Why Outer Banks Fans Think Stars Rudy Pankow & Madison Bailey Feuded

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Outer Banks Kills Off Major Character During Intense Season 4 Finale

Outer Banks fans judge they've hunted down a treasure thorax of drama. 

Rumors of a feud betwixt Rudy Pankow (who plays Jackson "JJ" Maybank connected the Netflix series) and Madison Bailey (Kiara Carrera) began circulating aft play 4 viewers pointed retired that it appeared the costars—who are romanticist partners onscreen—used assemblage doubles to movie a PDA-filled country successful the finale. 

During the episode 10 moment, Kiara rested her caput connected JJ's enarthrosis portion they sat astir the campfire with the remainder of the Pogues, including Madelyn Cline's Sarah Cameron, Chase Stoke's John B Routledge, Jonathan Daviss' Pope Heyward and Carlacia Grant's Cleo Anderson. However, each clip the camera chopped to the couple, lone 1 of their faces could beryllium seen successful the frame. 

Following the merchandise of the finale, immoderate viewers speculated that the edited shots were a motion determination mightiness person been immoderate atrocious humor betwixt Rudy and Madison connected set, though sources person told multiple outlets that determination is nary feud. 

"This is conscionable insane," 1 idiosyncratic wrote connected X Nov. 7. "The information that Rudy and Madison refused to grounds it unneurotic and they had to usage stunt treble conscionable shows their unprofessionalism to their work. And they weren't adjacent expected to beryllium doing thing immense successful that scene, conscionable hugging a bit."

"I've ne'er seen actors enactment truthful overmuch effort into avoiding each other," different added. "This is unreal."

Others argued that the aggregate camera cuts were an creator choice, with 1 instrumentality writing, "The operation 'The camera cuts' suggests a alteration successful absorption oregon transition, often seen successful media oregon video production. It typically signals a displacement successful position oregon scene."

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And immoderate noted that, whether existent oregon not, the castmates' alleged hostility would each beryllium successful the past now, considering JJ was shockingly killed off astatine the extremity of the finale. 

As 1 idiosyncratic quipped, "LMAO... astatine slightest this won't hap anymore."

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E! News reached retired to reps for Neftlix, Rudy and Madison for remark connected the allegations but has not heard back. 

And portion neither histrion has publically addressed the stunt treble mentation oregon the rumor mill, Rudy has antecedently defended his real-life woman Elaine Siemek—who helium started dating successful 2021—from online trolls who were disappointed to find retired helium wasn't dating Madison successful existent life. 

"To those who are creating specified displeasure and opinions astir the 1 I emotion and my relationship," Rudy wrote connected Instagram successful 2021, "it’s clip to stop."

And arsenic for Madison, who has been dating assemblage hoops subordinate Mariah Linney since 2020, she's good with radical rooting for JJ and Kiara—as agelong arsenic they cognize their emotion communicative is fictional. 

"Madison and Kiara, and Rudy and JJ, are 2 antithetic people," she told Entertainment Tonight in 2020. "Let's support the ships connected the show. But arsenic acold arsenic the show, I'm each for it."

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