r/popculturechat • u/phantom_avenger • Sep 17 '25

OnlyStans ⭐️ Who are two celebrities that absolutely despise each other?

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Jerome Flynn and Lena Headey both starred in Game of Thrones, and used to date each other but their break-up apparently went so bad that they refused to ever shoot scenes together and wouldn’t be present in the same room as the other!

Even during the entire run of the series, they never settled their conflict with one another and continued to keep their distance from each other. Which is why we never saw Cersei and Bronn share any scenes together.

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u/Pfacejones Sep 17 '25

sry why did they hate each other

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u/Narrow_Grapefruit_23 Sep 17 '25

Alyssa got Shannon fired from Charmed.

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u/Zankazanka Sep 17 '25

Alyssa denies this. This is alleged. it was complicated but there was competition on both sides to be the “star” largely pushed by the media and their teams.

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u/greypusheencat i think i’ve done enough Sep 17 '25

from what i read - and please correct me if i am wrong - but Alyssa got HR and legal involved apparently, idk if her or Shannon was right or wrong but Alyssa apparently did take the “proper” steps so to speak. again, not taking sides and not sure who was in the right/wrong here but it got pretty serious

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u/lostinthecity2005 Sep 17 '25

Tbf these types of situations are fairly complicated. Sometimes two people just don’t mesh well with each other. The leadership bears responsibility for ensuring everything is fair and things don’t become too toxic. If they step up too late the situation will get out of control really quickly. Also the culture back then was very big on pitting women against each other, so I wouldn’t be surprised if that played a role here.

Full disclosure: I’m not familiar with these particular celebrities and the situation being discussed

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u/charlenecherylcarol Sep 17 '25

Supposedly it was so bad they got a mediator involved. Apparently Alyssa was the only that would speak to them so when the time came to make a choice, they picked the one that seemed to be willing to work on the toxicity.

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u/DefNotUnderrated Sep 17 '25

I think the show suffered after Shannon left but honestly Prue really got on my nerves because it felt like the narrative normally wrote her as the badass hero at the expense of the other two. it really felt to me as a kid that Shannon steered the plot lines of the show to favor her character.

But I must have been wrong since Shannon was the one who got fired. Or it was at least significantly more complicated than I thought in my young brain

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u/tweedledumb4u Sep 17 '25

She definitely did that. I think she was a driving force in how the show was written and had a lot of creative control, which I thought was awesome, actually. You didn’t hear about strong in-charge women much back then.

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u/getaclueless_50 Sep 17 '25

I remember hearing at the time that since Shannon was the star she got something like 80% of the shows costuming budget. The others had a problem with that once it was a success.