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Soap stars who reportedly didnt get along on set which soap actor feuds were real and which were just fan rumors

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Which soap feuds were actually real and which ones were just fan rumors

Susan Lucci vs Sarah Michelle Gellar
Deidre Hall vs Crystal Chappell / Suzanne Rogers / Kristian Alfonso
Robert Kelker Kelly vs Lisa Rinna
Eric Braeden vs Peter Bergman

honestly it makes sense that not everyone gets along at work especially on shows that run for years

who else would you add

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10 minutes ago, asafi said:


Eric Braeden vs Peter Bergman

This one I didn't know! Would love to know more about it...

One I recently heard about directly from Signy Coleman in an interview she did over the last couple years... Kim Zimmer did not treat her well and they just didn't get along, as much as Signy says she wishes they could. So GL's Annie vs. Reva on-screen and Kim vs. Signy off-screen haha.

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28 minutes ago, asafi said:

Which soap feuds were actually real and which ones were just fan rumors

Eric Braeden vs Peter Bergman

In this July 2025 interview with Peter Bergman, he addresses his working relationship with Eric Braeden. It's very classy and I think it puts the rumors to bed. Bergman say that he and Braeden have different internal processes for preparing for a scene, and how he learned to adapt to that.

Bergman explains in depth, from the 26:20 mark to the 32:00 mark.

Worth watching!

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1 hour ago, alwaysAMC said:

This one I didn't know! Would love to know more about it...

Some details... the fistfight happened 12/12/91, on the day that the episode aired 1/15/92 was being filmed.

In PB's dressing room, PB and EB had to be pried apart by crew members. They each filed separate police reports.

SOD reported that auditions were held to replace EB?? It's very hard to imagine that EB would be replaced over PB.

After the holiday break, EB and PB both reported for work on 1/6/92. They had "kissed and made up". They had to post-film scenes for many eps that both of them originally missed due to the aftermath of the skirmish.

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2 hours ago, alwaysAMC said:

This one I didn't know! Would love to know more about it...

One I recently heard about directly from Signy Coleman in an interview she did over the last couple years... Kim Zimmer did not treat her well and they just didn't get along, as much as Signy says she wishes they could. So GL's Annie vs. Reva on-screen and Kim vs. Signy off-screen haha.

Zimmer also allegedly had issues with Cynthia Watros and Michelle Forbes. There's a promo (I don't know if it is around now) from 1997 where Reva and Annie were arguing in the nuthouse and a purse goes flying. That was, allegedly, not a scripted scene and someone got confused and put it into a real promo.

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ATWT:

There are any number of rumors swirling around about Colleen Zenk in the '80s, that she did not get along with Hillary Bailey Smith at the time, and that she did not get along with Jacqueline Schultz, the latter allegedly leading to an exit for Ariana Munker, who was tired of their issues. Schultz also left within a few years.

OLTL:

Jessica Tuck and Joe Lando, IIRC, discussed that they did not get along initially. I think Jessica said that when Megan had to slap Jake in a scene she was happy to do it for real.

Clint Ritchie hated BarBara Luna.

There were rumors that HBS and Robert S. Woods had issues for years, to the point where production had to push them hard to agree to let Bo and Nora reunite. They got over their differences.

B&B:

This one was heavily covered by the soap press. Hunter Tylo and Kimberlin Brown were close friends, so much so that they even joked at the time about tabloid speculation that they were lovers. In 1994, Tylo went through an absolutely insane year, including leaving B&B and leaving her husband, Michael Tylo. They later reconciled, with Hunter, IIRC, claiming that while filming a TV-movie she had been bitten by a snake and this caused her to go wild, but her relationship with Kimberlin did not recover as Kimberlin and her husband had sided with Michael during the split. I think there were rumors of restraining orders flying around and bodyguards being hired?

Y&R:

Jeanne Cooper wrote in her memoir, IIRC, about Melody Thomas Scott not speaking to her for a year or more, and she never knew why.

I think some in the cast had issues with Brenda Dickson and Margeurite Ray.

Some also had issues with Victoria Rowell and did not treat her well.

DAYS:

I think Kristain did not get on well with Peter Reckell for a while, but this was nothing in comparison to how she felt about RKK, which is one of the reasons she was fine with him returning.

Falcon Crest:

Jane Wyman had legendary feuds with Lana Turner and Robert Foxworth. She could not be filmed in scenes with Lana for much of Lana's run due to their tension. She supposedly demanded that her contract let her direct, even though she never intended to do any directing, just because she had learned that he was going to be directing episodes. She also insisted she get a larger trailer when she learned his trailer was larger than hers.

Dynasty:

Joan Collins and John Forsythe were not close, and the cast was allegedly divided between them.

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