Beyoncé Giselle Knowles is a music legend.
The multiple Grammy winner delighted fans earlier this month when she dropped her surprise new solo studio album Renaissance.
While the mother-of-three has millions of doting fans in her Beyhive, she’s also made a few enemies in her time.
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The Break My Soul hitmaker has endured alleged feuds with fellow celebrities including Rihanna, Kim Kardashian and Piers Morgan across her decades-long career in music and film.
As she turns 41, Daily Star takes a look inside Beyoncé’s biggest ever rumoured feuds.
Rihanna
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The genesis of the alleged feud between Beyoncé and Rihanna began with false gossip.
Upon the release of Rihanna’s debut single in 2006, her former publicist Johnathan Hay spread a rumour that she had hooked up with Bey’s partner Jay Z – who had recently signed Rihanna to his record label.
Confirming the rumour had been a “PR stunt” years later, Hay told Inside Edition: “It was reckless and I didn’t think it was going to work.
“I was just throwing spaghetti at the wall to see what would stick.”
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Fresh feud rumours were sparked between the pair in 2016 when Rihanna allegedly liked an Instagram post which referenced her Anti single Desperado charting higher than Bey’s Grammy-nominated Formation.
Rihanna later denied she had liked the post in a dig at Beyoncé and dashed all claims of a feud, telling Vogue: “They just get so excited to feast on something that’s negative.
“Something that’s competitive. Something that’s, you know, a rivalry.
“And that’s just not what I wake up to.”
Kim Kardashian
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Rumours of a feud between Kim Kardashian and Beyoncé began shortly after Kim began dating Kanye West.
The duo were pictured with their respective partners at a number of events though speculation soon began that Bey wasn’t a fan of the reality star.
Relations between the celebs are said to have soured further when both Beyoncé and Jay-Z failed to attend Kim and Kanye’s Paris wedding in 2014.
After Kanye addressed the snub on stage, a feud between he and Jay-Z song began – with a source telling Page Six: “Beyoncé has never genuinely liked Kim.
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“She’s mostly tolerated her because of their husbands’ friendship and [their] mutual friends, like Jennifer Lopez.”
Despite years of speculation, Beyoncé seemed to squash the feud rumours over recent years by extending an olive branch to Kim.
Last year, Bey wished The Kardashians star a happy birthday via social media.
In July, Kim also excitedly revealed to fans on Instagram that Bey had sent her a number of items from her Ivy Park line in a thoughtful gift package.
Piers Morgan
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Piers Morgan added his name to Bey’s list when he slammed her critically-hailed Lemonade album in 2016.
In an op-ed for the Daily Mail, the controversial broadcaster accused the singer of adding a “far more serious, deeply political and race-fuelled tone to her work”.
Piers also accused Bey of ‘shamelessly exploiting’ the grieving mothers of two black men murdered in the US.
While Bey kept publicly quiet on Piers’ criticism, her fellow celebrities soon sprang to her defence.
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In an open response to Piers’ essay, singer and former Loose Women star Jamelia wrote: “Let me break this down for you; Beyoncé’s album is not an attack on anyone, it is a celebration of the strength, endurance and potential within black woman-hood.
“The fact that you are mad/uncomfortable/agitated about it, is evidence enough of how blind you are to the realities of being one.”
On the back of Piers’ piece, How To Get Away With Murder star Matt McGory also engaged him in a Twitter row on Bey’s behalf.
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