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Heated Rivalry Returns in Milano Cortina -- Andrew Fleming
https://www.wonkette.com/p/heated-rivalry-returns-in-milanoFaster, Higher, Gayer!
This year's Winter Games in Italy is seeing a lot of firsts. It's the first Olympics to have a woman in charge, the first with cauldrons lit in two different cities, the first time ski mountaineering or mixed team skeleton are in the running, and the first the United States is experiencing as a global pariah. Hopefully Donald Trump won't decide the whole thing is rigged and threatens to seize Sardinia or something unless all the gold medals are awarded to hi[m].
The Greatest Show on Earth has never risked being overshadowed by a low-budget Canadian television series before either.
You've probably watched or have at least heard of "Heated Rivalry," the new Crave show based on author Rachel Reid's Game Changers books that ship the idea of a secret romance between NHL leading scorers Sidney Crosby and Alex Ovechkin. I got advance buzz because my buddy Frank teaches an acting class in Vancouver but was skeptical of his guarantee a recent student -- Hudson Williams, who plays Shane Hollander -- was about to become a Very Big Deal. It's hard to imagine a new show about fictional hockey players could possibly be more popular than "Letterkenny" or "Shoresy" and yet star Jared Keeso somehow isn't a household name even in Canada.
It turns out director Jacob Tierney had a heavy hand in both, and three months later this dude is on the hottest show on televison, carrying the Olympic torch through the streets of Italy with American co-star Connor Storrie (Ilya Rozanov), and even dry-humping the prime minister on the red carpet. And "do the leg thing" was at Big Daddy Carney's suggestion.
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The Greatest Show on Earth has never risked being overshadowed by a low-budget Canadian television series before either.
You've probably watched or have at least heard of "Heated Rivalry," the new Crave show based on author Rachel Reid's Game Changers books that ship the idea of a secret romance between NHL leading scorers Sidney Crosby and Alex Ovechkin. I got advance buzz because my buddy Frank teaches an acting class in Vancouver but was skeptical of his guarantee a recent student -- Hudson Williams, who plays Shane Hollander -- was about to become a Very Big Deal. It's hard to imagine a new show about fictional hockey players could possibly be more popular than "Letterkenny" or "Shoresy" and yet star Jared Keeso somehow isn't a household name even in Canada.
It turns out director Jacob Tierney had a heavy hand in both, and three months later this dude is on the hottest show on televison, carrying the Olympic torch through the streets of Italy with American co-star Connor Storrie (Ilya Rozanov), and even dry-humping the prime minister on the red carpet. And "do the leg thing" was at Big Daddy Carney's suggestion.
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