When best friends turned foes

There are no BFFs (Best Friends Forever) or forever foes. CT looks at the Hollywood buddies’ club, and chronicles those who have looked past their differences to those who still hold grudges against their ex-pals
Gwyneth Paltrow and Madonna
Famed best friends Madonna and Gwyneth Paltrow broke up after years of studying Kabbalah together, revealed sources as early as mid-2010.‘They don't speak. I can’t tell you exactly why they had a falling out, but Gwyneth can be jealous and competitive,’ said one source to an American magazine. Apparently things started going downhill after Madonna’s split from husband Guy Ritchie, leaving Madge and Gwyn with ‘less in common’. Sadly, these two had been friends since 1999. Gwyn even called Madonna something ‘like an older sister’ in a 2007 interview.
Lauren Conrad and Heidi Montag
The feud between Lauren Conrad and Heidi Montag could well be attributed to one person: Montag’s husband Spencer Pratt. The two made front page news after their televised feud began on ‘The Hills’, a spinoff from ‘Laguna Beach’. The former best friends couldn’t see eye-to-eye after Pratt entered the picture. Montag disliked Conrad
constantly finding fault with her guy while Lauren felt Heidi was giving up their friendship for her new guy (Montag and Pratt were dating then). Thereafter, Heidi blamed Conrad for blaming the outing of a sextape on her. Montag vehemently denied the accusations. The damage was done.
Nicole Ritchie and Paris Hilton
‘The Simple Life’ of two friends isn’t as simple as it looks. The two socialites-cum-reality stars got along famously for the show’s duration and even after. But their split in 2005 was left unexplained with both parties choosing to keep quiet about the reasons. While one rumour went that Paris was miffed with Nicole for showing friends one of Hilton’s sex tapes, the buzz was never substantiated. Hilton made a big show-sha about looking for another BFF, but we’d like to think the two have matured since that time. Motherhood has sobered Nicole down while Paris deals with her troubles to this day. A few weeks ago, the two met at a party and kissed and hugged for the benefit of the snaparazzi. Almost like the spat never happened. Almost.
Jennifer Aniston and Courteney Cox
In most recent memory, these two squabbled in 2007, when Jen, fresh from the breakup with Brad (Pitt) was reaching out to her pal Courteney, and asked her to be with her on the sets of a film being shot in Oregon. Cox refused (husband David Arquette
didn’t want to go) but Aniston saw this as ‘unsupportive’ behaviour from a friend and called her selfish. They stopped talking for quite a while after that. Then, as late as June 2011, during her trial separation from Arquette, Courteney started getting quite close to her co-star on ‘Cougar Town’, Brian van Holt. Jennifer saw shades of her Brad in the way her best friend was carrying along with van Holt. The two had a falling-out even then.
Lindsay Lohan and Hilary Duff
More often than not, it’s a guy that drives two gal pals apart. Duff began dating Aaron Carter in 2002, at a time when he was also seeing Lindsay Lohan. While they said a reconciliation wasn’t
possible through 2005, it took until 2007 for the two to let bygones be bygones and let Carter, fade away from memory. However, we sense the two have some unfinished business. Watch this space.
Denise Richards and Heather Locklear
Talk about cold. Locklear and Richards were best friends for many years, with Richards even being one of a few of Locklear’s best friends to be invited to her cozy 44th birthday celebration. The two women became very close after meeting on the set of ‘Spin City’ in 2001. But when Locklear’s marriage to Richie Sambora crumbled in 2006, Richards, fresh out of her split from Charlie Sheen, went in for the kill. According to some rumours, Locklear suspected that Sambora and Richards had relations before their divorce, but regardless, it’s not cool to date your best friend’s ex-husband even after the divorce. Even though the romance between Richards and Sambora was short-lived, chances are there’s no reconciliation in the stars for these two bombshells.
Compiled by Bryan Durham