{"id":667726,"date":"2026-09-01T23:30:20","date_gmt":"2026-09-01T23:30:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/667726\/"},"modified":"2026-09-01T23:30:20","modified_gmt":"2026-09-01T23:30:20","slug":"heated-rivalry-season-2-sets-returning-cast-members","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/667726\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;Heated Rivalry&#8217; Season 2 Sets Returning Cast Members"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n\tFran\u00e7ois Arnaud and Robbie G.K. will reprise their roles as Scott and Kip for the second season of \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 joining Connor Storrie and Hudson Williams for the hockey drama.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n\tReturning alongside Arnaud and G.K. for the sophomore season are Sophie N\u00e9lisse as Rose, Ksenia Daniela Kharlamova as Svetlana, Callan Potter as Hayden and Benjamin Roy as JJ. Kamilla Kowal will reprise her role as Hayden\u2019s wife, Jackie, alongside Christina Chang and Dylan Walsh as Shane\u2019s parents.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n\tPreviously announced cast members for Season 2 include Justice Smith as Harris, Charlie Gillespie as Troy, Daniel Diemer as Ryan, Shaheen Jafargholi as Fabian, Emily Hampshire as Vanessa, Edvin Ryding as Luca, Robert Naylor as Wyatt, Sabrina Jalees as Farah and Priyanka as Tarek.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n\tSeason 2 adapts the second book in Rachel Reid\u2019s \u201cGame Changers\u201d series \u201cThe Long Game,\u201d which sees Shane and Ilya 10 years after their relationship began. The second season will also feature elements from Reid\u2019s fifth book, \u201cRole Model.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n\tSmith and Gillespie will lead the sophomore season alongside Storrie and Williams, who had their breakout roles in Season 1 as Ilya Rozanov and Shane Hollander, respectively. The first season followed hockey players Ilya and Shane, who began a secret fling that ultimately turned into a \u201cyears-long journey of love, denial and self-discovery,\u201d per the season\u2019s logline. <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n\t\u201cHeated Rivalry\u201d is created by Jacob Tierney, who also serves as writer, director and executive producer. The series is produced by Accent Aigu Entertainment in association with Bell Media\u2019s Crave, with Brendan Brady and Jayme Alter Wilson executive producing. Lori Fischburg and Liane Cunje are producers alongside Reid, who serves as consulting producer. Mike Goldbach co-wrote Season 2.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Fran\u00e7ois Arnaud and Robbie G.K. will reprise their roles as Scott and Kip for the second season of&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":667727,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[265],"tags":[18,117,173553,106286,19,17,56599,128],"class_list":["post-667726","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tv","tag-eire","tag-entertainment","tag-francois-arnaud","tag-heated-rivalry","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-sophie-nelisse","tag-tv"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/667726","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=667726"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/667726\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/667727"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=667726"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=667726"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=667726"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}