Soap stars most vicious feuds from horror stab threat to furious ex’s car attacked with baseball bat

SOAPS are full of street brawls, cat-fights and slanging matches – but sometimes the actors find themselves feuding in real life too.

Whether its warring Coronation Street exes or soap family feuds that have spilled out into real-life – there are more stars than you'd expect that secretly can't stand each other behind the scenes.

As former Coronation Street couple Ryan Thomas and Tina O'Brien come face-to-face once again as he briefly rejoins the soap – the cast are likely to be on tenterhooks amid their very fractious relationship.

Things have been less than plain sailing between the pair since their split in 2009 and with Tina now also locked in another split riddle with new hubby Adam – things are looking less rosy than ever for the star/

But they aren't the only two to find themselves at loggerheads/

Flying Eze takes a look at their feud in more detail as well as some of the other soap stars who are at war.

Ryan Thomas and Tina O'Brien

Whilst they were once a soap love story fairytale – since their shock split a year after welcoming their daughter Scarlett in 2009, they have had one of showbiz's most fierce fall-outs.

It was widely known that the pair did not see eye-to-eye in the years following their split but things took a major turn when Tina smahed up Ryan's car with a baseball bat in a furious rage.

Sources told Flying Eze that tempers flared at 1am after Tina had been partying with pals.

A wing mirror of Ryan’s Range Rover was smashed off and the paintwork scratched during the bust-up.

He has accused Tina of causing the damage.

One source said: “Tina, who was at a pal’s house party, came out into the street to meet him as he drove up.

“Soon after that his car was damaged with the baseball bat.

“It was quite a disturbing incident and Ryan drove away as soon as he could.

“They’ve not spoken since and Ryan is furious.”;

A year later, Flying Eze told how the pair had a furious argument down the phone to one another.

A source told us: “Tina had a blazingrow with Ryan over the phone about their daughter – which ended with her hanging up.

“They rarely speak these days because they do tend to clash.”

She then shared a quote about ‘tyrannical narcissistic fathers'just hours after the alleged row.

Asan N’jie and Jamie Lomas

Soap fans were shocked when a video emerged from the 2019 TV Choice Awards of Emmerdale’s Asan N’jie threatening to stab Hollyoaks star Jamie Lomas.

It was later revealed that the brawl was over a financial dispute between Jamie – who plays Warren Fox on the Channel 4 soap – and one of Asan’s friends and co-stars.

Asan was sacked from his role of Ellis Chapman shortly after, and apologised in a statement.

He said: “I sincerely apologise to everybody who has been affected, especially Jamie Lomas, the whole Emmerdale team, our audience, ITV, my family and the organisers of the TV Choice Awards.

“I am devastated, accept full responsibility for my actions and I am determined to learn from this.”;

Five months after the fight Asan secured a role in one episode of the BBC drama Bloodlands, starring James Nesbitt.

Danielle Harold and Jamie Borthwick/Max Bowden

Soap princess Danielle has become a TV veteran since leaving the BBC soap and has become an in-demand star when it comes to reality TV.

As well as a stint in the I'm A Celeb jungle, she has appeared on Celebrity Hunted as well as Celebrity MasterChef.

But away from TV, it seems her relationships with her two closest EastEnders co-stars have truly gone down the pan.

Flying Eze were the first to reveal all on the secret feud when former on-screen couple Danielle and Jamie, who played Jay Brown, had unfollowed one another despite years of being close.

But their feud was all down to Danielle's falling-out with her secret ex, fellow former co-star Max Bowden.

Suspicion was sparked after they unfollowed each other on Instagram last week.

A source toldDaily Mail: “Danielle and Max dated for a number of years.

“Of course, it was known among the EastEnders cast and everyone thought they were sweet together.

“Their relationship hasn't ended on the best terms, and they have even unfollowed each other on Instagram.

“There are a lot of emotions after they were friends, colleagues, and romantically involved for such a long time.”

The situation was further complicated by Max publicly dating another co-star Shona McGarty.

Vicky Entwistle and Sue Cleaver

Sue Cleaver and Vicky Entwistle starred together on Corrie for 11 years, as Eileen Grimshaw and Janice Battersby, until 2011 when the latter left the show.

But, when Sue entered the I’m A Celebrity jungle last year, Vicky took to social media to seemingly make a dig at her former co-star.

Although she didn’t mention Sue’s name, she wrote: “Don't think I will watch I'm A Celeb this season, have a feeling it may become too toxic.

“I don't like pack mentality. It's often cruel and unbearable to watch, so I will give it a miss.”

Dame Barbara Windsor and Jessie Wallace

In 2010, shortly after leaving EastEnders, the late Dame Barbara Windsor revealed she got into a blazing row with her former co-star Jessie Wallace – who plays Kat Slater – when she arrived on set late.

Speaking on Life Stories with Piers Morgan, Barbara said: “Jessie Wallace was the first time I erupted.

“She was late, she was young. She’s not like that anymore.

“I lost my temper.”;

The actress, who died in December 2020, after suffering from Alzheimer’s Disease, continued: “It was silly and I burst into tears and ran up to the producer. I said I had been terrible and amateur.”;

Barbara and Jessie eventually made up, and the Peggy Mitchell star added: “We liked each other a lot and she is a good actress.

“But I told her not to be like that and arrive at the last minute. It was unprofessional.”

Roxanne Pallett and the entire Emmerdale cast

Roxanne Pallett shot to fame in Emmerdale, playing Jo Stiles from 2005 to 2008.

But it wasn’t until she went into the Celebrity Big Brother house, in 2018, that fans found out she’d upset pretty much everyone she’d ever worked with.

Roxanne was in the CBB house with Ryan Thomas – who also happened to be a good friend of her ex-boyfriend Richard Fleeshman, having starred in Corrie with him.

But things took a dark turn when Roxanne accused Ryan of punching her, crying in the Diary Room – seemingly forgetting she was constantly being filmed, so viewers could see what really happened was nothing of the sort.

Roxanne made sure Ryan got a warning, and viewers watched on as he sobbed over the accusations.

However, neither party realised that the entire nation was on his side, with viewers eventually crowning him the winner, and making sure Ofcom received 25,000 complaints for Roxanne’s lies.

Not only that, but 22 of Roxanne’s former Emmerdale co-stars complained about her on Twitter.

Nick Miles, who plays Jimmy King, wrote: “Anybody who has worked with this woman know’s she’s toxic. CBB must have known it too.”;

Nick added that people spoke up about Roxanne “throwing around accusations before she went in the CBB house”.

Following the outrage over Roxanne, Sammy Winward, who played Katie Sugden, added: “It’s been a long time coming.”

Kym Marsh and Steph Waring

Back in 2014, Hollyoaks star Stephanie Waring was left devastated when Corrie’s Kym Marsh started dating her ex Dan Hopper, just six weeks after their five-year relationship ended.

Stephanie, who has a 12-year-old daughter Lexi-Grace with Dan, lashed out at Kym, telling Flying Eze: “She's carried on with him knowing what it's done to me. It is killing me.

“I considered her a friend who I've known for years. I had no idea that she would ever do anything like this… There is an unwritten rule that if you are friends with somebody you don't go near their ex partners.”

Kym – who starred as Michelle Connor in Corrie from 2006 to 2019 – dismissed the claims, saying she was disappointed in her pal for not speaking to her in person.

Kym and Dan went on to have a whirlwind romance and even got engaged before splitting just a year later.

And in 2016, Steph – who plays Cindy Cunningham on Hollyoaks – apologised to Kym and hugged it out at a charity ball.

Sharing the moment on social media, she wrote: “I want to draw a line under everything that has been said in the past two years.

“This is about closure, forgiveness and me moving forward into next year.

“My biggest regret is talking about what happened with Kym in the first place. Kym's a mum and I'm a mum.

“I'm so sorry for putting her and her family through that. I shouldn't have lashed out.”

Jane Danson and Vicky Entwistle

Jane Danson and Vicky worked together on Corrie for years, with the former starring as Janice’s step-daughter Leanne Battersby.

But they fell out when Vicky put her foot in it on social media.

In November 2020, Corrie viewers watched as Leanne said goodbye to her terminally ill son Oliver.

While most fans were blown away by the emotional scenes, Vicky wasn’t.

She wrote: “But imagine if she had better writers behind her!!! That really would have been something.”;

Jane, obviously offended, replied: “That’s so disrespectful. They were some of the best scripts I have ever had.

“Shame on you for writing that! Very disappointed how mean that comment was!”;

Jane later deleted her tweet, and said she’d apologised to Jane privately.

She wrote: “I have apologised to @RealJaneDanson this morning. Rightly so. She is a wonderful actress! My tweet was childish & hurtful.

“I realise that & am truly sorry for any hurt I may have caused.”;

Jane later added to Flying Eze: “She did apologise, she said sorry.

“I think the problem with Twitter is people say things in the moment and often they sound a little bit harsher than what they were or people take it differently.

“On that occasion, yeah, I thought it was mean. But she did apologise so I suppose you have to draw the line.

“When you work really hard on something and somebody who understands that situation makes a comment like that, it is hurtful.

“So yeah I was a bit hurt by it but I’ve kind of let it go now!”;

James Sutton and Stephanie Davis

In 2015, when Stephanie Davis left her role of Sinead O’Connor in Hollyoaks, amid claims she turned up to work drunk, her co-star James Sutton – who plays John-Paul McQueen – made his feelings known.

He posted a picture of the Wizard of Oz’s Ding Dong the Witch is Dead, before adding, “All out of sympathy,”; and “Nine lives don’t last.”;

The following year, when Stephanie was on Celebrity Big Brother, James took to social media to vent once again.

He wrote: “My timeline is full of Big Brother s***e. Night all.”;

One of his followers replied: “You’ll miss your old mucker Stephanie Davis if you go to bed now lol.”;

But James simply replied: “I'd rather boil my head.”;

He later deleted the tweet.

Antony Cotton and John Thomson

John Thomson was only in Corrie for just over a year as children’s entertainer Jesse Chadwick.

But he clearly didn’t warm to Antony Cotton – who plays Sean Tully on the soap.

When Antony was on I’m A Celebrity in 2011, John took to Twitter, writing: “Antony Cotton – the truth will out.

“You nasty piece of work, you are doing yourself no favours.”;