Queer ice skating star Amber Glenn calls for a lesbian Heated Rivalry

Amber Glenn might be booked and busy as a history-making figure skater, but she can definitely make time to appear on Heated Rivalry season two.

Or, better yet, to star in a spin-off series focussed on queer, female ice hockey players. 

The 26-year-old pansexual American figure skater appeared at the GLAAD Awards on 5 March, fresh off the back of her stint at the 2026 Winter Olympics, where she gushed over how much she loved Connor Storrie and Hudson Williams’ hit queer series.

“I watched it at the Olympics,” she enthused to Access Hollywood, before yelling about how much she wants to see a spin-off centring queer women.

“I want Yuri Heated Rivalry! Ask me, hire me,” she said to the camera, reaching out to the show’s creator Jacob Tierney. “I can fall in love with my co-star please!” she pleaded.

Yuri is a genre of media, made famous in Japan, which centres on the relationships between female characters.

Asked whether she’d be down to make a guest appearance in season two, Glenn swiftly responded: “Uh, yeah!”

It’s a demand that’s not too far out of the realm of possibility. In season one of Heated Rivalry, real-life ice hockey player Harrison Browne made a surprise guest appearance, much to the delight of fans.

Browne was honoured as the first out trans athlete in pro American hockey, so Amber Glenn – who is the first out queer woman to represent the US in Olympic singles figure skating – would be a perfect fit.

Glenn came out as pansexual back in 2019, explaining to NBC News that doing so helped her to be “set free”.

“I was able to feel like I wasn’t being pressured into trying to fill someone else’s shoes,” she said, explaining how being open about her sexuality helped her on the rink.

Season two of Heated Rivalry is set to begin filming this August, with Tierney recently confirming that he is eyeing up an April 2027 release date.

The upcoming season will adapt The Long Game, the sixth book in Rachel Reid’s Game Changers novel series, which revisits Shane (Williams) and Ilya’s (Storrie) romance ten years on from the Heated Rivalry novel. While they are still together, they remain publicly closeted in the book.

Also at the GLAAD Awards, Heated Rivalry star Robbie G.K. spoke about the second season, saying that it would be “fun” to get to film a wedding between his character Kip, and Francois Arnaud’s character Scott.

“I think it would be a fun scene to film,” he said coyly.

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