{"id":640751,"date":"2026-10-09T01:58:11","date_gmt":"2026-10-09T01:58:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/640751\/"},"modified":"2026-10-09T01:58:11","modified_gmt":"2026-10-09T01:58:11","slug":"emily-hampshire-explains-heated-rivalry-special-thanks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/640751\/","title":{"rendered":"Emily Hampshire Explains &#8216;Heated Rivalry&#8217; Special Thanks"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tAs <a href=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/tag\/emily-hampshire\/\" id=\"auto-tag_emily-hampshire\" data-tag=\"emily-hampshire\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Emily Hampshire<\/a> joins the Season 2 ensemble of <a href=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/tag\/heated-rivalry\/\" id=\"auto-tag_heated-rivalry\" data-tag=\"heated-rivalry\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Heated Rivalry<\/a>, she already has a history with the Crave\/HBO Max series.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tNoting her longtime friendship with series creator <a href=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/tag\/jacob-tierney\/\" id=\"auto-tag_jacob-tierney\" data-tag=\"jacob-tierney\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Jacob Tierney<\/a>, the actress explained that she received \u201cspecial thanks\u201d in the credits of the Season 1 finale after lending her voice to an awards show scene in the episode \u201cOlympians\u201d, calling Ilya Rozanov (Connor Storrie) and Shane Hollander (Hudson Williams) to the stage. <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\t\u201cI couldn\u2019t believe the fandom of this show were able to pick that out, that I was that voice, when I didn\u2019t say anything,\u201d she told <a href=\"https:\/\/ew.com\/heated-rivalry-emily-hampshire-special-thanks-season-1-explained-12164116?taid=6ac7976d329a7f0001776d40&amp;utm_campaign=trueAnthem%3A+New+Content+%28Feed%29&amp;utm_medium=trueAnthem&amp;utm_source=twitter\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">Entertainment Weekly<\/a>. \u201cIt\u2019s tiny. I announced something at some award show.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tHampshire added, \u201cJacob Tierney, who created the show, is my oldest and best friend. I did his first short, all his movies. He got ordained online and performed my wedding ceremony. I walked down the aisle to \u2018I\u2019ll Believe in Anything\u2019, which is the song that he has made famous in this show. So we go back a long way, and I always read everything he does. So I read Heated Rivalry before anyone else did.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tIn August, Hampshire was <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/2026\/08\/heated-rivalry-season-2-cast-emily-hampshire-wyatt-hayes-1237032842\/\">cast in Season 2<\/a> of Heated Rivalry, playing sex toy reviewer Vanessa, a friend of Fabian Salah (Shaheen Jafargholi) in Rachel Reid\u2019s third Game Changer book Tough Guy.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\t<a href=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/2026\/08\/heated-rivalry-crowds-locations-1237017170\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">Production began<\/a> on the sophomore season of Tierney\u2019s Crave Original series adaptation in Canada in August.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tIn addition to Hampshire and Jafargholi, Deadline recently reported that Justice Smith, Charlie Gillespie, Daniel Diemer, Edvin Ryding, Robert Naylor, Sabrina Jalees, Priyanka, Brendan Morgan, David Tomlinson, Gerry Dee, Michelle Mylett, Lauren Chan and Nick Stahl <a href=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/2026\/09\/heated-rivalry-season-2-adds-cast-dallas-kent-name-change-1237105496\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">have been cast<\/a> in Season 2, which is set to premiere in spring 2027.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"As Emily Hampshire joins the Season 2 ensemble of Heated Rivalry, she already has a history with the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":640752,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[288793,146,92651,85,46,97200,411],"class_list":["post-640751","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tv","tag-emily-hampshire","tag-entertainment","tag-heated-rivalry","tag-il","tag-israel","tag-jacob-tierney","tag-tv"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/640751","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=640751"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/640751\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/640752"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=640751"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=640751"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=640751"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}