The 24 Greatest TV Feuds of All Time

Network chairs, cast rifts and on-air ambushes. A few of these ended careers; others only ended friendships.

1. 1
   Jimmy Kimmel vs. Jay Leno

   Kimmel's 2010 on-air roasting of Leno during the Tonight Show conflict.
   1000pts
2. 2
   Letterman vs. Leno

   The fight over Johnny Carson's Tonight Show chair that sent Letterman to CBS in 1993.
   926pts
3. 3
   Shannen Doherty vs. Alyssa Milano

   The Charmed co-stars clashed so openly that Doherty left the show after its third season in 2001.
   802pts
4. 4
   Bruce Willis vs. Cybill Shepherd

   The Moonlighting leads' on-set fights in the late 1980s became as famous as the show and helped bring it to an end.
   778pts
5. 5
   Tom Cruise vs. Matt Lauer

   The 2005 Today show interview in which Cruise called Lauer glib and lectured him on psychiatry and Brooke Shields.
   778pts
6. 6
   Will Smith vs. Janet Hubert

   The original Aunt Viv left The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air in 1993 and blamed Smith for decades, until the two made peace on the 2020 reunion.
   629pts
7. 7
   Lea Michele vs. Naya Rivera

   The Glee co-stars' rivalry, long rumoured, was confirmed by Rivera in her 2016 memoir Sorry Not Sorry.
   629pts
8. 8
   Isaiah Washington vs. T.R. Knight

   Washington's homophobic slur about his Grey's Anatomy co-star, repeated at the 2007 Golden Globes, got him fired from the show.
   629pts
9. 9
   Mariah Carey vs. Nicki Minaj

   The American Idol judges' clashes during the 2013 season.
   555pts
10. 10
    Jimmy Kimmel vs. Kanye West

    Kimmel's 2013 parody of a West interview, recast with children, set off an all-caps rant before the two made up on his show.
    555pts
11. 11
    William Shatner vs. George Takei

    The Star Trek co-stars have traded public jabs for decades, with Takei long accusing Shatner of hogging the spotlight on set.
    555pts
12. 12
    Conan vs. NBC

    The 2010 Tonight Show conflict that ended Conan O'Brien's run after seven months.
    470pts
13. 13
    Jon Stewart vs. Jim Cramer

    Stewart's 2009 Daily Show grilling of the Mad Money host.
    470pts
14. 14
    Keith Olbermann vs. Bill O'Reilly

    The cable news war of the 2000s, with Olbermann routinely naming the Fox host Worst Person in the World on MSNBC's Countdown.
    470pts
15. 15
    Rosie O'Donnell vs. Elisabeth Hasselbeck

    Their 2007 split-screen shouting match over the Iraq War on The View ended with O'Donnell leaving the show early.
    470pts
16. 16
    Kelly Ripa vs. Michael Strahan

    Ripa learned of Strahan's 2016 move to Good Morning America at the last minute and stayed off their show for days in protest.
    470pts
17. 17
    Johnny Carson vs. Joan Rivers

    Carson never spoke to his favorite guest host again after she launched a rival show in 1986.
    470pts
18. 18
    Jon Stewart vs. Crossfire

    Stewart's 2004 on-air takedown of CNN's Crossfire, which was cancelled months later.
    370pts
19. 19
    Charlie Sheen vs. Chuck Lorre

    The 2011 blowup that got Sheen fired from Two and a Half Men.
    370pts
20. 20
    Megyn Kelly vs. Donald Trump

    Kelly's question about his comments on women at the first 2015 Republican debate set off months of attacks from Trump.
    370pts
21. 21
    Rosie O'Donnell vs. Donald Trump

    Began in 2006 when O'Donnell mocked Trump on The View, and the insults kept flying for well over a decade.
    252pts
22. 22
    Chevy Chase vs. Dan Harmon

    Chase's running battle with the Community creator, including a leaked profane voicemail, ended with him leaving the show in 2012.
    0pts
23. 23
    Cattrall vs. Sarah Jessica Parker

    Kim Cattrall and Sarah Jessica Parker, the Sex and the City co-stars' long-running rift.
    0pts
24. 24
    Bethenny Frankel vs. Jill Zarin

    The Real Housewives of New York City friendship that collapsed on camera in 2009 and 2010, Bravo's defining early feud.
    0pts

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