**Heated Rivalry Star Hudson Williams Breaks Silence on Girlfriend Rumors & Show Backlash 🔥📺**

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**Hudson Williams responds to alleged secret girlfriend claims and criticism of Canadian TV drama *Heated Rivalry*. Here’s what the rising star had to say. 👀🎭**

Hudson Williams’ patience for internet gossip is on thin ice.

The Heated Rivalry actor spoke out after the Crave and HBO Max series faced criticism on gossip blogger Deuxmoi’s Deux U podcast, which argued that viewers were only tuning in for the show’s steamy depiction of gay romance between two hockey players.

“I didn’t find the acting that strong,” one host—whose identity is anonymous—said during the Dec. 19 episode of the podcast, to which their cohost replied, “People aren’t watching it for the acting.”

The pair also shared alleged details about Hudson’s personal life submitted by listeners, including the claim that the 24-year-old—who portrays hockey star Shane Hollander in the Canadian TV drama—is dating a tattoo artist who gave him and costar Connor Storrie matching “Sex Sells” body art.

“If you received the Deuxmoi newsletter,” the cohost said later in the episode, “it was revealed—now this is per the fans, this isn’t any information I received—that Hudson Williams does have a girlfriend.”

When a clip from the podcast was shared on Instagram, social media users widely condemned the speculation—including Hudson himself, who left his own comment on the since-deleted post.

“You know what,” he wrote on the post, per Variety, “I’ve grown quite unfond of you deuxmoi.”

As fans and critics alike have praised the onscreen chemistry between Hudson and Connor—who plays Shane’s Russian rival Ilya Rozanov—some have raised questions about their sexuality in real life, though neither actor has directly shared their orientation. Instead, Hudson has accepted the chatter as being part of “the nature of celebrity.”

“I think there’s never a question for me,” he told Deadline in an interview published Dec. 11, “when I would dream of becoming in the public eye, that I would want just a level of privacy.”

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And while Hudson acknowledged the importance of “queer people telling queer stories,” he also emphasized that his pairing with Connor, 25, was a singular connection.

“There’s the element of Connor and I,” he continued. “We’re best friends, and we love expressing that physically.”

Similarly, Connor has avoided discussing his love life in order to keep audiences focused on Shane and Ilya’s magnetic pairing.

“I feel honored to be able to bring someone to life that so many people feel seen, understood, and represented by,” he said in an interview with Vulture published Dec. 22, “and I think that transcends whoever I’m sleeping with in my real life.”

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