That sounds really frustrating. Especially as an RPF fan who has been burned by the difference between person and persona—despite doing my utmost to keep them mentally separated—I would never be able to buy such a relationship as presented. I'd assume at least one character was (sub)consciously refusing to reflect on how all of their "shippy" behavior kept somehow ending up on camera, and that things were inevitably going to come to a head at some point in the future.