{"id":514579,"date":"2026-03-10T07:33:07","date_gmt":"2026-03-10T07:33:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/514579\/"},"modified":"2026-03-10T07:33:07","modified_gmt":"2026-03-10T07:33:07","slug":"hudson-williams-and-francois-arnaud-slam-online-hate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/514579\/","title":{"rendered":"Hudson Williams and Fran\u00e7ois Arnaud Slam Online Hate"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n\t\u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/variety.com\/t\/heated-rivalry\/\" id=\"auto-tag_heated-rivalry\" data-tag=\"heated-rivalry\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Heated Rivalry<\/a>\u201d stars <a href=\"https:\/\/variety.com\/t\/hudson-williams\/\" id=\"auto-tag_hudson-williams\" data-tag=\"hudson-williams\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Hudson Williams<\/a> and Fran\u00e7ois Arnaud posted matching statements to their Instagram stories on Monday, telling off viewers who post hate comments on their castmates\u2019 socials. <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n\t\u201cDon\u2019t call yourself a fan if you share racist\/homophobic\/biphobic\/misogynist\/ageist\/ableist\/parasocial\/bigoted comments of any kind,\u201d read the posts. \u201cNone of us need your hateful \u2018love.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n\tThe statement continued, \u201cWe all respect and support and love each other and are on the same side. If you can\u2019t accept that gtfoh.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n\tIn \u201cHeated Rivarly,\u201d Williams plays up-and-coming hockey star Shane Hollander, and Arnaud plays veteran pro Scott Hunter. The <a href=\"https:\/\/variety.com\/t\/hbo\/\" id=\"auto-tag_hbo\" data-tag=\"hbo\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">HBO<\/a> drama follows the secret romance between Wiliams\u2019 character and Connor Storrie\u2019s Ilya Rozanov. All three leads have been recent subjects of online hate, with some viewers sharing comments with the intention of stirring drama between them.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n\tWilliams and Arnaud are not the only \u201cHeated Rivalry\u201d stars to speak out against the hate. Ksenia Daniela Kharlamova, who plays Ilya\u2019s close friend Svetlana, posted a <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/K_DanielaK\/status\/2030776078109688006\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">statement on X<\/a> in an effort to cut through the online noise about her importance to the show.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n\t\u201cSince it\u2019s Women\u2019s Day I want to say the women you see at industry events are there bcuz they are just as deserving of being in those rooms! The assumption that we are there because our male costars invited us takes away the work we also put in. Celebrate women\u2019s achievements!\u201d In a follow-up post, she added, \u201cAlso if you\u2019re using this tweet to criticize my castmates you missed the point! They are amazing!! I said CELEBRATE WOMEN not hate on male actors.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\u201cHeated Rivalry\u201d stars Hudson Williams and Fran\u00e7ois Arnaud posted matching statements to their Instagram stories on Monday, telling&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":514580,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[88,172849,1035,162094,162095],"class_list":["post-514579","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-entertainment","tag-entertainment","tag-francois-arnaud","tag-hbo","tag-heated-rivalry","tag-hudson-williams"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/514579","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=514579"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/514579\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/514580"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=514579"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=514579"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=514579"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}