Tossing tables and throwing fists is par for the course in any reality show,
but which moments went truly over the top?
On The Real Housewives of Atlanta, to earn the coveted peach you need to bring the drama.
Kandi Burruss and Phaedra Parks always served up entertainment, but the friendship between the two
ladies hit the point of no return during Season 9. After Parks felt Burruss took her ex-husband's
side during their divorce, she retaliated by spreading rumors about her amongst the cast.
Parks was able to convince Porsha Williams that Burruss and her husband had planned to drug
and sexually assault her. Despite denying she started the rumors, things escalated
during the reunion when she was exposed as the main source. An emotional Burruss confronted
her and spoke about how those allegations hurt her feelings and tarnished her brand.
“You should understand that drugging somebody while they're drinking
and taking them home is rape. Ya'll accused me of being a f–king rapist!"
A remorseless Parks deflected all the blame.
"I repeated it because I heard it."
"Something was brought to me. I just repeated it."
Parks was later fired from the show, but the feud between the two ladies is still ongoing. There are
rumors that Parks is set to return to the popular franchise, which Burruss is not too excited about.
She recently told People that reuniting with Parks is something she doesn't want to do.
When reminiscing on the greatest moments shown on The Challenge,
Chris "C.T." Tamburello and Adam King's feud tops the list. Their feud started on The Real World:
Paris where they bumped heads frequently throughout the season. The tension between
the two started when King spread rumors about Tamburello's relationship around the house.
Their issues were never resolved.
"Bottom line is, I don't like you, you don't like me. Let's leave it at that, bro."
On The Challenge, things between them only got worse. In Season 17, issues
from Tamburello's personal life began to affect his behavior on the show. Months before filming,
his brother was killed, and his long-term relationship with Diem Brown fell apart.
Rumors began spreading through the house that Tamburello hooked up with another contestant,
which upset Brown. Tamburello once again felt like King was
responsible. A drunk Tamburello confronted him and soon enough,
one of the biggest fights on the show erupted. He brutally attacked King and chased him around the
house. Both Tamburello and King were sent home before the end of the first episode.
The two enemies were later paired up on The Challenge: Rivals,
where they shockingly performed well together. They ended up losing right before the finals,
and it's been speculated that King purposely performed terribly, which he's denied.
Exes don't always make good friends, but they can make great partners. On The Challenge: Final
Reckoning, Ashley Mitchell and Hunter Barfield were teammates. The exes definitely had unresolved
issues from their brief relationship, which caused them to bicker constantly. However, the
two managed to perform well together during the daily challenges and landed a spot in the final.
The grueling final had one condition: whichever partner performed the best would get to choose
to keep the money for themselves or share their earnings with their partner. In a shocking moment,
Mitchell dramatically revealed that she would be keeping the money for herself,
leaving Barfield absolutely devastated. Her reasoning was that during the season,
Barfield shamed her and threatened her family. Barfield denied these claims,
but the camera doesn't lie. MTV aired a flashback of Barfield speaking to
the men of the house after finding out Mitchell slept with another contestant.
"All I'm saying is, if this stupid f–king s–t is gonna cost me a half a
million dollars, then I'm coming for her family."
In a 2018 interview with People, Mitchell explained that she didn't think twice about
making that power move, but a part of her still had empathy for him, saying,
"I felt really, really bad for him and his family that's gonna be watching. I
didn't feel like he deserved that, but I feel like I deserved the million dollars."
Housewives on Bravo throwing drinks on each other isn't new, but on The Real Housewives of Potomac,
the ladies threw drinks and fists during an epic trip to a winery. In Season 5,
the blossoming friendship between Monique Samuels and Candiace Dillard hit a rough
patch that was hard to come back from. Samuels believed Dillard betrayed her
by inviting her arch-nemesis, Charrisse Jackson-Jordan, to an anniversary party.
After failing to smooth things over, a tense vibe between the two festered throughout the season. It
all came to a head when Dillard confronted Samuels for her shady behavior during a girls' trip and
the two began arguing. Hair pulling and glass throwing soon followed, and Samuels even chased
Dillard around the winery. As the season continued to film, the two ladies filed police reports on
each other, both alleging they were victims of assault. The second-degree assault charges
against both of them were later dismissed. Samuels later released a diss track titled "Drag Queens."
During the reunion, they struggled to make amends. Dillard blamed Samuels for leaking
the story about the fight to the press and lying about who initiated it. Samuels denied
talking to gossip blogs and admitted that she was triggered by Dillard's hand in her face.
The explosive reunion was the last time fans got to see Samuels on Housewives,
as she quit the show right after the reunion aired.
The ladies of The Real Housewives of New Jersey know how to get under each other's
skin. Danielle Staub and Margaret Josephs seemed to be thick as thieves in Season
9 when Staub asked her to be a bridesmaid in her wedding. Leading up to the wedding,
the Josephs struggled with putting up with Staub being too much of a bridezilla.
The feud between the two only got worse during a girls' trip to Cabo when they began hurling
personal insults at one another, which resulted in Josephs throwing wine at
Staub. It wasn't the last time these ladies faced off, either. The following season,
Staub experienced a bit of deja-vu. During an argument, Josephs once again poured a drink on
her. Staub wasn't having it. She grabbed Josephs' belongings and destroyed them.
Before making a dramatic exit with the help of Teresa Giudice, Staub grabbed Josephs'
ponytail and gave it a Jersey-style tug. The feud between these two is still ongoing,
and Staub has zero remorse. When asked if she regrets the hair-pulling, she told Bravo,
"I was backed into a corner and I just — I was done. I'm done with her. Regrets? Hell no.
My only regret is not doing it sooner."
In Mob Wives, the bad blood between Drita D'Avanzo and Karen Gravano
made for amazing television. D'Avanzo and Gravano were allegedly childhood friends,
but the source of their feud goes back to a man. D'Avanzo married Gravano's ex-boyfriend,
Lee, and that was something the two could never seem to get past. According to Hollywood Life,
Gravano believes that D'Avanzo violated "girl code" by doing that.
Throughout every season of the show, the women couldn't be in the
same room for more than five seconds without fists flying. In Season 1,
the two attempted to clear the air about the boyfriend situation,
but it led to a nasty brawl on a rooftop. Both women accused each other of lying and sleeping
with each other's boyfriends. The feud between the two included multiple arguments throughout
other seasons and one final fight during the last episode. When D'Avanzo walked in the room
for the final episode, she didn't even say hello before lunging at Gravano. They remain at odds.
When tuning into The Real Housewives of Atlanta, you can always count on a shady
argument between Porsha Williams and Kenya Moore. Their long-running feud started in Season 5 when
Williams referred to Moore as "Miss America." Moore, who is proudly the former Miss USA 1993,
took great offense and never let it go. The shade-fest continued on in Season 6,
as the two ladies took aim at each other's relationships.
Moore accused Williams of cheating on her husband,
and Williams accused Moore of having a fake relationship. During the Season 6 reunion,
their feud took a dramatic turn. Things quickly went off the rails as Moore pulled out a variety
of props and pointed them in Williams' face. Williams didn't find the humor in it and got
up and pulled Moore's hair. The two ladies tussled to the ground before being separated.
Following the fight, Moore filed a police report and Williams was charged with assault. The
reality star later apologized for her actions, explaining to Us Weekly,
"I was pushed too far with objects waved in my face and my personal space was
continuously violated, and I reacted in a way which I am not proud of."
It took some years, but their relationship seemed to improve
after becoming mothers around the same time. In 2019, Williams told Us Weekly,
"Motherhood definitely gave us something in common that is a new experience for both of us."
Johnny Bananas is no stranger to being the villain on The Challenge, thanks in part to his feud with
Sarah Rice, who betrayed him in a previous season. They were later paired up on The Challenge: Rivals
III and seemed to mend their friendship when they apologized to one another and dominated together.
Since Johnny Bananas completed the checkpoints faster, he was tasked with a major decision:
Does he share the prize money with Rice or keep the $275,000 for himself?
In the shocking moment, he kept the money. On The Bill Simmons Podcast,
Bananas later claimed their new friendship wasn't what it looked like, saying,
"People want to make it out like, 'Oh,
but you guys became such good friends.' That was television."
He went on to suggest that if the roles were reversed, Rice would've stolen the money from him.
Rice has never forgiven him. She alleged that Bananas cheated during
the final and producers covered it up. She explained on The Mike Lewis Podcast,
"[Producers] caught him with Adderall, and he beat me on a Challenge where you had to
stay up all night. The crew searched his jacket and found Adderall that he
didn't have a prescription for. He was taking [it] the whole season to give him an edge."
Reza vs. Mercedes
At the core of Shahs of Sunset is friendship... and drama. Lifelong friends Reza Farahan and
Mercedes Javid appeared on the show and always had each other's back. However, in Season 8,
the two friends were at odds. After giving birth, Javid suffered life-threatening complications that
kept her in the hospital. She noted that Farahan didn't visit her, which upset her.
Farahan's relationship was under fire due to rumors that his husband was cheating
on him and he speculated that Javid was the source of the nasty rumors. During this time,
the two avoided each other, but they soon came face-to-face at a pool party. The confrontation
got brutal, with the two slinging nasty insults at each other. At one point,
Farahan stood on a balcony and shouted her secrets in front of the entire party.
“You had ten abortions! Your uterus exploded because you had ten abortions!"
Farahan's vicious words came back to bite him when Javid's husband, Tommy Feight,
showed up at his house. In an attempt to defend his wife, Feight destroyed property outside of
Farahan's home, which resulted in Farahan filing a restraining order. The friendship
between the two remained strained following that. Feight declared that even if Javid's
friendship with Farahan got to a better place, he did not want Farahan around his child. However,
at BravoCon in 2022, Javid revealed that they're all in a better place.
The Real Housewives of New Jersey kicked off with a memorable debut season filled
with drama surrounding Danielle Staub. The ladies on the show had questions about her
past after reading about her in the book Cop Without a Badge. Teresa Giudice in particular
considered her shady and confronted her about it during an infamous dinner scene.
As Staub attempted to explain, Giudice began shouting and flipping tables.
“Prostitution w—e! You were f–ing engaged 19 times!"
Thus, their infamous feud was born. The feud between the two ladies spilled over into Season 2,
and during the reunion, they once again had a heated confrontation. When Staub brought up
Giudice's nephew, she stormed over to her and shouted in her face. In a hilarious moment,
host Andy Cohen attempted to restrain Giudice, who flung him off of her with ease.
When Staub returned to the show during Seasons 8 and 9, viewers were shocked
that the two enemies were finally in a good place. In 2018, Staub told the Daily Mail,
"We speak more than once a day. We're legitimately friends, it was something
that was worth salvaging and has turned into the relationship it should have always been."
However, the Jersey girls didn't keep the peace for long. While filming Season 10,
a source told Us Weekly the ladies were at odds once again and unfollowed each other.
Paris Hilton and Nicole Richie took over television with their hit show The Simple Life,
but it wasn't long before things got icy between the two. It's been
rumored that the main cause of their feud can be traced back to one shady
moment. When Hilton got the coveted gig of hosting Saturday Night Live,
Richie reportedly hosted a party. According to People, instead of screening the episode,
Richie turned around and screened Hilton's infamous sex tape instead. Hilton told the outlet,
"It's no big secret that Nicole and I are no longer friends. Nicole knows what she did,
and that's all I'm ever going to say about it."
At the time, Richie blamed their fallout on herself simply outgrowing Hilton and
wanting to settle down. However, their feud wasn't good for business. The two
still had a hit television show to film. To avoid filming with her new nemesis,
Hilton attempted to get producers to replace Richie with her friend, Kimberly Stewart. In 2006,
producers were forced to shift the format so the ladies would film separately.
It's probably no surprise that Amber Portwood and Farrah Abraham would have problems with
each other. In 2016, the two faced off during the Teen Mom OG reunion. Dr. Drew
Pinsky confronted Abraham and her boyfriend about past comments they made about Portwood's fiance.
Abraham previously called him a pedophile for dating someone 20
years younger than him. When questioned about how hurtful the comment could be,
Abraham brushed it off. It wasn't long before Portwood stormed the stage and confronted Abraham.
"Just because somebody's 20 years older than you doesn't mean he's a f—ing pedophile."
"Shut your f---ing mouth, do you understand me? I'm going to stand up for my man!"
Portwood's fiance and Abraham's father even began tussling with one another. Chaos then
erupted on stage with production trying to restrain everyone from fighting one another.
In 2017, Abraham sent a cease and desist letter to her Teen Mom co-star,
according to E! News. Portwood alleged she never received it.
In 2022, the two appeared on Teen Mom:
Family Reunion and had a much more peaceful chat about family life.