{"id":367003,"date":"2026-01-13T02:42:14","date_gmt":"2026-01-13T02:42:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/367003\/"},"modified":"2026-01-13T02:42:14","modified_gmt":"2026-01-13T02:42:14","slug":"heated-rivalrys-hudson-williams-connor-storrie-at-2026-golden-globes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/367003\/","title":{"rendered":"Heated Rivalry\u2019s Hudson Williams, Connor Storrie at 2026 Golden Globes"},"content":{"rendered":"

\n\tThe Golden Globes<\/a> couldn\u2019t get enough of Heated Rivalry<\/a> stars Hudson Williams<\/a> and Connor Storrie<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\n\tWilliams arrived first of the pair to the 2026 Golden Globes<\/a> red carpet<\/a> in a chic Giorgio Armani ensemble, pairing a white silk shirt and a white dinner jacket and cummerbund with a Bulgari jewelry and Christian Louboutin boots.<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cIt\u2019s hot boys, god damn,\u201d he told the gathered photographers on the Globes red carpet, smirking back when one of the gathered press quipped that the temperature was just a little hotter than him. The 24-year-old did a handful of red carpet interviews, generating gems like, \u201cLove y\u2019all, uh, the sound is included in that,\u201d when asked what his message to the LGBTQIA+ community was, doing shots with Gayle King and his first go at the E! News glambot, which needed to be censored due to his double middle finger. It was endlessly endearing.<\/p>\n

\n\tStorrie, arriving about a half-hour after his co-star, opted for an entirely Saint Laurent outfit. He wore a chic, classic black tuxedo with a skinny black tie and was adorned in Tiffany & Co\u2019s Bird on a Rock brooch. <\/p>\n

\n\tThe 25-year-old told The Hollywood Reporter on the carpet about the difficulties of finding a skating rink in Los Angeles when he was practicing skating for Heated Rivalry. \u201cI would have to drive 45 minutes everyday to the Valley to try to learn how to ice skate,\u201d he said. \u201cI would do these open skates, and it would be me and these seven-year-old girls. They would just skate laps around me.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tInside the show, the pair were seen chatting up different guests. Williams and Storrie were seemingly in several places at once over the weekend at \u201cGolden Week\u201d parties, and as THR noted<\/a>, had A-list guests so excited to meet them and take photos that the gathered crowds broke the no-photo policy at some parties. The duo snapped photos with a range of people from Charli XCX and Omar Apollo to K-pop star Joshua Hong from Seventeen.<\/p>\n

\n\tDuring the broadcast, Williams and Storrie presented the award for best supporting actress in a television series. THR exclusively broke the news that the pair were presenting together<\/a> earlier this week. \u201cUFC fighters\u201d came onto the stage as \u201cextra security\u201d given how mobbed the pair have been lately in a genuinely odd plug before the actors finally took the stage to the tune of Chappell Roan\u2019s \u201cPink Pony Club.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tStorrie acted nervous while Williams calmed him down, telling him to picture everyone in the audience naked. Storrie countered that he doesn\u2019t think that works given everyone has seen them, \u201cyou know.\u201d To which they polled the audience on if they had seen the series \u2014 maybe, they decided \u2014 however, in the room there was a huge cheer when the pair posed the question.<\/p>\n

\n\tWilliams and Storrie assured everyone that the audience member\u2019s trainers, moms and daughters have definitely seen Heated Rivalry. \u201cHi, moms,\u201d Williams cheekily said. \u201cHi, daughters,\u201d Storrie followed up. Williams even helped winner Adolescence actress Erin Doherty, who won the best supporting actress in television award, up to the stage to accept her award.<\/p>\n

\n\tOne would think after the busy week the pair have had that they\u2019d be preparing for a break, but alas, Storrie is expected to make his late night debut tomorrow (Jan. 12) on Late Night with Seth Meyers. Last week, Williams made his late night debut on The Tonight Show and had a crowd gathered that was so large and franticly excited that it invoked memories of The Beatles, according to host Jimmy Fallon<\/a>, or in recent years BTS. Late Night has already issued warnings that there are no tickets for Storrie available, presumably hoping to minimize a disappointed line of fans camping out for a chance to see the actor.<\/p>\n

\n\tHeated Rivalry, hailing from Canadian streamer Crave and airing on HBO Max in the U.S., was created for television by\u00a0Letterkenny\u00a0alum Jacob Tierney<\/a> and centers around a fictional hockey universe based on books by Rachel Reid.\u00a0The show focuses on two rival professional players \u2014 Canada-born Shane Hollander (Williams)<\/a> of the fictitious Montreal Metros and Russia-born Ilya Rozanov (Storrie)<\/a> of the fictitious Boston Raiders \u2014 as they navigate a near-decade-long situationship<\/a> turned (spoiler alert) relationship over the entirety of their Major League Hockey careers.<\/p>\n

\n\tCrave renewed Heated Rivalry for a second season and HBO Max confirmed it will continue to air the series. Tierney, who wrote and directed the show\u2019s entire first season, has confirmed that he\u2019ll return to direct the series<\/a>, but told THR ahead of Heated Rivalry\u2019s finale that he was considering the possibility \u201cthat other writers will come in to help\u201d him out, but that he wasn\u2019t sure yet.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Golden Globes couldn\u2019t get enough of Heated Rivalry stars Hudson Williams and Connor Storrie. Williams arrived first…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":367004,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[20267,124346,96,59,68687,139742,124347,124345,56,54,55],"class_list":{"0":"post-367003","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-entertainment","8":"tag-awards","9":"tag-connor-storrie","10":"tag-entertainment","11":"tag-gb","12":"tag-golden-globes","13":"tag-golden-globes-2026","14":"tag-heated-rivalry","15":"tag-hudson-williams","16":"tag-uk","17":"tag-united-kingdom","18":"tag-unitedkingdom"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/367003","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=367003"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/367003\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/367004"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=367003"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=367003"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=367003"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}