Cole Sprouse Addressed Those Lili Reinhart Relationship Rumors

By Emily Lee

November 23, 2017

Cole Sprouse and Lili Reinhart have become quite a fixation for fans of their hit CW show Riverdale. Their characters Jughead and Betty - aka Bughead - have become the central romantic relationship on the teen drama and some fans suspect that their onscreen chemistry has bubbled over into their real lives. It's hard not to suspect that these two have taken their working relationship to a more personal level, too. Between their Instagram posts of each other, Lili being spotted out and about in Cole's clothes, and some fans spotting them getting cuddly, these two have certainly given fans the impression that they're an item IRL. Despite all this, the pair have stayed pretty mum on the subject and thanks to a new interview with Cole we now know why. 

In an interview with People, Cole opened up about why he tries to keep his personal life as personal as possible. While some celebrities are quite open about their lives - and even leverage their relationships as business opportunities - Cole simply just isn't one of them. He feels that he doesn't owe anybody anything, which is totally fair, especially when it comes to who he's dating. "Whether you dismiss those rumors or whether you encourage those rumors, itโ€™s giving people who are in my opinion are a bit entitled to your personal life more power," he explained to People, "and you have to have spaces for reverence in the industry." 

 "Going to college made me realize you have to have real spaces of privacy and you have to establish those early," Cole explained further. "[Ryan] Gosling is a perfect example. Gosling has been in a much more sexual or romantic side of the industry than many actors have to be, and his marriage is not publicized and talked about and beaten over peopleโ€™s heads because people respect that he set those boundaries early. And thatโ€™s the same thing, the more you let people in on that, the more people feel entitled to it and the more it becomes problematic with whoever you end up being with in the future, so I take that very seriously. So I just never talk about it because itโ€™s not anyoneโ€™s right to know. People can speculate all they want, people speculate about me with every member of the cast practically, but itโ€™s really no oneโ€™s right to know."

I'm not saying you should inhale helium... but here's a video of @colesprouse and I on set during episode 11.

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Whether they're together or not IRL, we can definitely still ship them on Riverdale. Bughead forever, am I right?

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