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Celebs Who Started Out Friends And Ended Up Enemies

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Some of Hollywood’s tightest friendships have ended in the ugliest public breakups imaginable.

Nicki Swift’s video feature “Celebs Who Started Out Friends And Ended Up Enemies” runs through the receipts on stars who went from matching Instagram captions to subtweeting each other for years. The common threads are almost always the same: a stolen gig, a competing tour, or a betrayal nobody saw coming until the diss track dropped.

The centerpiece is Taylor Swift and Katy Perry, whose split over stolen backup dancers became one of the most-dissected feuds in pop history. But the piece also digs into Selena Gomez and Demi Lovato’s slow drift apart, Lauren Conrad and Heidi Montag’s collapse on The Hills, the 1990s runway tension between Tyra Banks and Naomi Campbell, and Kanye West’s long-running war with Swift.

• Taylor Swift told Rolling Stone that a rival artist “tried to sabotage an entire arena tour” by hiring away her dancers, a betrayal that inspired “Bad Blood” and prompted Katy Perry to fire back with “Swish Swish.”
• Demi Lovato confirmed by 2020 that she and childhood Disney Channel co-star Selena Gomez were no longer friends, after years of subtle public shade.
• Lauren Conrad and Heidi Montag’s bond on MTV’s The Hills fell apart over Montag’s relationship with Spencer Pratt and the vicious rumors that followed Conrad.

The Dancers Who Started It All

Swift and Perry were once the picture of industry camaraderie, trading compliments and cameo appearances. That ended around 2014, when several dancers left Swift’s Red Tour to join Perry’s Prismatic World Tour. Swift didn’t dance around the accusation in her Rolling Stone interview, saying the rival singer “tried to sabotage an entire arena tour” by poaching her hired help out from under her.

Perry didn’t let the accusation sit quietly, either. She took to Twitter warning followers to “watch out for the Regina George in sheep’s clothing,” a shot that lit up entertainment coverage for months. The back-and-forth escalated into dueling songs, with Swift’s “Bad Blood” widely read as aimed at Perry and Perry’s “Swish Swish” landing as the reply. It’s the kind of professional jealousy that’s fueled plenty of coverage, including our own rundown of people Katy Perry has treated like trash.

“Watch out for the Regina George in sheep’s clothing.”

The two eventually patched things up, and the peace offering was literal — Perry sent an actual olive branch ahead of Swift’s Reputation Tour. It remains the gold standard for how a pop-star feud can start with a stolen dance crew and end with a houseplant as a peace treaty.

Disney Kids Who Drifted For Good

Selena Gomez and Demi Lovato came up together as Disney Channel co-stars, close enough that fans assumed the friendship was permanent. It wasn’t. The two drifted apart amid media friction and years of subtle public shade traded across interviews and social posts, with neither side ever fully explaining what went wrong. By 2020, Lovato put an end to the speculation and confirmed outright that the friendship was over.

The Hills Fallout That Defined Reality TV

Before Bravo turned cast rivalries into a business model, MTV’s The Hills gave viewers a real-time look at a friendship falling apart on camera. Lauren Conrad and Heidi Montag were the show’s breakout stars and, early on, inseparable. That changed once Montag got serious with Spencer Pratt, and vicious rumors about Conrad started circulating — the kind of split that set the template for reality TV feuds that followed, a genre we’ve tracked in pieces like reality stars who treat their co-stars like trash.

Runway Rivals And A VMAs Interruption

The feature also revisits older Hollywood fallouts that set the tone for today’s celebrity feuds. Supermodels Tyra Banks and Naomi Campbell clashed in the 1990s amid agency shifts and the kind of territorial tension that came with sharing a runway and a client list.

Then there’s Kanye West and Taylor Swift, a feud with more chapters than almost anyone else on this list. It started at the 2009 MTV VMAs when West interrupted Swift’s acceptance speech, cooled into a brief reconciliation, and then reignited entirely over West’s track “Famous.”

The Same Story, Different Names

Across every pairing the video covers, the pattern holds: a shared industry, overlapping ambitions, and a single moment — a poached dancer, a leaked rumor, a stolen boyfriend — that turns a friendship into a headline. Taylor Swift and Katy Perry got the happy ending with the olive branch before the Reputation Tour. Not everyone on this list has been so lucky.