{"id":752163,"date":"2026-07-09T08:03:14","date_gmt":"2026-07-09T08:03:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/752163\/"},"modified":"2026-07-09T08:03:14","modified_gmt":"2026-07-09T08:03:14","slug":"heated-rivalry-breakout-connor-storrie-earns-first-emmy-nomination","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/752163\/","title":{"rendered":"Heated Rivalry Breakout Connor Storrie Earns First Emmy Nomination"},"content":{"rendered":"

\n\tHeated Rivalry<\/a> breakout Connor Storrie<\/a> has earned his first Emmy nomination<\/a> \u2014 but it\u2019s not for the show<\/a> you\u2019re thinking of. The 26-year-old actor nabbed a nom in the best guest actor in a comedy category Wednesday morning for his Saturday Night Live hosting gig.<\/p>\n

\n\tWhile Heated Rivalry was ineligible due to the fact it\u2019s an entirely Canadian financed production, Storrie was eligible through the long-running sketch comedy show, which he appeared on earlier this year. The actor hosted the Feb. 28 episode<\/a> of SNL, which featured Mumford & Sons as the musical guest. He brought out his pal and onscreen Heated Rivalry beau Hudson Williams<\/a> for a sketch in the episode.<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cSNL was such a \u2018pinch me\u2019 moment in my career,\u201d Storrie told The Hollywood Reporter about the nomination in an email statement. \u201cIt was a formative part of my life growing up, so to be recognized by the Academy for hosting feels incredibly surreal. I\u2019m so grateful to everyone who made that night possible.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tThe guest actor in a comedy prize is typically given out at the Creative Arts Emmys, ahead of the televised main ceremony. The Creative Arts ceremony is currently slated to take place over two days, Sept. 5 and Sept. 6. The Emmys will take place the following weekend on Sept. 12. <\/p>\n

\n\tThe Texas-born actor<\/a> found himself in a unique situation this awards<\/a> season. Heated Rivalry, which hails from Canadian streamer Crave and airs on HBO Max in the U.S., was eligible for awards domestically, and it won plenty of them.<\/p>\n

\n\tHeated Rivalry took home 16 awards at the 2026 Canadian Screen Awards, including best drama series, best lead performer for<\/a> Williams<\/a>, best direction and writing for a drama series for Jacob Tierney<\/a>, best supporting performer for Sophie N\u00e9lisse<\/a> and more. Storrie was not eligible for the Canadian Screen Awards, as he\u2019s American.<\/p>\n

\n\tStorrie has been busy since Heated Rivalry finished airing late last year and already has a slew of projects he\u2019s worked on this year. He\u2019s expected to be seen next in the A24 comedy Peaked, from Molly Gordon and SNL writer Allie Levitan. He was most recently in a multi-episode arc on Criminal Minds Evolution, which was booked and shot before Heated Rivalry premiered.<\/p>\n

\n\tThe queer hockey drama has made certified stars out of both Storrie and Williams. The pair presented at the 2026 Golden Globes, served as torchbearers in the 2026 Olympic Torch Relay and made their MET Gala debut in the just over seven months since the show premiered. Since the show\u2019s premiere, Storrie has landed several coveted luxury brand ambassadorship gigs, including both Saint Laurent and Tiffany & Co. The actor and Yardley graced the cover of THR<\/a>\u2018s Power Stylist issue<\/a> earlier this year for their work together.<\/p>\n

\n\tHeated Rivalry, which airs on HBO Max in the U.S., is based on the popular romance books by Reid. The show\u2019s first season is based on the second novel, Heated Rivalry. Tierney created, wrote and directed the series.<\/p>\n

\n\tThe series is set in a fictional professional hockey universe and\u00a0focuses on two rival professional players \u2014\u00a0Canada-born Shane Hollander (Williams)<\/a>\u00a0of the fictitious Montreal Metros and\u00a0Russia-born Ilya Rozanov (Storrie)\u00a0of the fictitious Boston Raiders \u2014 as they navigate a\u00a0near-decade-long situationship<\/a>-turned-relationship.<\/p>\n

\n\tCrave\u00a0renewed\u00a0Heated Rivalry\u00a0for a second season<\/a>\u00a0early into the show\u2019s first season run. HBO Max has confirmed it will continue to air the series. Storrie is slated to return to the show this summer to shoot the second season, which is\u00a0aiming for a spring 2027 release<\/a>. The upcoming season will be based on the next installment of Shane and Ilya\u2019s story in Reid\u2019s novels,\u00a0The Long Game, along with the fifth book in the series,\u00a0Role Model.<\/p>\n

\n\tJuly 8, 12:37 p.m. Updated with Connor Storrie\u2019s statement.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Heated Rivalry breakout Connor Storrie has earned his first Emmy nomination \u2014 but it\u2019s not for the show…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":752164,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[57],"tags":[10546,236,162091,11643,10548,322353,251125,88,162094,162095,162096,16821],"class_list":["post-752163","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-celebrities","tag-awards","tag-celebrities","tag-connor-storrie","tag-emmy-awards","tag-emmy-nominations","tag-emmy-nominations-2026","tag-emmys-2026","tag-entertainment","tag-heated-rivalry","tag-hudson-williams","tag-jacob-tierney","tag-thr-original-video"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/752163","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=752163"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/752163\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/752164"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=752163"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=752163"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=752163"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}