off after Olivia told Variety that she had fired actor Shia LaBeouf, who was latter replaced by Harry, because of his “combative energy”.
But Shia has hit back with his own version of events, and has the receipts to back it up. He has released emails explaining his decision to leave the project, claiming he didn’t have time to rehearse with the cast.
A video Olivia sent him, begging him to reconsider is also at large, where she alluded to a disagreement between Shia and Florence and said: “I want to figure this out. You know, I think this might be a bit of a wake-up call for Miss Flo.”
After seemingly being dragged into the drama, Florence reportedly refused to do any interviews for the movie.
A source said: “Florence is disappointed with this narrative and she doesn’t want to be dragged into the squabbles between other talent.
“The movie is getting everyone talking for all the wrong reasons and she doesn’t want to fuel that any more by dealing with awkward questions.”
Meanwhile, US website PageSix reported that Olivia and Florence had fallen out over the director’s romance with Harry Styles.