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Behind the scenes drama

Here's a look at a few TV shows where the drama continued off screen and cast members turned foes

Behind the scenes drama
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Glee

Although the TV show was one of the most widely followed music shows, not all the cast members got on well with each other. In fact Naya Rivera who came out with her memoir a few months ago threw more light on her feud with co-star Lea Michelle. From the looks of it Lea pretty much behaved like her onscreen persona Rachel who couldn't handle other people getting as much spotlight as she did. “ I think Rachel ” erm, I mean Lea ” didn't like sharing the spotlight,” she wrote, adding that Lea seemed to have a hard time separating work from their off set friendship. “Lea was a lot more sensitive, though, and it seemed like she blamed me for anything and everything that went wrong. If I'd complained about anyone or anything, she'd assumed I was b***hing about her."

Two and a Half Men

The comedy show about two brothers Alan and Charlie and Alan's young son was much loved by viewers but things began to get a bit out of hand after Charlie Sheen who played Charlie on the show began to rant about the show in public and criticising the producer Chuck Lorre. His battle with drug addiction also created further problems. The Warner Bros. studio stated that Sheen’s partying began to impact his performance on the show. The studio says Sheen was late to rehearsals, had difficulty remembering his lines and hitting his marks. The actor was soon shown the door and Ashton Kutcher was brought on as a replacement.

Greys Anatomy

Oh yes, fans loved the serious and brilliant heart surgeon Dr Preston Burke ( played by Isaiah Washington) and his chemistry with Cristina Yang (Sandra Oh) who apart from sharing his love for heart surgery was quite his polar opposite, certainly made for some entertaining television. However, trouble began when it was alleged that Washington had passed a homophobic comment on co-star T R Knight. Although Washington apologised he later claimed that he had never made the comment. However the show people had had enough and Washington's contract was not renewed. In reply to this Washington released an official statement saying, "I'm mad as hell and I'm not going to take it anymore."

Gossip Girl

Taylor Momsen proved to be quite like her onscreen character the bratty Jenny Humphrey in real life too. The actress had decided that she no longer wanted to act and instead spent all her time with her rock band The Pretty Reckless instead. Sources on the show alleged that "when she did show up she wasn't very level-headed," and that she was eventually fired for being "unreliable and erratic."

Criminal Minds

One of the most recent actors to get kicked off a TV show , Thomas Gibson had to get anger management therapy earlier for allegedly pushing a producer. However after he returned to the sets for season 12, he got into trouble yet again after he kicked a writer in the shin during a dispute over the script. "There were creative differences on the set and a disagreement," he admitted. "I regret that it occurred." His apology however wasn't enough to help his stay on the show.

The Good Wife

Rumours about a feud between the lead star Julianna Margulies and Archie Panjabi have been doing the rounds ever since the second season of the show after fans began to notice that the two hadn't done a single scene together for quite a few episodes. Things got further heated up after it was announced that Panjabi would be leaving the show after season 6. Although the duo did get together on the season finale, it was then alleged that the two hadn't shot their scenes together but that it had been digitally added to make it look that way. After it was confirmed that the scenes had infact been shot separately, Margulies while trying to shut down the feud rumours stated that it has been done separately because Panjabi was busy shooting her other show The Fall at the same time. However, soon after parts of the interview were made public, Panjabi took to Twitter to say that she had in fact been in New York all along and was ready to shoot the scene at that time.

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