Female Television Co-Stars Who Hated Working Together

By Haider Ali in Entertainment On 18th February 2017

Whether in school or for work, sometimes we’re forced to work with people that we rather not work with. Maybe it’s their personality, or their lackluster worth ethic, or something else that makes working with them a difficult chore. When we’re forced to work with someone we don’t want to, we’re forced to suck it up and deal with it. Grin and bear it. “It’ll be over soon,” we tell ourselves.

#1 Shannen Doherty & Jennie Garth on Beverly Hills, 90210

In the show Beverly Hills, 90210, Shannen Doherty’s character and Jennie Garth’s character didn’t like each other. Brenda Walsh (Doherty) and Kelly Taylor (Garth) were best friends until Kelly stole Brenda’s boyfriend. Then their friendship pretty much fell apart. Much like Doherty and Garth’s relationship on the show. In an interview with E! in 2014, Garth said that she and Doherty were confined in the sound stage for 14-16 hours every day and some days were worse than others. Some days they got along fine; other days they were ready to claw each other’s eyes out. Garth attests their belligerent relationship to her and Doherty both being Aries women, who are known for being strong and independent, which caused them to butt heads from time to time. But she adds that since they are grown women now, their relationship has improved dramatically.

#2 Lindsay Lohan and America Ferrera on Ugly Betty

Lindsay Lohan was supposed to make an appearance on Ugly Betty for six episodes. But things didn’t exactly turn out that way, as Lohan appeared in only four episodes. The reason? Backstage drama between her and the show’s star America Ferrera. Lohan played Betty’s nemesis from high school, and their relationship in real life apparently was just as antagonistic as it was on the show. She and Ferrera butted heads due to Lohan supposedly having attitude problems, and their already strained relationship became irrevocably damaged after a scene they were filming went very, very wrong. Reports say that Ferrera’s treatment towards Lohan wasn’t exactly warm either. The producers weren’t going to boot the star of the series off of course, so Lohan was kicked off prematurely.

#3 NeNe Leakes and Star Jones on The Celebrity Apprentice

Season 11 of The Celebrity Apprentice had drama all on its own, mainly due to drama between two of the season’s contestants, NeNe Leakes and Star Jones. During an appearance on The Ellen DeGeneres Show, Leakes said that Jones was bossy and manipulative and that Jones had it in for her. Donald Trump said so himself that there was no love between the two women. Leakes lashed out at Jones during an Apprentice episode but Jones chose not to retaliate, later saying that she appeared on the show to raise money for a charity near and dear to her heart, not to get involved in a fight for the sake of publicity. She’s made it clear that she and Leakes were never friends and they will never be friends.

#4 Betty White and Bea Arthur on Golden Girls

The hit sitcom Golden Girls, revolves around four older women sharing a house in Miami. For Betty White and Bea Arthur, two of the show’s stars, this probably wouldn’t have worked in real life. Arthur didn’t like White one bit, which reportedly had something to do with her not liking White’s incredibly sunny personality, something that made her mad at times. White confessed in an interview with TimesTalk in 2011 that Arthur was “not very fond of her” and that she found White “a pain in the neck sometimes.” And even though all four actresses won Emmy Awards for their work on Golden Girls, Arthur was allegedly upset that White won Emmy gold first. Sometime after her death in 2009, her son said in an interview that his mom wasn’t a loner but that she wasn’t particularly close to anyone and that she liked to go home and read the newspaper.

#5 Teri Hatcher and Marcia Cross on Desperate Housewives

Things weren’t exactly as chummy as they seemed on Wisteria Lane among the four stars of Desperate Housewives. There was a bit of a clique that consisted of Eva Longoria, Felicity Huffman, Vanessa Williams and Marica Cross—and Teri Hatcher, who played their best friend on-screen, wasn’t a part of it. It was well-documented that Hatcher wasn’t particularly close to her co-stars, as she was seen separating herself from the others during breaks in filming, but things were especially heated between her and Cross. The cast won for Best Television Series Musical or Comedy at the Golden Globes in 2005, but Hatcher won for Best Actress, which made things even worse. Cross became even more upset at a Vanity Fair photoshoot because Hatcher was front and center.

#6 Julianna Margulies and Archie Panjabi on The Good Wife

It made sense for Alicia Florrick, played by Julianna Margulies, and Kalinda Sharma, played by Archie Panjabi not to be seen on-screen together in The Good Wife after Alicia discovered Kalinda once slept with her husband, creating some bad blood between the two. The actresses portraying both characters were probably happier that way since they didn’t have to interact on-screen much anymore. In fact, Margulies and Panjabi didn’t shoot one physical scene with one another in the CBS drama for over two years. And in the final episode Panjabi appeared in, the actresses didn’t appear together; the producers had to use a green screen and some CGI editing to make it seem like the two were together.

#7 Melissa Gilbert and Melissa Sue Anderson on Little House on the Prairie

There are friends, there are enemies, and there are frenemies. Melissa Gilbert and fellow Little House on the Prairie co-star Allison Arngrim, were of the first sort. They weren’t just friends though; they were best friends. Sisters almost. However, Melissa Gilbert and Melissa Sue Anderson were of the latter sort. While the two Melissas portrayed sisters in the popular western drama, according to Gilbert, Anderson was anything but sisterly to her. Gilbert told host Andy Cohen on Watch What Happens Live in 2014 that Anderson was mean, hateful, and a difficult person to work with. She said that Anderson knocked her off a wagon when she was nine. Arngrim chimed in during an appearance on Fox News’ The Strategy Room, adding that Anderson refused to hang out with her and Gilbert and that she seemed to be disgusted by the two.

#8 Shannen Doherty and Alyssa Milano on Charmed

During the early years of the WB fantasy series Charmed, Shannen Doherty, Alyssa Milano and Holly Marie Combs, portrayed three sister witches who worked together to fight the forces of evil. On the contrary, the bond among the three of them was anything but sisterly in real life. Doherty unexpectedly left the show in 2001 amid gossip that she left due to conflict with Milano. The gossip was proven true in an interview Milano did in 2001 where she basically said she and Doherty didn’t get along because they were too different. Paramount, the studio behind Charmed, hired a moderator to mediate between the two actresses but all attempts failed. Paramount was left with no other choice but to fire someone, and since Milano was more popular than Doherty, Doherty was sent packing.

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