High school mayhem, secret twins, cults — a typical day on Riverdale, where real drama seemed to spill from script to set. With Cheryl Blossom’s red-lipped confidence and the rest of the cast looking like a teen soap fever dream, rumors grew faster than maple trees in Blossom Groves. In the midst of romance conspiracies, Madeline Petsch, Riverdale’s flame-haired icon, suddenly became the lead in a mystery written by the tabloids themselves.

 Rumor mills work overtime where teen drama and chemistry collide, but Madeline Petsch is ready to swap gossip for gospel.

Madeline Petsch put the rumor mill in detention, for probably good. Taking the chance of being on-air, Petsch decidedly took the stage on the Call Me Daddy podcast to air out the tales being twisted to no end. The actress asserted that she "did not touch a single person on that show with a ten-foot pole", even repeating herself to make her point crystal clear. The actress addressed any and all breathless headlines claiming the Riverdale cast spent more time swapping lovers than lines, firmly stating nothing of the sort happened in her trailer or anywhere else.

Doubling down, Madeline Petsch also declared on the Call Me Daddy podcast that, be it on-screen sparks or off-screen liaisons, "I do not mix business with pleasure like that". And following in the footsteps of her denouncement, all whispers of Blossom-Archie or Blossom-Toni stood extinguished. Fiction is one thing, but for Petsch, work romance joined the pile of Riverdale’s outlandish plot twists that she would shed as soon as done. 

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 While co-stars mixed scripts with sparks off-camera, Petsch kept her heart and retakes strictly professional, proving some flames just burn on screen.

Meanwhile, Madeline Petsch's Riverdale co-stars were acting out a different script. Camila Mendes and Charles Melton’s steamy on-screen chemistry spilled into a real relationship. Cole Sprouse and Lili Reinhart went from high school sweethearts to tabloid targets. KJ Apa faced speculation of his own. Through it all, Petsch proved the only spark she felt on set was professional, not personal, never locking lips or catching feelings for any colleague, no matter what any headline screamed.

To pour water over the plot, Petsch even reveals it was Cole Sprouse who played the oracle, advising Petsch not to "hook up with any of your co-stars". Ironically, Sprouse and Lili Reinhart became ’s most headline-grabbing couple. Regardless, Petsch took his advice, keeping her private life far from the one of the most tremendously fallen out: Riverdale’s tangled vines and showing that not every soap star wants the off-set melodrama, sometimes the only thing worth mixing on set is hair dye.

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