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Heated Rivalry’s Hudson Williams Details Receiving Messages From Closeted Pro Athletes<\/p>\n
Hudson Williams<\/strong><\/a> has been scoring some meaningful private messages.<\/span><\/p>\n In fact, the <\/span>Heated Rivalry<\/span><\/em><\/a> actor, who plays closeted gay hockey star Shane Hollander opposite <\/span>Connor Storie<\/strong><\/a> (Ilya Rozanov) on the Crave\/<\/span>HBO Max<\/span><\/a> show, revealed that he has received multiple DMs from closeted LGBTQ+ athletes who appreciate the show.<\/span><\/p>\n \u201cThe people who reach out, somewhat anonymously, who are like, \u2018I’m a professional player still, and I’m still in the closet,\u2019\u201d Hudson said in <\/span>a Jan. 7 clip<\/span><\/a> from his appearance on <\/span>Andy Cohen<\/strong><\/a>\u2019s SiriusXM show <\/span>Radio Andy<\/span><\/em>. \u201cThey\u2019re [also] reaching out to <\/span>Rachel<\/strong> [<\/span>Reid<\/strong>], our author, who will then kind of relay these lovely anonymous emails.\u201d\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n The 24-year-old added of the hockey, football and basketball players he\u2019s heard from, \u201cSometimes they\u2019re just reaching out privately through Instagram, and those ones are the ones that really just kind of hit you and go, \u2018Oh, so this is a fun show, and it\u2019s celebratory, but also sometimes it\u2019s just hitting people right in the nerve.’\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n But gratitude isn\u2019t the only emotion Hudson has felt in the six weeks since the show premiered for U.S. audiences on HBO Max. Indeed, he\u2019s fully aware that his viral popularity is \u201ccrazy.\u201d\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n