Heated rivalryRobbie GK and Changes to the game the author of the book series Rachel Reid didn't miss it Andy Cohen And Anderson CooperA live TV riff on the popular Canadian drama series during CNN's New Year's Eve special live on Wednesday night.
In their classic, hilarious conversation in the annual New Year's special, Cohen and Cooper discussed who would play Ilya and who would play Shane in the LGBTQ+ sports romance series.
As they teased each other and drank, Cooper mentioned going to bed with Cohen, telling Cohen that “there's something about sleeping in your own bed… I just don't know,” suggesting that he didn't feel entirely good about it.
“Bed frame“,” Cohen intervened. “I didn't give you a mattress.”
Cooper insisted: “Well, I know. But I don't know. I just…”
“I thought it brought us closer,” Cohen teased Cooper. “Like best brothers or something,” to which Cooper responded with a laugh, “It's not Heated rivalry” And then the banter began: the two argued over who would play Ilya and who would play Shane, the series' main characters, with Cohen telling Cooper, “You're Ilya, and I'm Shane.” Cooper quickly responded by saying, “What?!” I'm not any of them. I'm Kip.
Reed, author Changes to the game a series of books in which Heated rivalry based, posted on her Instagram Stories about the correspondence between Cohen and Cooper with the caption: “I keep thinking that nothing can surprise me at this point, but…
Robbie GK, who plays Kip on the show, also posted the exchange.
Heated rivalry follows rival hockey players Shane and Ilya, played by Hudson Williams and Connor Storrie. The two are bound by rivalry and ambition, but begin a secret romance that develops into a long-term relationship.
Canadian streamer Crave recently greenlit a second season of the action-packed hockey drama starring HBO Max again obtains rights in the US and Australia and Sky in the UK and Ireland. The drama is now Crave's largest original series ever, with viewership up nearly 400% in its first seven-day broadcast following its debut on Friday, November 28, according to internal data from mParticle and Amazon Channels.
