{"id":464143,"date":"2026-02-07T09:37:11","date_gmt":"2026-02-07T09:37:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/464143\/"},"modified":"2026-02-07T09:37:11","modified_gmt":"2026-02-07T09:37:11","slug":"francois-arnaud-spotted-on-dinner-date-with-connor-storrie-also-hosts-pillion-screening-in-l-a-alexander-skarsgard-connor-storrie-francois-arnaud-harry-lighton-harry-melling","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/464143\/","title":{"rendered":"Francois Arnaud Spotted on Dinner Date with Connor Storrie; Also Hosts \u2018Pillion\u2019 Screening in L.A. | Alexander Skarsgard, Connor Storrie, Francois Arnaud, Harry Lighton, Harry Melling | Celebrity News and Gossip | Entertainment, Photos and Videos"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The rumors that <a href=\"https:\/\/www.justjared.com\/tags\/heated-rivalry\/\" title=\"Heated Rivalry\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Heated Rivalry<\/a> co-stars <a href=\"https:\/\/www.justjared.com\/tags\/francois-arnaud\/\" title=\"Francois Arnaud\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Francois Arnaud<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.justjared.com\/tags\/connor-storrie\/\" title=\"Connor Storrie\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Connor Storrie<\/a> are a real-life couple are going to heat up even more once fans see their new \u201cdate night\u201d photos.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.tmz.com\/2026\/02\/06\/heated-rivalry-francois-arnaud-connor-storrie-romantic-dinner\/?adid=social-tw\" onclick=\"getOutboundLink(&#039;https:\/\/www.tmz.com\/2026\/02\/06\/heated-rivalry-francois-arnaud-connor-storrie-romantic-dinner\/?adid=social-tw&#039;); return false;\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">TMZ has shared new photos<\/a> of Francois and Connor sitting side-by-side in a round booth while dining at the legendary Smoke House restaurant in Burbank, Calif. <\/p>\n<p>The outlet noted that while \u201cthere wasn\u2019t full-on PDA, the energy was very much date night.\u201d Rumors have been swirling for weeks that they\u2019re dating in real life and the possible couple has been seen <a href=\"https:\/\/www.justjared.com\/2026\/01\/15\/connor-storrie-francois-arnaud-catch-flight-out-of-nyc-together-after-promoting-heated-rivalry\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">flying together<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.justjared.com\/2026\/01\/26\/heated-rivalrys-connor-storrie-is-all-smiles-with-francois-arnaud-while-leaving-paris-fashion-week-party-together\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">spending time in Paris<\/a>, and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.justjared.com\/2026\/02\/02\/connor-storrie-francois-arnaud-step-out-for-grammys-2026-after-party-in-l-a\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">going to Grammys parties<\/a> in LA. <\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s unclear when the photos were taken, but we do have new photos of Francois from Thursday night (February 5) in Los Angeles.<\/p>\n<p>Francois hosted the Q&amp;A portion of a screening of the new movie Pillion at AMC Century City alongside lead actors <a href=\"https:\/\/www.justjared.com\/tags\/alexander-skarsgard\/\" title=\"Alexander Skarsgard\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Alexander Skarsgard<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.justjared.com\/tags\/harry-melling\/\" title=\"Harry Melling\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Harry Melling<\/a>, plus writer-director <a href=\"https:\/\/www.justjared.com\/tags\/harry-lighton\/\" title=\"Harry Lighton\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Harry Lighton<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMy name is Francois. I wore my finest leather for you tonight. Anybody else do that? Okay, just me,\u201d he told the crowd during the intro. \u201cI\u2019m an actor, but first and foremost I\u2019m a cinephile. It kind of all started for me when I worked as a video store clerk in my teenage years. 20 years later, I still get just as excited, like a nerdy film kid when a new, clear, unique, confident voice emerges in cinema and that is exactly how I felt when I saw Pillion a few weeks ago.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Francois looked <a href=\"https:\/\/www.justjared.com\/2026\/02\/04\/francois-arnaud-james-marsden-manny-jacinto-more-look-suave-for-a-james-bond-themed-party\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">suave for another public appearance <\/a>this week!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The rumors that Heated Rivalry co-stars Francois Arnaud and Connor Storrie are a real-life couple are going to&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":464144,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[64,63,447,134],"class_list":["post-464143","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-celebrities","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-celebrities","tag-entertainment"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/464143","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=464143"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/464143\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/464144"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=464143"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=464143"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=464143"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}