You know what people love around here, probably because it distracts us from our current reality? Celebrity feuds! I love them too, and to the best of my ability, I’ve tried to track down a few recent ones (excluding the apparent Colin Jost and Pete Davidson one).
I genuinely have no idea what’s behind this one, nor do I know if it’s real, but Matthew Belloni over on Puck — who loves to stir up scuttlebutt — claims there’s a rift between Demi Moore and her The Substance director.
“The quietest feud. Demi Moore and Coralie Fargeat, the nominated star and director of The Substance, were barely speaking to each other, if at all, by the end of the campaign, per multiple sources. (Note that Moore did not thank her director in her SAG Awards speech.)”
That’s all he gives us, and from my perusal of the internet (OK, Reddit boards), all I can find are several interviews where Moore mentions that Fargeat was demanding on set. But also, that Moore tried to assert a lot of control. Moreover, Moore’s co-star, Margaret Qualley, and Fargeat unfollowed each other on Instagram, and Qualley even unfollowed the official movie account. Is that anything? Qualley has also talked about a challenging set and how her prosthetics gave her acne, but that hardly seems like cause for a falling out.
Perhaps less interesting — but at least with more details — is a feud (here in the form of a lawsuit, per The Wrap) between Katherine Heigl and The Pitty Committee, a California-based nonprofit dog rescue agency. Heigl is suing the agency for “false, defamatory, and derogatory accusations.”
Basically, Heigl and her mother’s foundation donated $5,000 a month to the rescue organization to save a certain number of dogs. According to Heigl’s complaint, the agency didn’t fulfill its obligations and treated her donation like a “blank check.”
When Heigl felt the rescue agency wasn’t holding up its end of the deal, she didn’t renew the donation after the year-long contract expired. In response, the agency allegedly launched a smear campaign against Heigl on social media, accusing her of “mistreating dogs, failing to provide promised funding, and stealing from” the organization. Yikes.
I personally can’t track down these social media posts, but Heigl has promoted other rescue organizations on X, which suggests that dog rescue is, um, a pet project of hers (sorry).
Elsewhere, the feud between Daryl Hall and John Oates is seemingly never going to resolve itself. According to Hall (the blond guy): “That ship has gone to the bottom of the ocean. I’ve had a lot of surprises in my life—disappointments, betrayals—so I’m kind of used to it.”
Their falling out stemmed from Oates’ attempt to sell the rights to their music to a third party without Hall’s permission. Hall also claimed that his contributions to the songwriting process — about 90 percent, according to him — “went a bit unnoticed.” Legally, maybe. But I think everyone knows the blond guy did everything while the brunette stood in the back, bopping his head and playing bass.
Aside: One time, I described Hall & Oates as Motown Philly music — because they were a Philly-based duo heavily influenced by Motown — and my wife nearly divorced me for mentioning Hall & Oates in the same sentence as Motown.
I don’t know if this qualifies as a “feud,” necessarily, but someone is talking to Page Six on behalf of Jennifer Lopez, telling the tabloid that she is “furious” over all the affectionate photos of Ben Affleck and Jennifer Garner popping up. Evidently, they’re “messing with her head.”
There’s been a lot of talk about Affleck and Garner reuniting, but personally, I think they get along really well and co-parent effectively. Garner has been with John Miller for seven years. There were plenty of affectionate photos of her and Affleck while he was married to Lopez. Kids like it when their parents get along!
Finally, this doesn’t exactly fall under the “feud” category, but Walton Goggins revealed on Jimmy Kimmel that during last week’s The White Lotus episode — when he released a snake — he was actually bitten by one. And Goggins hates snakes. There’s no love lost between him and that snake!
I hated that scene, too, and I wasn’t even there. I was watching in bed on my laptop with headphones, and I recoiled so violently that I scared the hell out of my wife, who reflexively punched me in the shoulder. I’m with Goggins. I hate snakes. I would have turned down the role if I’d known I had to deal with real ones.
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