Jameela Jamil has never been afraid to call out other celebrities when she has an issue with them.
The outspoken host of the “Wrong Turn” podcast has clashed publicly with the Kardashian family over the years and even compared Blake Lively to a “suicide bomber” in private text messages released as part of Lively’s legal battle with It Ends With Us director Justin Baldoni.
“I think a lot of people in the public don’t speak out about things that they could well use their platform to speak out with,” Jamil told Us Weekly in 2019 about her outspoken nature. “They’re afraid of sticking their neck out because if you do, your head gets chopped off.”
She went on, “What I’m trying to be is someone in the public eye who’s owning up to my mistakes, owning up to my ignorance and willfully educating, showing people that I’m educating myself and educating them alongside me. I try to involve and engage other people with my journey so that we can all grow together. Rather than coming at it with an ego.”
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Keep scrolling for a rundown of Jamil’s numerous clashes with other celebrities.
Blake Lively
Jameela Jamil was unexpectedly brought into the drama between Blake Lively and It Ends With Us director Justin Baldoni in January 2026. With Baldoni and Lively gearing up for a legal showdown in May 2026, a series of private text messages sent by both parties and their supporters were released as evidence.
Us obtained court documents that included an August 2024 text exchange between Jamil and Baldoni’s publicist Jennifer Abel where they discussed the It Ends With Us drama.
“I want to officially incorporate nightmare c*** and demon c*** into my vocabulary; UNBELIEVABLE; She’s doing this to herself,” Abel wrote about Lively, with Jamil replying: “She’s a suicide bomber at this point.”
When Lively shared a link to domestic violence resources via social media, Jamil dinged her post for being “so cold.”
“I’m thinking about having Justin share it, along with a wink emoji,” Abel replied, with Jamil writing back: “Ahahaha no keep him away from her; keep him silence [sic]; Keep him in Sweden.”
In another message, Jamil accused Lively of putting on a “bizarre villain” act. A source subsequently told Us that it was “disappointing that instead of listening to women when they speak out, other women call them names and discredit them in defense of a fake male feminist.”
Jamil defended herself by insisting that her dispute with Lively had no bearing on her credentials as a feminist activist.
“Guys, feminism means fighting for the political, social and economic equity of women, for women,” Jamil said via her Instagram Story as the texts made headlines in January 2026. “Just gender equity. It does not mean you have to like every single woman. It doesn’t mean you have to be friends with every single woman.”
Jamil maintained that feminists can “actually beef with other women” as long as they are still “fighting for their human right to the same things that men have.”
“That’s all feminism is. It is a moral and political stance. It is not a sleepover where we braid each other’s pubes OK?” she said. “So if you are fighting for women’s rights but you don’t get along with every single woman, it doesn’t make you a bad feminist. You’re still a feminist.”
Jamil concluded, “Keep fighting for those rights and thank you for fighting for those rights.”
The Kardashians
Jameela Jamil ended up in a spat with the whole Kardashian family after she took issue with Khloé Kardashian posting about diet culture via Instagram in January 2019. (At the time, Kardashian wrote via Instagram: “2 things a girl wants: 1) lose weight 2) eat.”)
“Sending love to this poor woman,” Jamil replied. “This industry did this to her. The media did it to her. They fat shamed her into a prison of self critique. Dear girls, WANT MORE THAN THIS.”
However, Jamil’s reaction turned critical that March when Kardashian promoted meal replacement Flat Tummy Tea via Instagram.
“If you’re too irresponsible to: a) own up to the fact that you have a personal trainer, nutritionist, probable chef, and a surgeon to achieve your aesthetic, rather than this laxative product… And b) tell them the side effects of this NON-FDA approved product, that most doctors are saying aren’t healthy … then I guess I have to,” Jamil quipped.
Weeks later, Jamil exclusively told Us that she was “not trying to cancel” Kardashian but rather encourage her to “start being more responsible … for the mental health of young people.”
The Kardashians addressed the criticism in a New York Times profile that April, with Khloé insisting that she only ever showed off her real life style via social media. Her sister Kim Kardashian clarified that the family strictly endorse products that they actually use.
“If there is work that is really easy that doesn’t take away from our kids, that’s like a huge priority,” Kim told the Times. “If someone was faced with the same job opportunities, I think they would maybe consider.”
“Essentially, ‘f*** the young, impressionable people, or those struggling with eating disorders, we want the money,’” Jamil later tweeted to the Kardashians.
When she noticed that Khloé eventually took down the meal replacement tea advertisement, Jamil celebrated, writing, “There is hope after all.”
The “Bad Dates” host told Us in May 2019 that she didn’t “dislike” the Kardashians despite their contentious public discourse.
“I just want them to stop selling powder from the Internet to make people thinner because it doesn’t [work],” Jamil said.
Quentin Tarantino
The Good Place alum’s beef with Quentin Tarantino stemmed from the director’s decision to cast Emile Hirsch in his 2019 movie, Once Upon a Time in Hollywood. Hirsch previously pleaded guilty to misdemeanor assault in August 2015 for allegedly attacking film executive Daniele Bernfeld at the Sundance Film Festival that January. (Hirsch told the “Happy Sad Confused” podcast in 2016 that he was “so sorry for what happened and still just shocked even that it happened.”)
“Cool. Emile Hirsch strangled my tiny female best friend until she blacked out at a party in front of dozens of witnesses at Sundance Film Festival (and was convicted) but Tarantino just cast him in a movie,” Jameela Jamil tweeted at the time.
Jamil later told Us Weekly in January 2019 that she had no regrets about calling out Tarantino for working with Hirsch.
“I’m not gonna shut up about it until I hear a public apology from him that is an ‘I’m sorry for what happened,’” Jamil insisted. “Is that gonna stop me from being in a Quentin Tarantino movie? Fine. I stand for women. If I fail in this industry and do the right thing, I would rather that than succeed in this industry doing the wrong thing.”
Cardi B
Much like her beef with the Kardashians, Jameela Jamil’s dispute with Cardi B revolved around the rapper endorsing detox teas. In a November 2018 promotional video, Cardi credited a meal replacement product with helping her lose weight after giving birth to daughter Kulture Kiari that July.
“They got Cardi B on the laxative nonsense ‘detox’ tea,” the actress tweeted in November 2018. “GOD I hope all these celebrities all s*** their pants in public.”
Cardi clapped back in the comments section of a fan’s Instagram post about Jamil, joking, “I will never s*** my pants cause there’s public bathrooms… oooo and bushes.”
Jamil wasn’t ready to back down, as she later alleged that Cardi probably didn’t even use the product she was endorsing.
“She will never s*** her pants, not because of bushes, but because she probably doesn’t ever take the products she promotes… during her promotional video she keeps looking at the name of the product on the cup… almost as if she’s never seen it,” Jamil alleged.
Piers Morgan
The bad blood between Piers Morgan and Jameela Jamil dates back to the death of former Love Island UK host and Jamil’s friend Caroline Flack. (Flack died by suicide at age 40 in February 2020.)
Morgan revealed that Flack reached out to him in October 2019 to ask for help in dealing with Jamil’s criticism of her plastic surgery-themed reality show The Surjury. The Channel 4 series would have involved people pitching their concept for cosmetic surgery to a panel of judges but it never aired.
Jamil originally took issue with The Surjury because it was a “VERY surreal concept that (perhaps unintentionally) [that] will prey on people’s insecurities.”
“Jameela Jamil is having a lot to say about online harassment, so in the interests of balance, here is a message Caroline Flack sent me last October after the same Jameela Jamil led an online pile-on against her regarding a new TV show she was doing,” Morgan tweeted in February 2020.
In those purported DMs, Flack wrote that she was “struggling with Jameela” and “the hate she aims at me.” Once Morgan released Flack’s alleged private DMs, Jamil denied that she ever personally blamed Flack for The Surjury’s concept.
“I simply said I found the show ‘surjury’ (not her) problematic for kids to watch,” Jamil tweeted. “And that Love Island needed some more diversity. Both times Caroline instigated debate with ME even though I was not targeting or blaming her at all. I always just politely explained my point.”
Jamil went on, “Piers Using a dead woman who I was friends with, as a weapon to try to create further harassment for me as I’ve JUST explained publicly that last week I felt suicidal… is why he is this industry’s most problematic. My criticizing a *show* did not aim any hate at Caroline.”
The feud carried on when Morgan left the British daytime series Good Morning Britain in March 2021 following his controversial comments about Meghan Markle’s mental health.
“May we NEVER have to watch minorities have to go on mainstream news and have to *defend* their right to be treated with dignity and respect… ever again. All while being screamed over by this man [Morgan],” Jamil tweeted at the time.
Jamil alleged that she “almost killed [herself] a year ago because of Piers Morgan’s relentless campaign of lies and hatred” in the wake of Flack’s death.
“I’m glad I’m still alive today for many reasons,” she went on. “But watching him leave GMB today is right up there and has me feeling [great].”
Sara Sampaio
Victoria’s Secret model Sara Sampaio had a multi-day social media argument with Jameela Jamil in October 2019 over body image issues in the fashion industry. The beef started when Jamil commented positively on footage of the Colours of Africa runway at Vienna Fashion Week.
“Not a long-starved terrified teenager in sight,” Jamil tweeted.
Sampaio disagreed with the description of models as “long-starved” and asked Jamil to try “celebrating someone without bringing other people down.”
“Calling runway models ‘long-starved terrified teenager’ is extremely offensive. From someone that is always preaching for body positivity this just screams hypocrisy,” Sampaio tweeted.
Jamil replied that she was not referring to “all models,” before accusing Sampaio of “living in a bubble” if she didn’t recognize body image issues and drug use in the industry.
“You didn’t say all models, sure, but you still chose to attack girls just so you can celebrate others,” Sampaio fired back. “Eating disorders, drugs and cocaine use aren’t a[n] exclusive problem of models, it’s a huge problem [in] society as a whole. And when you talk like you know for sure majority of [them have] eating disorders and drug problems, when that’s not the case. And about modeling I can for sure talk with more certainty than you. Sure that happens but it’s for sure not a vast majority. The point of my tweet though, wasn’t that one! And you know!”
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She went on, “It’s very simple to celebrate someone without having [to] drag other people. And make general negative assumptions about a whole group of people. Most of these girls are teenagers! And they don’t deserved to be constantly put in a negative box like you just did.”
Jamil clarified that she encouraged “moving away from all talk of body” in order to “combat our current pervasive issue of eating disorder culture, which is in NO small way perpetuated by the extreme thinness demanded of girls by the high fashion powers that be.”
“Um I was a model, and a model agent and a lot of my friends are still models and agents,” Jamil also pointed out. “Who are all struggling with ongoing unrealistic standards of this industry you benefit from, which is why you are fiercely defending it, and asking me to not call out its devastating wrongs.”
When Sampaio tried to end the social media interaction, Jamil accused her of “proudly work[ing] for a transphobic, fat phobic company” in Victoria’s Secret. (Victoria’s Secret denied accusations of transphobia and said in 2018 that the brand “would cast a transgender model” in one of its shows. Trans models Valentina Sampaio and Alex Consani walked in Victoria’s Secret runway shows in 2024.)
“Victoria’s Secret is a brand that sets out to exclude most women, so I would check yourself on that before you start policing me for calling out an industry wide epidemic of harm to young girls,” Jamil complained.
In response, Sara wrote that she “proudly work[ed] for a company that has made mistakes and that understands that and has been working on changing that.”
“I’m also not someone that is going to resource on personal attacks to try to win some stupid twitter feud,” she insisted.
Jamil replied, “If you’re speaking out against what your company did then GREAT. I look forward to seeing your activism on that with your big profile. You seem passionate about speaking out. So best of luck to you on helping young girls and trans people in this business.”
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