By Breaking Celebrity News Staff

With the Mayan calendar ticking away, tensions were escalated quite a bit in 2012, and the celebrity population was not exempt from the bad blood.

Some of the issues that started the feuds tapped right into the vein of pop culture, be it the Kardashian family's all-sizzle, no-steak approach to show business; Chris Brown's inability to distance himself from his 2009 goring of Rihanna; Mel Gibson's inability to ta