These TV Friendships Were Iconic – But Hugs Turned To Hate When The Cameras Were Off

No matter what’s happening behind the scenes, the show must go on. That’s the attitude these actors took – even when they totally hated their co-stars. Yes, on-screen buddies are often the best of frenemies when the cameras stop rolling. Take these 20 pairs, for example! And Some are going to surprise you for sure...

20. McDreamy and Burke, Grey’s Anatomy

Grey’s Anatomy’s Patrick Dempsey and Isaiah Washington were absolutely, positively not friends off camera. In fact, in 2006 media outlets reported that the two had gotten into a literal brawl on the set. Yes, really! Allegedly, Washington had grabbed Dempsey by the throat over the issue of people being late for work.

And things only got worse the following year. In 2007 it emerged that Washington had allegedly used a homophobic slur while fighting with Dempsey, and their fellow star T.R. Knight believed that it had been directed at him. The upshot of all this? Washington was fired from the show and blamed Dempsey for the whole crisis. It was a very messy, very public fallout.

19. Sabrina and Kris, Charlie’s Angels

Nope, Kate Jackson didn’t get along at all with her Charlie’s Angels co-star Cheryl Ladd. And it seems that the age-old problem of television casting reared its head, as one believed the other was upstaging her. Basically, Jackson thought that she was the star of Charlie’s Angels and didn’t want Ladd angling for that position. Her husband confirmed as much to People in 1979.

Ladd, for her part, seems to have adopted an “if you can’t say anything nice, don’t say anything at all” attitude. You see, while she’s remained good friends with Jaclyn Smith, she’s been remarkably schtum about Jackson. And even when Ladd was asked about her rival, she was brief with her response. “Kate’s complex – let’s leave it at that,” she told the Daily Express in 2017.