{"id":286250,"date":"2026-02-16T04:54:09","date_gmt":"2026-02-16T04:54:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/286250\/"},"modified":"2026-02-16T04:54:09","modified_gmt":"2026-02-16T04:54:09","slug":"hudson-williams-reveals-long-term-girlfriend-in-valentines-day-post","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/286250\/","title":{"rendered":"Hudson Williams reveals long-term girlfriend in Valentine&#8217;s Day post"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Hudson Williams has revealed his long-term girlfriend in a Valentine&#8217;s Day post.<br \/>The Heated Rivalry star shared a rare glimpse into his private life after rising to fame on the ice hockey drama, posting a Valentine&#8217;s Day collage on his Instagram Stories, dedicated to his partner.<br \/>He did not reveal her name or when they began dating, but hinted their relationship goes back years. Williams wrote that she has been &#8220;with me since my 2000 gold Mazda Protege smoked and squealed and I had no job&#8221;.<br \/>Based on Rachel Reid&#8217;s Game Changers novels, Heated Rivalry follows the secret relationship between two rival players. <br \/>Williams stars opposite Connor Storrie, who plays Boston Raiders captain Ilya Rozanov. Their intense chemistry quickly led to online interest in their real-life relationship.<br \/>The actors have mostly stayed quiet about their personal lives, despite rumours swirling since the show turned them into sex symbols.<br \/>Speaking in an interview with Deadline, the duo addressed discussion around their off-screen sexualities, with Williams saying the speculation is &#8220;just the nature of celebrity&#8221;.<br \/>The pair previously addressed their highly praised connection in Heated Rivalry on talk show The Society, when Storrie explained that their relationship has blossomed off-screen, so much so that they now have matching tattoos.<br \/>&#8220;Hudson and I are best friends. We became really close really quickly, and it&#8217;s much easier to have sex on camera and fall in love with someone if you&#8217;re friends,&#8221; Storrie said.<br \/>&#8220;Who I date, who I sleep with, all of that I&#8217;m going to keep to myself.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Hudson Williams has revealed his long-term girlfriend in a Valentine&#8217;s Day post.The Heated Rivalry star shared a rare&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":286251,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[430,114962,156,110172,114961,111,139,69,159321,159320],"class_list":{"0":"post-286250","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-celebrities","8":"tag-celebrities","9":"tag-connor-storrie","10":"tag-entertainment","11":"tag-heated-rivalry","12":"tag-hudson-williams","13":"tag-new-zealand","14":"tag-newzealand","15":"tag-nz","16":"tag-secret-relationship","17":"tag-valentine39s-day"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/286250","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=286250"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/286250\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/286251"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=286250"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=286250"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=286250"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}