{"id":2029971,"date":"2025-09-17T22:21:00","date_gmt":"2025-09-17T22:21:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/?p=2029971"},"modified":"2025-09-17T22:21:00","modified_gmt":"2025-09-17T22:21:00","slug":"madelaine-petsch-sets-record-straight-on-riverdale-cast-hookups","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/madelaine-petsch-sets-record-straight-on-riverdale-cast-hookups\/","title":{"rendered":"Madelaine Petsch sets record straight on &#8216;Riverdale&#8217; cast hookups"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p>Madelaine Petsch emphatically denied hooking up with her \u201cRiverdale\u201d co-stars after KJ Apa revealed <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2025\/08\/25\/entertainment\/kj-apa-was-a-virgin-before-riverdale-reveals-co-star-hookups\/\">he lost his virginity <\/a>while on the scripted show.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMay I set the record straight about\u00a0\u2018Riverdale,\u2019 actually?\u201d the actress, 31, <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=0PzuqLc5SbA\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">said on the \u201cCall Her Daddy\u201d podcast <\/a>Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cRecently, an article came out saying that we all f\u2013ked each other on the show. I did not touch a single person on that show with a 10-foot pole.\u201d <\/p>\n<p>She further clarified, \u201cMay I repeat that one more time? I did not f\u2013k a single person on \u2018Riverdale.\u2019 I never touched them. That\u2019s what happened. Thank you for coming to my TED talk.\u201d<\/p>\n<figure class=\"nyp-slideshow-modal-image wp-block-image aligncenter size-full\"><figcaption>Madelaine Petsch denied sleeping with \u201cRiverdale\u201d co-stars on Wednesday\u2019s episode of \u201cCall Her Daddy.\u201d  <span class=\"credit\">\u00a9CW Network\/Courtesy Everett Collection<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure class=\"nyp-slideshow-modal-image wp-block-image aligncenter size-full\"><figcaption>\u201cI never touched them. That\u2019s what happened,\u201d she said in a spirited rant.   <span class=\"credit\">Faye Sadou\/MediaPunch<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<aside class=\"single__inline-module aligncenter wp-block-nypost-editor-primary-tag\">\n<\/aside>\n<p>Petsch said when she read Apa\u2019s interview with Entertainment Weekly, she thought to herself, \u201c\u2018Hey, no, I did not f\u2013k any of you.&#8217;\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI don\u2019t claim that s\u2013t at all. I don\u2019t mix business and pleasure like that. I\u2019ve never hooked up with a co-star,\u201d she added.<\/p>\n<p>Petsch shared that her co-star Cole Sprouse \u2014 who was<a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/pagesix.com\/2023\/03\/07\/cole-sprouse-lili-reinhart-and-i-did-a-lot-of-damage-to-each-other\/\"> in a relationship with castmate Lili Reinhart<\/a> for several years during the series \u2014 advised her to cross professional lines with other actors on the show.<\/p>\n<p>The \u201cSightless\u201d star said she responded during that candid discussion, \u201c\u2018Okay, got it. I won\u2019t,&#8217;\u201d and added that Sprouse\u2019s tip was \u201cthe best advice [she\u2019s] ever been given.\u201d<\/p>\n<figure class=\"nyp-slideshow-modal-image wp-block-image aligncenter size-full\"><figcaption>\u201cI don\u2019t mix business and pleasure like that. I\u2019ve never hooked up with a co-star,\u201d she said.  <span class=\"credit\">Tony DiMaio\/SilverHub\/REX\/Shutterstock<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure class=\"nyp-slideshow-modal-image wp-block-image aligncenter size-full\"><figcaption>The actress\u2019s comments come several weeks after co-star KJ Apa claimed cast members hooked up during the show\u2019s run.  <span class=\"credit\">\u00a9CW Network\/Courtesy Everett Collection \/ Everett Collection<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>In August, Apa told Entertainment Weekly that his \u201cRiverdale\u201d co-stars \u2014 which aside from Petsch also included Camila Mendes, Casey Cott and Charles Melton \u2014 fooled around with each other.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere\u2019s a lot of drama that comes on shows like that. Not to say in like a gossipy kind of way, but it\u2019s just part of the environment, I guess \u2014 part of the deal,\u201d he told the outlet at the time.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYou hook up with them, people hook up with each other.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t<iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"100% \" height=\"50\" src=\"https:\/\/embeds.nypost.com\/protected-iframe\/7243f1477b3245f2f0745dd957e58dbc\" scrolling=\"auto\" frameborder=\"0\" class=\"\" allow=\"camera; fullscreen;\"><br \/>\n\t<\/iframe><\/p>\n<figure class=\"nyp-slideshow-modal-image wp-block-image aligncenter size-full\"><figcaption>\u201cYou hook up with them, people hook up with each other,\u201d Apa told Entertainment Weekly in August.  <span class=\"credit\">Art Streiber\/The CW<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure class=\"nyp-slideshow-modal-image wp-block-image aligncenter size-full\"><figcaption>Apa also claimed he was \u201ca virgin\u201d when he began working on the show in 2017.  <span class=\"credit\">\u00a9CW Network\/Courtesy Everett Collection<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Apa, 28, told the publication that, prior to starring on the CW series, he waited to get intimate with someone because he considered himself \u201ca proud Christian boy.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>However, when he decided to have sex with an unnamed actor on the show, he said things started \u201chappening\u201d and it all got \u201ca little complicated.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThen you\u2019re on set, and now you\u2019re fighting with them,\u201d he added without naming his hookup partner.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cRiverdale\u201d aired on the CW from 2017 to 2023 for seven seasons.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><em> \u2018 The preceding article may include information circulated by third parties \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n<p><em> \u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source pagesix.com \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Madelaine Petsch emphatically denied hooking up with her \u201cRiverdale\u201d co-stars after KJ Apa revealed he lost his virginity while on the scripted show. \u201cMay I set the record straight about\u00a0\u2018Riverdale,\u2019 actually?\u201d the actress, 31, said on the \u201cCall Her Daddy\u201d podcast Wednesday. \u201cRecently, an article came out saying that we all f\u2013ked each other on [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2029972,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[25177],"tags":[35566,344976,24003,21741,342324,23522,304866,21913],"class_list":["post-2029971","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-celebrities","tag-celebrity-dating","tag-celebrity-interviews","tag-celebrity-news","tag-entertainment","tag-kj-apa","tag-podcasts","tag-riverdale","tag-tv"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/Madelaine-Petsch-sets-record-straight-on-Riverdale-cast-hookups.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2029971","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2029971"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2029971\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2029972"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2029971"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2029971"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2029971"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}