Heated Rivalry season two will include fan favourite steamy scene from the books, author confirms

Heated Rivalry author Rachel Reid has confirmed that one of the defining, fan favourite moments from her Game Changers book series will appear in season two.

Spoiler alert! This article contains spoilers for The Long Game by Rachel Reid, and thus for season two of Heated Rivalry.

During a conversation with romance novelist Talia Hibbert at an event in London on Sunday (8 March), Reid reportedly told fans in attendance that the explicit trophy room scene, which features in The Long Game, the sixth book in her series, will be adapted in season two.

According to those in attendance, the author told the crowd that she didn’t have to “fight” the Heated Rivalry creative team to include the steamy scene, and that everyone involved in the scene is “excited” to film it.

The trophy room scene arrives during a pivotal moment of Shane Hollander (Hudson Williams) and Ilya Rozanov’s (Connor Storrie) relationship, after Shane’s close friend and ice hockey teammate Hayden (Callan Potter) accidentally outs the couple to a fan.

Hayden records a video for a fan and sends it off to them, without realising that he caught Shane and Ilya kissing in the background. After the video arrives in the fan’s inbox, it quickly becomes a viral sensation.

Struggling with the publicity and having to come out in such a manner, Shane is down and in need of a pick me up. Thankfully, Ilya has just what he needs, but he can only give it to him in Shane’s team’s trophy room.

In there, surrounded by all of Shane’s various medals, trophies and career keepsakes, Ilya bends Shane over a chair, and gives him “a couple of slow thrusts”.

“Are you all turned on thinking about your… many. Accomplishments,” Ilya says in the book, thrusting into Shane.

“I feel like I am f****** a king right now,” Ilya says, grabbing Shane’s hair. “Do you know how powerful this feels, f***** a king in his throne room? You are Shane f****** Hollander. If you ever forget that, I will drag you back in here and f*** you until you remember.”

At some point during the raunchy scene, Ilya grabs a vibrating sex toy to slide over Shane’s manhood, taking their encounter one step further.

How Crave and HBO plan on bringing the jaw-dropping moment to the big screen, we have no idea, but it’s happening.

In fairness, it would’ve been hard for the show’s director Jacob Tierney to leave on the cutting room floor. In addition to being a solid fan favourite moment, it’s also one of Hudson Williams’ most anticipated scenes in season two.

Speaking to The Cut, Williams said that he read The Long Game after wrapping filming on season one of Heated Rivalry, adding that the trophy room scene was the one he’s most looking forward to adapting.

“If you know you know,” he added with a cheeky smile.

The Long Game will be adapted for season two of Heated Rivalry. It zooms forward ten years into the future, with Ilya and Shane still in the closet publicly, but thankfully still together. It focuses on the couple working out how to navigate taking their romance into the public eye.

Heated Rivalry season two is set to film this summer and will premiere in April 2027.

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