Liam Gallagher has never shied away from telling the world how he really feels about his peers....
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Liam Gallagher has never shied away from telling the world how he really feels about his peers. His many targets have included Robbie Williams (“a drama queen”), Chris Martin (“looks like a geography teacher”), and Damon Albarn (“boring”), leading to a string of feuds, but his favourite target remains his elder brother Noel. Rock and roll’s most legendary (and funniest) sibling rivalry has seen the Gallaghers trading barbs for decades, including the aforementioned 2009 Liam quote supposedly about his “a big mouth who calls himself a rock star” brother. In turn Noel has hit Liam with a few zingers himself, like the infamous “he’s like a man with a fork in a world of soup”.
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Hilary Duff and Lindsay Lohan were two of the most prominent child actresses of the early ‘00s but ended up in a fairly public feud, and it was all because of Aaron Carter, who first dated Duff, then Lohan, then Duff again, and started a battle between the two young girls.
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Best known for writing songs about her exes, Taylor Swift penned 2010’s ‘Dear John’ (allegedly) about John Mayer, who felt “humiliated” by the track and thought it was “cheap songwriting”. He in turn wrote 2013’s ‘Paper Doll’ (allegedly) in response.
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Swift isn’t exactly the best loved celebrity in the world of music and has clashed with several other famouses, including Katy Perry and Calvin Harris, as well as her longstanding beef with Kanye West and Kim Kardashian (the latter posted a tweet supposedly referencing Taylor on National Snake Day), which have led to her online posts being spammed with the snake emoji.
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The legendary feud between Bette Davis and Joan Crawford – a product of their Hollywood rivalry as well as their feelings for actor Franchot Tone, Bette’s unrequited love who Joan married – came to a head during the filming of What Ever Happened to Baby Jane? (1962) and was also the subject of the first season of the anthology series, Feud (2017).
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The actresses, who met as teens in the early 1950s, were very close friends. Debbie married Eddie Fisher. Elizabeth married Mike Todd, with Debbie serving as Elizabeth’s matron of honour and Eddie as Mike’s best man. Then Mike died in a plane crash. Eddie started having an affair with Elizabeth, eventually marrying her after leaving Debbie with whom he had two children, Carrie and Todd. The marriage didn’t last long.
Years later, the actresses reconciled after they ended up travelling on the same ship.
7. All of them! Glee’s Lea Michele and Naya Rivera didn’t get along while making the show and, according to the latter, didn’t speak to each other at all during the final season.
Anger Management’s Selma Blair criticised Charlie Sheen for being a slacker; the latter then refused to work with her, threatening to quite if she wasn’t fired, which she was.
The X-Files David Duchovny and Gillian Anderson’s working relationship was complicated, and they went through times when they didn’t get along.
And Charmed’s Shannen Doherty left the show at least partly because of her issues with Alyssa Milano.
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Chelsea Handler is clearly not a fan of Angelina Jolie and has made some scathing comments about her. The last one isn’t by her though; that, rather, is Donald Trump’s assessment of Angelina’s looks.
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Apparently Vin Diesel and Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson did not get along on the set of The Fate of the Furious (2016). Johnson hinted he had issues with a co-star, later revealed to be Diesel, on Instagram, writing “some [male co-stars] conduct themselves as stand up men and true professionals, while others don’t”. The beef, he eventually elaborated, was due to “fundamental difference in philosophies on how we approach moviemaking and collaborating”.
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Bader Khalil, who was at the award show to receive a Lifetime Achievement Award, says she was sitting in the front row next to Sultana Siddiqui, when Fawad apparently demanded he wanted to sit next to Sultana or he’d leave. When asked to vacate her seat and go sit in the back, Bader left her award there and left the show.
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Shaan called for a ban on Mawra Hocane for supporting Phantom (2015) after she tweeted about the controversial Bollywood film, leading Shaan to comment “should we ban the actress who supports an anti-Pakistan film?” #BanMawra soon caught on, and the actress then had to post a long defence online, stating, in part, that “a film’s content cannot challenge the dignity of my country as Pakistan is beyond a filmmaker’s opinion of it and its dignity is way more sacred for it to be questioned by a film”.
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Meera isn’t the biggest fan of Mahira Khan. Speaking about working in Bollywood, Mahira once said that “The more clothes you wear, the more respect you're given. You don’t need to do an item number for respect here”. Meera may or may not have taken this as a dig at her. In a tweet that she later deleted, Meera wrote that “Mahira Khan doesn’t know how to act at all. Don’t waste time watching her movies and commercials”. Later, in a video, she said (in Urdu, roughly translated to English here) that “there are many beautiful actors and actresses in Pakistan, who do great work, and do better work than Mahira, so please stop promoting Mahira, because things shouldn’t be unfair for the other actors and actresses in the industry”.
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