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Ridiculously Cute Couple Madelaine Petsch and Travis Mills Deserves Your Attention

Oct 13 2019 - 12:00pm

Some stars like to keep their relationships very private, but not Madelaine Petsch and Travis Mills [1]! The Riverdale [2] star and her musician/actor beau have been dating for nearly three years now, and they've always been surprisingly open about sharing details [3] about their lives together. According to Madelaine, there's a good reason for that: the couple love leaning into their "couple goals" role as positive role models.

"I think my generation is extremely cynical about love [4]," Madelaine told Glamour in 2018. "I'm a huge advocate of showing my relationship online because love does exist, and I think it's so important for our generation to know that love will win. No matter who you love, what you love, it will win. I feel like I see so much online of people being cynical about never being able to find love and it's become, like, cool. You don't need it by any means. You can live without it, and you can totally be self-independent and happy . . . Before I met Travis, I felt that way for a year. I was fully single and didn't talk to anybody," she explained. "And then I met him and was like, 'Oh my God, this is what they say.' It sounds patronizing when they say, 'When you know, you know,' but [now] I know."

Madelaine and Travis's relationship has been very public but, also, very refreshingly drama-free. Ahead, check out some of their relationship milestones so far, starting from their very sweet meet-cute and moving onward to their current status as long-distance relationship goals.

May 2017: Madelaine and Travis Make Their First Public Appearance

The couple stepped out in public for the first time at a "young Hollywood" event, four months after they first met. Madelaine told Cosmopolitan about how they first crossed paths [5] — as it turns out, they can thank Facebook for their connection.

"He messaged me on Facebook in January of season one and congratulated me on the show. He had auditioned for Jughead. I think we just randomly had mutual friends, so we added each other. We kept in touch very rarely, not even that much, from January to February, and then the day I got back from season one in February I was bored in L.A., believe it or not," she described. "I was like, "What am I gonna do?" I got my hair cut and he texted me like, "Let's go to a movie!" We hung out and spent every single day together that I've been in L.A. since then, since February.

August 2017: Travis Supports Madelaine at the Teen Choice Awards

Madelaine was up for her first Teen Choice Award in 2017, and Travis was right there at her side. He must have been a good-luck charm, too — she took home the award for choice "hissy fit"!

Oct. 2017: Travis Makes a Guest Appearance on Madelaine's YouTube

Several months into their relationship, Travis appeared on Madelaine's YouTube channel for a goofy video entitled "How well does my boyfriend know Riverdale [6]?" He didn't do so well on her trivia quiz, but he had a pretty dang great excuse: "The only reason why I didn't get through season 1, I would just miss you, because you were gone."

March 2018: Madelaine and Travis Attend an Oscars Party Together

The couple made a much more formal appearance at Elton John's annual Oscars viewing party about a year into their relationship.

August 2018: Madelaine and Travis Attend the Teen Choice Awards

For the second year straight, Madelaine was nominated at the Teen Choice Awards alongside her Riverdale [7] castmates. Travis was there to cheer her on as she won not one, but two awards that night!

September 2018: Travis Is Madelaine's Date to the Emmys

Although Riverdale [8] wasn't nominated for any Emmys, Madelaine and Travis were among the celebs who were guests at the ceremony in 2018.

December 2018: Madelaine and Travis Hang With the Riverdale Cast

Travis might not have landed the role of Jughead, but he's become a fixture of the Riverdale [9] crew at major events, pictured here with Madelaine and her costars Charles Melton, Camila Mendes, and Marisol Nichols.

April 2019: Madelaine Wishes Travis a Happy 30th Birthday

Travis turned the big 3-0 on April 12, and Madelaine had the perfect birthday message for him on her Instagram. "To being thirty, flirty and thriving all year," she wrote.

July 2019: Madelaine and Travis Celebrate the Fourth of July Together

The couple have to do the long-distance thing while Madelaine is filming Riverdale [10] in Vancouver during the regular season, so their Summers together while she's on filming hiatus are even more important.


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