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Season 2 of Heated Rivalry can't come soon enough!
The hit gay hockey romance series is officially in production up in Canada at this very moment, but fans are still craving new content to hold them down until they get to see Ilya Rozanov and Shane Hollander hit the ice once again.
Since November 2025, Connor Storrie and Hudson Williams have skyrocketed to mainstream success and traveled the world starring in major fashion campaigns, walking on the hottest red carpets, and posing in a slew of steamy photo shoots.
Earlier this year, Williams served as the face of Peloton's recent and very sweaty campaign that quickly went viral on social media. Despite the fact that Peloton took down the content after a few months, new photos are emerging online showing Williams manspreading behind the scenes.
"Letting yourself go is a great thing that fitness can do to your life," Williams says in the original video that's just over a minute long. "Movement is the quickest was sort of get out of sticky feelings."
The new photos come at the perfect time as Williams and Storrie just recently reunited on the set of Heated Rivalry season 2. Plus, casting news just dropped that Justice Smith and Charlie Gillespie will join the hit show.
Heated Rivalry season 2 will follow the plot of Rachel Reid's The Long Game — the sixth and final book in the Game Changers — that serves as a direct sequel to Shane and Ilya's love story. Readers of The Long Game reunite with Ilya and Shane a little over 10 years after the start of Reid's Heated Rivalry novel. Fortunately, these two hockey players are still together. However, they're still closeted, and have now been keeping this relationship a secret for an estimated 11 years, which has obviously taken a toll on them.
Heated Rivalry season 2 premieres April 2027, but check out the new photos of Hudson Williams below!
