Practice English Speaking&Listening with: Best Friends On TV Shows Who Hated Each Other In Real Life

Who doesn't love a heartwarming portrait of best friendship?

However, a testament to the power of acting is the seeming chemistry of some of TV's "best

friends," when in reality, the actors playing those characters hate each other's guts.

Let's take a look at some of television's most notable frenemies!

Julianna Margulies and Archie Panjabi

Up through season two of The Good Wife, Margulies and Panjabi's characters were best friends,

until it was revealed that Panjabi's Kalinda had slept with Margulies' character's husband

in the past.

After that, the two appeared much less frequently on screen together.

"Does anyone ever surprise you?"

"No."

"Even me?"

"Especially you."

But according to Vogue, a long-rumored feud between the co-stars may have played a role

in the plot twist.

Although the actresses initially denied any problems on set, after Margulies confirmed

that the season six finale had been shot separately due to Panjabi filming The Fall at the same

time, Panjabi fired back, "The Fall was not even in production at that time and I was

in New York ready to film the scene!"

Uh, what?

Panjabi later tried to quell speculation, telling reporters,

"In terms of anything that happened on The Good Wife, I think it's only respectful for

it to stay on The Good Wife.

It was time for me, for many reasons, to unzip the boots and step into another show."

Was one of those reasons a cat-fight with Margulies?

We may never know for sure.

Janet Hubert and Will Smith

Will Smith and actress Janet Hubert played nephew and aunt on The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air,

until the third season of the show, when actress Daphne Maxwell Reid was swiftly brought in

as a replacement-Aunt Viv due to what E! described as, "creative differences."

"Oh, hey, Aunt Viv.

I didn't hear you pull up.

Where's Uncle Phil?"

"He's out back turning on the sprinklers."

"Will!"

So what's the truth about the aunt-swap?

Despite the chumminess on screen, Smith and Hubert couldn't stand each other in real life.

Smith said in a 1993 radio interview:

"I can say straight up that Janet Hubert wanted the show to be The Aunt Viv of Bel Air Show.

[…] She's mad now but she's been mad all along.

[...] No matter what, to her I'm just the Antichrist."

Hubert denied any wrongdoing and put the whole mess on Smith, telling TMZ in 2011,

"There will never be a reunion […] I will never do anything with an a**hole like Will

Smith.

[…] He is still an egomaniac and has not grown up."

...Well there for sure won't be a reunion with that Aunt Viv.

Jennie Garth and Shannen Doherty

While Beverly Hills 90210 was airing, non-stop drama played out both on- and off-screen.

Shannen Doherty and Jennie Garth, who played best friends, admittedly never got along while

they were co-stars.

"Brenda…"

"I can't believe this.

I can't believe you would do this to me!"

Garth wrote in her 2014 memoir Deep Thoughts From a Hollywood Blonde,

"[Shannen] had opinions about a lot of things, including the writing, the wardrobe, you name

it.

And she wasn't afraid to share them, even if it meant sounding like a complete and utter

bitch."

Garth also told E! News in 2014,

"There were times when we wanted to claw each other's eyes out."

Cast member Tori Spelling revealed to Lifetime that the two actresses were so over each other

that they even got into a physical altercation (allegedly due to Doherty pulling Garth's

skirt up during shooting).

Classic 90210.

Stana Katic and Nathan Fillion

When news broke that ABC had canceled Castle in May 2016, Us Weekly quickly seized on rumors

that co-stars Stana Katic and Nathan Fillion (who played on-screen spouses) pretty much

hated each other during the entire time.

"Y'know there is one, inexplicable, mysterious phenomenon I still believe in… us."

A source told the magazine,

"Stana Katic and Nathan Fillion completely despise each other.

[...] They will not speak when they are off set, and this has been going on for seasons

now."

A second source also reported that things got so bad, the actors attended counseling,

with Katic appearing in tears on set.

According to People, by the show's end,

"The two were basically not speaking to each other if it wasn't in character."

Fun!

William Shatner and Leonard Nimoy

This bitter off-screen feud between on-screen BFFs dates all the way back to the '60s.

According to The Daily Express, shortly after Star Trek made its U.S. debut in 1966, tensions

between the show's stars, William Shatner and Leonard Nimoy, exploded as a result of

Shatner's attempts to be the sole star of the show.

Nimoy reportedly became increasingly frustrated by Shatner's line-stealing and controlling

antics, eventually approaching producers, and:

"Demanding equal pay with Shatner and [insisting] that they confirm that Spock was the show's

true star."

Shatner's co-star George Takei also had choice words for Shatner, telling the paper,

"To me, more than ego, it looked like some deep-seated insecurity was driving [Shatner's]

congenital need to be 'the star.'"

Shatner went on to write an entire book about their stormy 50-year friendship, in which

he admitted that, despite a slight improvement in their relationship, at the time of Nimoy's

passing in 2015, the two hadn't spoken in five years due to a conflict over a documentary

Shatner was filming.

Sounds like that chapter is officially closed.

"Hang on a second, lemme recapture my mood."

"No, no.

That was great.

Do it again."

Naya Rivera and Lea Michele

For a show abouts singing high school glee club members, Glee sure had a ton of behind-the-scenes

drama.

Not least of all was the tension between on-screen besties to frenemies Lea Michele and Naya

Rivera.

"Do you think that maybe we could at least sing a song together in the Glee club?"

"Fine."

A 2014 TMZ report added fuel to the fire, suggesting that both Michele and Rivera were

throwing tantrums and refusing to work with one another.

But Rivera spilled the goods in her 2016 memoir Sorry Not Sorry, writing,

"I think Rachel — erm, I mean Lea — didn't like sharing the spotlight.

[...] It seemed like she blamed me for anything and everything that went wrong."

During a 2017 interview on E! News, series creator Ryan Murphy addressed the feud, saying,

"That show was just a s--tstorm of difficult."

"What do you do when you're 18 years old or 19 years old and you wake up one day and you're

world famous?"

But he added of the disagreeable Glee clubbers,

"I know for a fact that they admired each other's work, 'cause I directed them both

in scenes."

We'll take your word for it, Murphy.

Kim Cattrall and Sarah Jessica Parker

Rumors have long circulated that Kim Cattrall and Sarah Jessica Parker were nowhere near

as cozy IRL as their on-screen friendship would suggest.

"How can it feel so good when it's so bad?"

"Honey, they design it that way."

In 2017, public interest in the pair's alleged feud reignited when Cattrall and Parker faced

off in the press over the third installment of a Sex and the City movie, which reports

suggested Cattrall had pulled out of, leading to its cancellation.

In Oct. 2017, Cattrall denied to Piers Morgan that she had ever agreed to make the film

or made demands about salary or more scenes, and said,

"I take to task the people from SATC and Sarah Jessica… Parker. is that I think she could have

been nicer."

Fans were then stunned when, after confirming the sudden loss of her brother in February

2018, Cattrall posted on Instagram, "I don't need your love or support at this tragic time

Sarah Jessica Parker.

My Mom asked me today 'When will [...] that hypocrite, leave you alone?'

[...] 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."

As Elle detailed, Parker had previously posted her condolences to Cattrall's Instagram page

and publicly commented on Cattrall's loss.

But we couldn't help but wonder, what does Smith Jerrod think of all this?

Luckily for us, actor Jason Lewis recently weighed in, telling KTLA of one woman in the

alleged feud:

"My sense is you're on team Sarah."

"I might just have to say yeah.

What a gracious lady."

Leighton Meester and Blake Lively

At its core, Gossip Girl was a show all about frenemies, so it seems almost fitting that

co-stars Leighton Meester and Blake Lively weren't exactly thick as thieves off screen.

"What do you want?"

"I'm not even going to pretend to be calling you as a friend right now because you've made

it quite clear that you are not mine."

In the words of writer and co-producer Joshua Safran, Meester and Lively...

"Were not friends.

[...] Yet the second they'd be on set together, it's as if they were."

As far back as 2008, New York Magazine reported on-set tensions between the two stars.

"What about these rumors that you two don't get along?"

"You can tell, right?"

Supposedly the actresses made an effort to patch things up toward the end of the series,

but in 2013, a source told Perez Hilton,

"After something of a thaw in their relationship during the final two seasons of Gossip Girl,

Leighton and Blake don't speak anymore.

[...] The friendship they struggled to build at the end of Gossip Girl has evaporated and

they continue to stay as far away from each other as possible."

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