Drama is to be expected on reality TV, but some stars took things so far that relationships
were permanently broken.
So, who couldn’t make amends?
Was it housewives?
Teen moms?
Chefs?
All of the above?
Kendra Wilkinson and Holly Madison were seemingly friendly during their time on E!'s "The Girls
Next Door," but their ongoing feud since their time on the show ended suggests there was
more going on behind the scenes.
The tension between these two became public when Wilkinson revealed, in a 2012 CNN interview,
that these two former girlfriends of Hugh Hefner were never even really friends.
“We’re different.”
Madison did not respond kindly to this statement when she addressed the drama in her 2015 book,
"Down the Rabbit Hole."
Explaining how she reached out to Wilkinson regarding her comments, Madison wrote in part,
"I decided to text her how I truly felt: that she was a coward and that she tried to act
like the 'real' girl on TV, but she's the fakest person I've ever met.
[...] Kendra and I haven't spoken since, and I have to say, I don't miss her."
But the drama did not stop there — the former co-stars' back-and-forth continued into 2021,
when Madison was a guest on the "Call Her Daddy" podcast.
She claimed Wilkinson lied when she shared she hadn't slept with the late Playboy founder
prior to living at his infamous mansion, saying,
"I had to sleep with him first.
I'm not trying to slut shame anybody or anything but nobody ever got asked to move in unless
they had slept with him."
But for her part, it seemed Wilkinson was ready to move on from the headline-making
feud.
"The Hills" fans know that the drama between Lauren Conrad and Heidi Montag was one for
the books.
According to CinemaBlend, it all started when Montag began dating Spencer Pratt, whom Conrad
did not like.
The conflict was bumped up a notch when Conrad suspected Montag and her beau were responsible
for circulating rumors of an adult tape involving "The Fame Game" author and Conrad’s ex,
Jason Wahler.
This seemed to be the breaking point for the co-stars, who soon after cut ties with each
other.
In a not-so-shocking turn of events, Pratt finally admitted he started those rumors in
a 2015 interview with Complex.
He claimed,
"Lauren is a cold-hearted killer.
That's what people don't get.
She will cut you in your sleep."
He went on about his attempt at revenge, saying,
"She tried to destroy us.
If you want to throw missiles, I'm throwing a nuke.
This is how I operate."
It seems the drama has still not calmed down.
In 2021, Montag claimed she had, quote, "such a love" for Conrad during a "Call Her Daddy"
podcast appearance, but it seems unlikely that these two will ever become friends again.
She explained,
"When that whole Spencer thing happened, she's [was] like, 'If you date Spencer, you're off
the show.'
How dare you, and I'm not your dog.
Yeah, I appreciate you getting me on this show, but that doesn't mean you own me and
you can tell me what to do in my life."
At the start of Fox's "The Simple Life," it seemed Paris Hilton and Nicole Richie were
inseparable.
After all, they had a lot in common.
They were both the daughters of wealthy families who seemingly loved partying and indulging
in their inherited fame.
Although it was never confirmed how their feud started, a source cited by People in
2005 said that they believed Richie was jealous of Hilton's level of fame.
They also claimed that she played Hilton's adult tape in an attempt to make fun of her
at a party.
At the time, Hilton stated of their feud,
"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."
Unfortunately, Hilton's vagueness does not tell us much about what actually went down,
but we do know that this conflict changed the dynamic of "The Simple Life."
Starting in Season 4, the show was filmed in separate locations in an attempt to keep
the ex-friends as far away from each other as possible, per The Washington Post.
Luckily, fans have enjoyed the reconciliation between the two in recent years.
In 2014, Richie spoke warmly about their friendship on Andy Cohen's "Watch What Happens Live."
"I haven't spoken to her in a while, but we are very good friends."
"Southern Charmed" stars Ashley Jacobs and Kathryn Dennis were destined for drama from
the start.
Thomas Ravenel, Kathyn Dennis' ex, brought Jacobs along to join the cast as his new girlfriend,
and it all went downhill from there.
Things got brutal at the end of Season 5 when Jacobs referred to Dennis as an "egg donor."
She went on to criticize Dennis' parenting of her two children with Ravenel.
Jacobs did eventually apologize for her harsh comments.
She explained on the "Southern Charm After Show" in 2019,
"I said some things again that were quick and reactive that I shouldn't have said.
I should have had more class to bite my tongue, but again I was just in that moment.
I was provoked, so I was a little disappointed.
Like darn."
“I’m sorry.
I had, like, a lapse in judgment.”
According to The Daily Dish, however, Dennis was skeptical of this apology, stating in
part,
"I don't know how you can go from one polar opposite end of the spectrum to this one,
I don't buy it."
Jacobs took to Instagram in June 2021 to announce she had secretly married NNovate Studios co-founder
Mike Appel, and was expecting a baby boy.
Perhaps motherhood has encouraged the "Southern Charmed" alum to step away from the drama.
"Flipping Out" cast members Jeff Lewis and Jenni Pulos were friends before the show,
but these former co-stars are an example of how business partnerships can go sour quickly.
Pulos earned a spot as a producer on the Bravo series over time.
And it seems that may have been what led to the conversation on her work ethic that ultimately
marked the demise of her friendship with Lewis.
According to RepublicWorld.com, Lewis felt that Pulos was not putting forth as much effort
as she did at the start of their business partnership.
As a result, he fired her, ending their long history of working together.
“So, I guess, what I’m trying to say is: I think it’s time to move on.”
Lewis said on Season 11, Episode 10,
"It was scary because, you know, I'm used to her being next to me for the last dozen
years."
Although Pulos walked away from the show following her firing, the feud had really just begun.
Lewis took to Instagram to share a photo of his former co-star with a red "X" over her
face.
He later deleted the controversial post, but around this time, it was also alleged on his
SiriusXM show that Pulos had accused him of wrongful termination, abuse, and harassment.
Speaking with People, Pulos denied that she'd filed these claims.
And while she noted that she refused to, quote, "fake a friendship" on the series, she did
add that their working relationship, as seen on the show, was very real and authentic.
Starcasm claims that it's been speculated that this headline-making dispute led to the
show's cancellation in 2018.
The feud between former "Real Housewives of New York" stars Kelly Bensimon and Bethenny
Frankel has lasted for years, and the two don't show any signs of making amends in the
near future.
People reported that tensions took root before the show even began filming.
In the "Real Housewives" tell-all book, "Not All Diamonds and Rosé," Jill Zarin shared
how Bensimon and Frankel's relationship got off to a rough start following their initial
meeting during an event at Bensimon's home.
Zarin wrote,
"Bethenny hated Kelly even before the show because she felt that Kelly snubbed her at
that party.
[Bethenny] got even more upset when they met again on the show and Kelly had no idea who
she was.
[Kelly] didn't recall Bethenny being at her house."
During Season 2, Frankel took a jab at Bensimon by calling her "Madonna,” for showing up
late to a meeting about an upcoming charity event.
Things only got worse in the third season, with Bensimon claiming Frankel had been, quote,
"trying to kill her" during the Scary Island saga.
According to Reality Tea, Bensimon's odd behavior included many digs at Frankel — like her
accusation that Frankel is a, quote, "cook, not a chef."
MTV's "Teen Mom OG" follows the lives of the former stars of "16 and Pregnant" and "Teen
Mom" as they navigate life as young mothers with reality TV fame.
The drama-filled spin-off often involves feuds among cast members.
But a petty exchange between "Teen Mom OG" stars Amber Portwood and Farrah Abraham reportedly
turned violent during the filming of a 2016 reunion episode.
According to E!, an unidentified source reportedly took to "The Real Mr. Housewife" blog to explain
how it all went down in a now-deleted post.
They suggested things turned left when Abraham's boyfriend, Simon Saran, got involved.
The source elaborated that some insults were directed at Portwood's fiance, Matt Baier.
The source explained,
"When Dr. Drew mentioned Simon had called Matt a pedophile, it seemed like he was heading
in the direction of an apology, claiming it was all in fun.
[...] However, Farrah piped in and said, 'well he does kind of look like a pedophile.'"
That was when things reportedly got physical.
E! also reported that this feud continued when Abraham sent Portwood a cease-and-desist
letter regarding, quote, "false and defamatory" media statements.
Their public back-and-forths usually had to do with their partners or media scandals — but
Portwood and Abraham have not always been enemies.
Portwood spoke on their former friendship in an interview with E!'s "Daily Pop," stating
in part,
"We used to be friends, but I don't know what happened.
I think she did things for publicity."
When Portwood suggested the two revive their friendship, Abraham claimed to E! that she
was on a whole other level of her life and wasn't interested.
The televised cooking competition "Hell's Kitchen" is mostly known for chef Gordon Ramsay's
yelling spats with contestants — but Ramsay is not the only one who stirs up chaos on
the show.
Season 9's Elise Wims and Carrie Keep let the pressure of the competition create a rift
between them from the get-go.
According to Society19, Wims often attacked Keep's poor performance.
As fans know, tension regarding substandard feedback is a common occurrence on the show,
given that contestants are assigned teams.
The more conflict-prone cast members can become pretty argumentative toward those they feel
are a liability.
In 2011, Keep opened up about Wims' verbal attacks in an interview with D magazine.
Calling Wims "evil," she said,
"I really don't think she has a mother.
Seriously, I don't know who raised her.
A pack of freaking wolves or coyotes.
I want to talk to her mother, if she does have a mother.
[I'd] say 'What did you do to this girl?
God!'
I have never, ever met someone who was like, off the bat, 'Eff you.'
Never!
Everybody loves me!"
The show suggested Wims was always super serious about her teammates' performances, and it
seems this was ultimately the source of her feud with Keep.
Like many reality TV rivals, Caroline Manzo and Teresa Giudice seemingly started out as
friends.
However, in an interview for "Life After Bravo," Manzo shared that the two were not as close
as they seemed to be on "The Real Housewives of New Jersey."
She said she knew Giudice, quote, "very, very casually."
So, it appears that they were not very familiar with each other from the start.
Manzo went on to say that Giudice changed when it became a competition for her.
It seems Manzo became frustrated with her former co-star when she noticed what she perceived
as a shift in character, and this fueled further friction.
During an appearance on Andy Cohen's "Watch What Happens Live" in 2019, Giudice seemingly
blamed Manzo for their falling out.
She said,
"We did have great times, and shame on her for the way it ended up.
She's the one that went against me.
I didn't go against her."
It seems this drama is just as lively off-camera as it was on the show.
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