...with Caleb Lee Hutchinson

https://www.yahoo.com/entertainment/american-idol-winner-maddie-poppe-opens-caleb-lee-hutchinson-romance-katy-perry-advice-174601532.html

“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!”

Why would producers break their relationship up? Don't the judges decide who stays and who goes? What's the deal with all the anxiety of the producers trying to break them out. Contestants shouldn't feel this way.