American Idol champ Maddie Poppe feared producers would break up her relationship with Caleb Lee Hutchinson

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“We started dating around the top 24 week, and we’d noticed that there were some other couples who had gotten split up along the way,” she says. That's when she began to suspect that producers frowned upon show romances. “I mean, it’s just my conspiracy theory, but we really didn’t want anybody to know (we were an item), because we didn’t want the producers to find out and split us up!”