Inside Hollywood’s biggest sibling feuds – years-long feud to family breakdown

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Noel and Liam Gallagher appear to have put their feud behind them (Image: Getty)

Oasis brothers Noel and Liam Gallagher had one of the most infamous falling outs in showbiz history which made news of their forthcoming tour even more astonishing.

While their relationship had always been tempestuous, their full on feud began in 2009 and both had repeatedly rejected any suggestion of a reunion. Their implosion came in France where they were set to headline the Rock en Seine festival in Paris.

An argument over an ad for Liam’s clothing line in the festival program escalated and according to Noel, Liam came into the dressing room wielding one of Noel’s guitars “like an axe” before smashing it.

This led Noel to make the shock announcement he was quitting the band, saying he “simply could not go on working with Liam a day longer.”

The band’s remaining tour dates were immediately cancelled, and the group disbanded with the brothers both undertaking their own projects.

With things now seemingly patched up between the pair, they are set to work together again on an epic tour next summer. But they are not the first celebrity siblings to struggle with their relationship. Express.co.uk has trawled the archives to uncover other famous sibling fall outs.

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Nadia and Julia Sawahla have had a tempestuous relationship over the years (Image: Getty)

Nadia and Julia Sawalha

Loose Women panelist Nadia has preivously admitted her sister, Absolutely Fabulous star Julia, helped her break into the acting world. But nowadays the pair don’t even follow each other on social media.

Their relationship has been up and down for decades. They initally fell out years ago when Nadia branded Julia’s then-boyfriend, actor Alan Davies, a “miserable git”. Although they weathered that storm and eventually made up, many more rows would follow.

In 2019, Julia accused Nadia of “destroying” her family and spreading “lies and rubbish” in a furious tweet. For her part Nadia has conceded their relationship is complicated.

She once admitted on Loose Women: “So we’ve always had periods of time in our life where we don’t speak. I always say I have the best time or the worst time of my life with her. It’s the same with both my sisters.”

Julia and Eric Roberts

Actor Eric Roberts accepts much of the blame for the issues between he and his Oscar winning sibling Julia. He has explained his substance abuse in the late ‘80s strained their relationship and said his difficult behavior at that time caused her and other family members to take a step back.

In his memoir, Runaway Train, he wrote: “I wouldn’t be surprised if they suffered from PTSD from when it was dangerous to be around me.”

He and Julia’s relationship fractured further when she supported his ex-girlfriend, Kelly Cunningham, in a custody battle for their daughter, actress Emma Roberts.

They supposedly rekindled their relationship after Julia’s twins were born in 2004. Then in 2018 he made an audacious statement to Vanity Fair claiming: “If it wasn’t for me, there would be no Julia Roberts and no Emma Roberts as celebrities, as actresses, and I’m very proud of that,” which was said not to sit well with Julia. He has since apologised for the remark describing it as “asinine”.

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Eric Roberts accepts much of the blame for the falling out with his sister Julia – pictured in 1986 (Image: Getty)

Ryan and Rhodri Giggs

This is possibly one of the most publicised sibling feuds of recent times as it was played out on the front pages of the tabloids after former footballer Ryan had an eight-year affair with his sister-in-law Natasha, Rhodri’s wife.

The illicit romance was exposed in 2011, and actor Rhodri hasn’t spoken to Ryan or his mum Lynne, since. Revealing how he learned of the pair’s indiscretion, he told the Almost Famous podcast host Barnaby Slater: “I found out on the day the papers put it out, her mum came to my house at six in the morning.”

The pair were divorced a year later and Rhodri has admitted it tore the whole family apart as he accused his mum and other family members of choosing Ryan over him.

He told Wales Online: “All my family seem to think I’m a serial killer or Fred West or something, that I must have done something so bad they don’t speak to me after what he did. It is what it is.”

Olivia de Havilland and Joan Fontaine

Proving that celebrity sibling feuds are not a modern phenomenon, classic cinema stars Olivia de Havilland and sister Joan Fontaine had a famously icy relationship.

Gone With The Wind star Olivia and Rebecca actress Joan had a rivalry from a young age that developed into full blown anomosity.

They were up for the same Oscar for best actor in 1942, and when Joan won Olivia refused to congratulate her sibling. Olivia eventually won her own Oscar seven years later.

Decades after their acting hey days, the public were reminded of their feud when, in 1975, Joan called out Olivia for supposedly failing to notify her about their mother’s death.

According to Time magazine, Olivia replied that Joan would’ve been too busy to attend the funeral anyway. The sisters gave each other the silent treatment for the next four decades until Joan’s death in December 2013.

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Christopher Ciccone and hsi sister Madonna resolved their differences before his death (Image: Getty)

Madonna and Christopher Ciccone

When Madonna’s younger brother Christopher died of cancer in October this year, the Queen of Pop revealed she did her “best to keep him alive as long as possible”.

However, her heartfelt social media post about his passing didn’t gloss over their feud, as she wrote: “We did not speak for sometime but when my brother got sick, we found our way back to each other.”

The pair worked closely together at the beginning of her career, but when he published his 2008 memoir, Life With My Sister Madonna, the two stopped speaking. However in 2012 Christopher told the Huffington post they were reconciled.

Just five years later in 2017, their feud was reignited when Christopher claimed Madonna had “blacklisted” him from Hollywood, and called her “horrific,” according to Page Six.

Two years later that all seemed to be forgotten when Christopher gave an interview to Radar. “I recently moved from Los Angeles back to Michigan where my father and family own a vineyard and winery …

“She regularly speaks to our dad while some of our siblings work at the winery. We are all united. “We are at peace now and just spoke last week,” he said.

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