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Bughead is broken up in real life.
RiverdalestarsCole SprouseandLili Reinharthave reportedly split, according toUsWeeklyandE! News. Reps for both did not immediately return PEOPLE’s requests for comment.
Despite the split, Sprouse, 26, and Reinhart, 22, were seated next to each other during the show’s panel on Sunday, which she later joked about on Instagram.
“Please don’t put me between these two ever again,” she captioneda photo of her, Sprouse and Apaon Instagram.
Lili Reinhart and Cole Sprouse at Comic-Con on Sunday.Richard Shotwell/Invision/AP/Shutterstock
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The actors — who play love interests Betty Cooper and Jughead Jones on the CW’s soapy twist on the Archie comics — firstsparked romance rumorsin May 2017, when Sprouse shared a dreamy photo he took of Reinhart lounging in a flower field on Instagram.
They remained tight-lipped about the relationship for the next year, refusing to address the speculation. In March 2018, Sprouseopened up to PEOPLEabout their decision to stay mum.
“Because whether you dismiss those rumors or whether you encourage those rumors, it’s giving people who are in my opinion are a bit entitled to your personal life more power, and you have to have spaces for reverence in the industry,” he explained. “So I just never talk about it because it’s not anyone’s right to know. People can speculate all they want, people speculate about me with every member of the cast practically, but it’s really no one’s right to know. It’s also sexy, these parts of the relationships that are just yours.”
Less than two months later, however, theyseemingly confirmed they were an itemwhen they posed arm-in-arm on the red carpet of the 2018 Met Gala.
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Reinhart was also reluctant to discuss the coupling. In an interview withHarper’s Bazaarin July 2018, the actress declined to address the highly speculated romance, explaining that her privacy is sacred: “I don’t act to be famous. I just am a performer.”
“I’m not okay talking about my relationship,” she said. “I’m not going to tell you my love story. That’s just not appropriate right now.”
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Despite regularly stepping out together andposting about each other on social media, they remained notoriously private about the relationship. In a cover interview forTeen Vogue‘s October 2018 issue, Reinhart said it’s because “it’s just between two people, and that’s the way it should be.”
That said, she did reveal one small detail.
“I like togo on adventureswith Cole,” she said. “Truly, adventures. Hetakes me to placeswhere I’m like, ‘How did you find this?’ He’s made me see these things that I would have never seen otherwise. It’s escapism, which is so beautiful and wonderful.”
Cole Sprouse and Lily Reinhart at the 2019 Met Gala.Neilson Barnard/Getty
Sprouse also guarded the relationship close to his chest.
“It’s not something that we hide, or it’s not something that we show off,” he toldGQin February. “It’s just something that exists.”
source: people.com
