All to know on Schitt’s Creek’s Emily Hampshire as she joins Heated Rivalry Season 2
Emily Hampshire will play Vanessa. (Jesse Grant/Getty)
Schitt’s Creek star Emily Hampshire is set to be a star in the second season of Heated Rivalry.
The 44-year-old Canadian star will join the hit show as Vanessa, a lesbian character. Her casting announcement came as part of the second wave of new arrivals.
She will be starring alongside the existing cast of Connor Storrie and Hudson Williams, who play hockey rivals-to-lovers Ilya Rozanov and Shane Hollander.
As the hype for Heated Rivalry season two continues to mount, here’s everything you need to know about new cast member Emily Hampshire …
Who is Emily Hampshire in Heated Rivalry season 2?
In season two of Heated Rivalry, Hampshire will join as Vanessa. She is a character who appears in Tough Guy, the third book from Rachel Reid’s Game Changers series.
Tough Guy follows the relationship between NHL hockey player Ryan Price and androgynous musician Fabian Salah.
Throughout the book, Vanessa becomes a close friend and confidante to both Ryan and Fabian. She is also the roommate of Tarek (played by Priyanka).
In the book, Vanessa is described as a feminist lesbian who works at a sex shop in Toronto. She also runs a sex toy review blog, as you do!
The next season will draw on Role Model (book five), alongside the show’s central adaptation focus, The Long Game (book six). Role Model centres on the relationship between the Centaurs’ social media manager, Harris Drover (Justice Smith), and complicated hockey player Troy Barrett (Charlie Gillespie). Meanwhile, The Long Game continues Ilya and Shane’s journey as a couple.
However, the casting of Vanessa suggests Jacob Tierney will also look to Tough Guy for plot points. Casting announcements for Fabian and Ryan have not yet come out, though Abdalla Amour is rumoured to have been cast as Fabian.
Is Emily Hampshire queer?
Yes, Hampshire identifies as pansexual.
Speaking about coming out, she cited Schitt’s Creek as having a major part to play.
On Instagram in 2019, she wrote: “So… [true story] way back when we shot this scene I didn’t know what [pansexuality] was.
“CUT TO: Five years later I find myself regularly explaining my own pansexuality to people with, ‘It’s like, I’m into the wine not the label.'”
Hampshire was in a relationship with female singer-songwriter Teddy Geiger and got engaged in November 2018. However, they ended their engagement in June 2019.
What else has Emily Hampshire been in?
You may best recognise Hampshire as motel clerk and co-owner Stevie Budd in the beloved series Schitt’s Creek.
Fans were also quick to point out that Hampshire had previously worked with François Arnaud, who plays closeted hockey star Scott Hunter in Heated Rivalry. In fact, Heated Rivalry will be their third collaboration after Schitt’s Creek and the horror film Mom.
Also, Hampshire has starred in Boy Meets Girl, 12 Monkeys, Anne of Green Gables: The Animated Series andRuby Gloom.
Alongside the hockey show, Hampshire is set to star as E.D.I.T.H. in the upcoming Marvel miniseries VisionQuest. E.D.I.T.H. is a security and defense AI system that appears in a physical, human form.
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