Madison Bailey and Rudy Pankow Win Best Kiss at MTV Awards

Too sizzling to deal with! Madison Bailey and Rudy Pankow received the coveted Best Kiss class at the 2023 MTV Movie & TV Awards.

Neither Outer Banks actor appeared at the Sunday, May 7, occasion. The present canceled the crimson carpet final minute and moved to a pre-taped format amid the Writers Guild of America planning to picket the occasion and host Drew Barrymore dropping out to point out her assist for the writers strike. (Barrymore will host the 2024 occasion.) Stars together with Pedro Pascal, Ariana Madix and Jennifer Coolidge pre-taped acceptance speeches, however there was no speech aired from Pankow and Bailey.

Year after yr, the Best Kiss award is among the most anticipated classes at the MTV Movie & TV Awards — and the 2023 nominees solely added to the hype.

Anna Torv and Philip Prajoux had been up for The Last of Us whereas Harry Styles and David Dawson bought a nod for My Policeman. From the small display screen, the Outer Banks stars had been nominated, Riley Keough and Sam Claflin for Daisy Jones & the Six and Selena Gomez and Cara Delevingne for Only Murders within the Building.

Ahead of the awards present, greater than one of many pairings triggered a stir for his or her scene-stealing smooches. Bailey and Pankow, each 24, turned heads on season 3 of Outer Banks as their respective characters, Kiara and JJ, lastly crossed the road from pals to lovers.

“I think … the end game of the OBX, I can see JJ and Kiara being like, ‘All right, there’s something here,’” Pankow solely informed Us Weekly in April 2020 forward of the season 3 romance.

Bailey, for her half, informed Decider in February that followers would “finally” see the characters “act on their chemistry that has been present since season 1,” noting that the kiss was “slightly overdue.”

Gomez and Delevingne, each 30, additionally acquired an outpouring of affection from viewers after they locked lips on season 2 of Only Murders within the Building.

“It was just fun,” Delevingne recalled of the onscreen second throughout a June 2022 look on E!’s While You Were Streaming. “Would anyone in the world not like to kiss Selena?”

The mannequin added: “It was just hysterical. It’s just one of those things, especially when you know someone so well, it’s the comfortability and you kind of have fun with it.”

As in years previous, followers tuned in to the MTV Movie & TV Awards to see whether or not the actors who took dwelling the Best Kiss popcorn trophy would steam up the stage throughout their acceptance speech.

In 2000, a roar erupted at the awards present when Selma Blair and Sarah Michelle Gellar shared a peck on stage after profitable for his or her over-the-top makeout session in Cruel Intentions.

Five years later, Ryan Gosling and Rachel McAdams — who had been then a real-life couple — shocked the viewers with their steamy kiss. (The pair referred to as it quits in 2007 after two years of courting.)

After profitable the accolade for his or her work in The Notebook, McAdams, now 44, famously ran throughout the stage and leapt up into Gosling’s arms to share a passionate kiss. The La La Land star, now 42, then proceeded to carry onto his then-girlfriend and get lost backstage.

In more moderen historical past, Chase Stokes and Madelyn Cline introduced the warmth after they accepted the 2021 award.

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Stokes, 30, was in the course of thanking the Outer Banks creators when Cline, 25, informed him to “shut up” and laid an enormous smooch on him. The duo, who dated from spring 2020 to fall 2021, continued to make out for a number of seconds as the group cheered.