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Betty White’s ‘Golden Girls’ castmate once called her the C-word
The late Betty White’s “Golden Women” co-stars may not have been her largest followers.
Joel Thurm, who oversaw the casting of the “Golden Women” as head of expertise for NBC on the time, claimed Rue McClanahan (Blanche Devereaux) and Bea Arthur (Dorothy Zbornak) particularly had points with White throughout an look on “The Originals” podcast. White handed away on New 12 months’s Eve in 2021.
“The ladies hated her,” Thurm informed journalist Andrew Goldman when requested if the solid received alongside.
“Actually Bea Arthur, who I solid in one thing else in a while, simply mentioned, ‘Oh, she’s a f–king c–t,’ utilizing that phrase,” Thurm defined.
Betty White apparently didn’t get alongside together with her “Golden Women” co-stars.
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“Bea Arthur referred to as Betty White a C-word?” Goldman questioned.
“Yeah, she referred to as her the C-word. I imply, I heard that with my very own ears,” Thurm replied. “And by the way in which, so did Rue McClanahan. Rue McClanahan mentioned it to me in Joe Allen’s; Bea Arthur on the set of ‘Beggars and Choosers.’”
Nonetheless, Thurm’s publicist clarified to Fox Information Digital that McClanahan didn’t use the c-word to explain White, however as a substitute claimed the actress mentioned that White “could possibly be a b–ch” throughout an outing at Joe Allen’s.
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Bea Arthur, who starred as Dorothy Zbornak within the present, allegedly referred to White as a c–t, in keeping with the “Golden Women” casting director.
Arthur handed away in 2009 and McClanahan handed away in 2010. Nonetheless, Arthur’s son Matthew Saks has spoken concerning the rumored feud.
“You understand, I’m at all times being requested the query if my mother hated Betty White,” Saks beforehand informed Fox Information Digital. “It’s not the way in which it’s. I believe my mother had some issues together with her, however she favored her.
“I believe it was George Bernard Shaw who mentioned it’s enjoyable to hate your neighbors,” he went on. “And I believe what he meant was that everybody wants somebody to say, ‘Oh, right here she goes!’ All of us have to have any person that we will let get beneath our pores and skin.”
Arthur’s alleged dislike didn’t go each methods. White apparently adored Arthur, in keeping with McClanahan.
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The 2 had utterly completely different types of performing which led to Arthur’s alleged dislike of White, in keeping with an interview McClanahan did in 2009.
“Bea got here from a New York stage viewpoint,” she mentioned. “She at all times had what we name ‘the fourth wall.’ And Betty got here from a tv viewpoint. She would flirt with the viewers, and pull up her skirt and say, ‘Hello, sailor.’ However Bea by no means acknowledged the viewers.”
McClanahan additionally famous that the detest didn’t essentially go each methods.
“Betty was an enormous fan of Bea,” she had mentioned. “Bea’s emotions about Betty weren’t mutual. She actually did love Bea.”
