The Hulu reality series The Girls has a pre-premiere co-star feud, and it is landing with the headline it was probably built to land with. Khloé Kardashian’s longtime best friend Malika Haqq told Page Six‘s Virtual Reali-Tea podcast that her castmate Natalie Halcro is the self-centered one in the group. The line came in an exclusive interview, dated August 20, 2026, that Page Six‘s Samantha Nungesser, Evan Real, and Danny Murphy conducted with Haqq ahead of the show’s debut. The story has the shape of a Hulu marketing hit: two named cast members, three named reporters, two named quotes, and a third-party defender on the record.
Haqq did not hedge. She told Virtual Reali-Tea: I don’t think any one of us is messy. I think one of us is self-centered. She named Halcro specifically. I think Natalie thinks about herself a lot. She characterized Halcro as showing a lack of accountability by thinking too much about herself, and she said the cast had tried to confront Halcro with their concerns. The framing positions Haqq as the cast truth-teller and Halcro as the difficult personality, which is the show’s narrative tension going into the premiere. Haqq hedged slightly on Halcro’s character, speculating that Halcro might not be as comfortable being as forthright as, say, Yris Palmer is, or she’s just a little more sensitive. That softer read is what makes the broader story believable. Haqq did not call Halcro a villain. She called her a person who needs to grow up.
The defense was immediate. Page Six ran a separate interview with Halcro’s WAGS LA castmates Nicole Williams English and Olivia Pierson, both of whom rushed to her defense. The framing is the Page Six house style: present one cast member’s read first, give the named co-stars the rebuttal in the same article, and let the reader weight the two sides. That structure has been Page Six’s signature reality TV play for years. It works because the readers will reach their own verdict on which side sounds more credible, and the show gets the pre-release conflict that drives pre-premiere social engagement.
The background is WAGS LA. Natalie Halcro was one of the principal cast members across all three seasons of the E! reality series that ran from 2015 to 2017, alongside Nicole Williams English and Olivia Pierson. WAGS LA was the show that put the Halcro family on the celebrity map, and the Halcro name has stayed in celebrity gossip through a chain of personal-life stories that followed the show’s end. Haqq’s path is the more Kardashian-adjacent one: she grew up with Khloé, became a fixture on Kardashian-adjacent reality TV through her own show Khloé and Lamar with her sister Khadijah, and now joins The Girls with the rest of the cast. The two paths cross on a Hulu production, and the tension on screen is doing the off-screen promotional work for the show.
The Hulu series The Girls is part of Hulu’s broader reality TV push, with Page Six’s Virtual Reali-Tea as the consistent press partner for the platform’s reality shows. The Page Six YouTube channel hosts the longer-form Virtual Reali-Tea podcast conversations, with the dedicated clip covering The Girls’ cast running through the cast members’ relationships, the season one drama, and the framing for the upcoming premiere. The Malika and Natalie conflict is the lead promo for that release. Hulu’s reality TV marketing has leaned into the Page Six interview format for years. The cast knows the format works, and the lead interview reads as cast-staged rather than cast-spontaneous.
The Tori Spelling and Jennie Garth podcast feud that the sheet title also references sits alongside the Malika and Natalie story. Page Six’s same article surfaces additional cast conflict involving Spelling and Garth, both of whom appear on The Girls or are connected to its broader cast. That second layer is what turns a single cast fight into a multi-front premiere narrative. The cast is not just feuding with itself. They are feuding in patterns Page Six has learned to package for Hulu.
For BuzzWire’s read: reality TV premieres are sold on pre-release conflict, and Page Six is the trade’s most reliable vehicle for it. The Malika and Natalie story is built for that format, and the Hulu platform is the obvious home for it. The question for the show is whether the cast conflict sustains past the premiere or burns out in week two. The pattern in this corner of reality TV is that the lead feud runs for one season and the cast either reconciles or splits. The Girls will get its first read on that when the premiere drops and the post-show press cycle begins.
