{"id":234875,"date":"2026-01-08T21:07:08","date_gmt":"2026-01-08T21:07:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/234875\/"},"modified":"2026-01-08T21:07:08","modified_gmt":"2026-01-08T21:07:08","slug":"heated-rivalry-star-connor-storrie-to-visit-today-in-first-morning-tv-appearance","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/234875\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;Heated Rivalry&#8217; Star Connor Storrie To Visit TODAY in First Morning TV Appearance"},"content":{"rendered":"<p id=\"anchor-bf491b\" class=\"body-graf\">Connor Storrie is coming to Studio 1A.<\/p>\n<p id=\"anchor-35c646\" class=\"body-graf\">The \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.today.com\/popculture\/tv\/nhl-reacts-heated-rivalry-rcna250547\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Heated Rivalry\u201d<\/a> star will make his morning show debut Jan. 14 on TODAY, stopping by 30 Rock to discuss the hit hockey romance drama series that has taken the world by storm since its U.S. premiere Nov. 28 on HBO Max.<\/p>\n<p id=\"anchor-e034f2\" class=\"body-graf\">His live interview, happening on the 3rd Hour of TODAY, will come two days after he makes his late night debut Jan. 12 on \u201cLate Night with Seth Meyers.\u201d He also announced the nominations for SAG-AFTRA\u2019s Actor Awards Jan. 7 alongside \u201cAbbott Elementary\u201d star Janelle James.<\/p>\n<p id=\"anchor-0653c2\" class=\"body-graf\">Storrie stars in \u201cHeated Rivalry\u201d as Russian hockey phenom Ilya Rozanov, who plays for Boston\u2019s team in a fictionalized professional hockey league. Well before his rookie season, he meets young Canadian star player Shane Hollander, played by fellow breakout actor Hudson Williams, and they strike up a years-long romantic dalliance, which is chronicled over the show\u2019s six episodes. <\/p>\n<p id=\"anchor-73175c\" class=\"body-graf\">Like Storrie, Williams just made his late night debut, appearing on \u201cThe Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon\u201d Jan. 7, sparking fan fervor and crowds in and around 30 Rock for his appearance.<\/p>\n<p id=\"anchor-12c316\" class=\"body-graf\">While \u201cHeated Rivalry\u201d Season 1 wrapped with its Dec. 26 finale, the show is already renewed for Season 2. Canadian streamer <a href=\"https:\/\/www.today.com\/popculture\/tv\/heated-rivalry-renewed-season-2-rcna248875\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Crave announced the show\u2019s renewal Dec. 12<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p id=\"anchor-f76f4e\" class=\"endmark body-graf\">\u201cHeated Rivalry\u201d is based on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.today.com\/popculture\/tv\/rachel-reid-heated-rivalry-show-interview-rcna247427\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Rachel Reid\u2019s<\/a> hockey romance novel of the same name, which first published in 2019. Shane and Ilya\u2019s love story continued in her 2022 novel, \u201cThe Long Game.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Connor Storrie is coming to Studio 1A. The \u201cHeated Rivalry\u201d star will make his morning show debut Jan.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":234876,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[93,61,60,282],"class_list":{"0":"post-234875","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-tv","8":"tag-entertainment","9":"tag-ie","10":"tag-ireland","11":"tag-tv"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/234875","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=234875"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/234875\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/234876"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=234875"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=234875"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=234875"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}