Nothing outrageous going on here.
During theDec 7 episode of Riverdale, rebranded as Rivervale for the five-episode unique occasion, Madelaine Petsch and Lili Reinhart shared an unique kiss while playing 1950 s locals of the Archieverse town. While Petsch was representing Poppy Blossom, a forefather of her character, Cheryl Blossom, she clarified to E! News that Reinhart’s brand-new character in the flashback scene, called Bitsy, wasn’t associated with Betty Cooper at all.
“I definitely want to set the record straight,” she solely shared. “In this lineage, we are not cousins…Fans seemed very concerned that it’s two cousins kissing. It is not that. She plays a different character completely, she plays a Smith.”
For those who require a Riverdale refresher, Betty and Cheryl are certainly associated, as their particular great-grandfathers were bros. So where does Poppy Blossom fall in the ancestral tree? According to Petsch, “That was way before that ever happened.”
We can’t blame the fans for presuming it was a kissing cousins circumstance, because Riverdale has actually currently danced around the incest line in previous episodes. We’re, naturally, describing Polly Cooper and Jason Blossom, who were unwittingly 3rd cousins when they got together.
