Hudson Williams Reveals Relationship in Valentine's Day Tribute to Girlfriend

Love was in the air this Valentine's Day for Heated Rivalry star, Hudson Williams.

The actor hard-launched his relationship with his longtime partner over the weekend, sharing a tribute to his lady love on his Instagram stories. In the post, Williams shared several photos of the pair, including a few mirror selfies, screenshots of them FaceTiming, and photos of the couple lying in bed together. Williams' Heated Rivalry co-star, Connor Storrie, also made the cut, with the photo collage featuring a pic of both Williams' partner and Storrie with a heart drawn around Storrie's face.

"Happy Valentine's Day. With me since my 2000 gold Mazda Protégé smoked and squealed and I had no job," Williams, who worked as a server at the Spaghetti Factory in Canada before the show's success, wrote over the photo montage.

The Valentine's Day post comes amid rumors about the otherwise private TV star's love life, spurred in part by celebrity gossip blog, DeuxMoi, who reported in December that Williams has a girlfriend who is a tattoo artist. While he tried to quiet the conversation online, the 25-year-old actor, who skyrocketed to fame in the hit Canadian series, playing a closeted hockey player, appears to have leaned in to the rumors by setting the story straight on his love life.

Based on the MM romance novel by Rachel Reid, Heated Rivalry has blown up after streaming on HBO Max, gaining a hoard of fans that have been following both Williams and Storrie's every move. And while there's been plenty of speculation about his and Storrie's sexual orientations, in an interview with Deadline, Williams chalked it up to "the nature of celebrity."

I think there's never a question for me, when I would dream of becoming in the public eye, that I would want just a level of privacy.

He continued, "But of course, I agree. I want queer people telling queer stories, but also, there's the element of Connor and I — we're best friends, and we love expressing that physically."

Storrie has also commented on his outward physical affection for Williams, calling the friendship between the pair "misunderstood." In an interview with Variety, Storrie detailed how their close bond has often been sexualized by fans who have shipped them IRL since the show's release.

"It's really enlightening about the culture of how men and man-on-man affection is received because you don't see that a lot. It's taboo for men to be friends and grab each other a certain way or hold hands. And me and Hudson being in such a sexual circumstance with one another, it's really interesting to watch people sexualize our very amicable signs of affection," Storrie shared.

That just shows where the culture is still at in a way like, 'Oh, these two men…' Just because we’re really comfortable with each other, and we love each other, we've been through the craziest experience together, we're on this crazy roller coaster together, if I have my hand on his leg as we're sitting down doing a press thing because he's my best buddy and I love him, and we have that level of comfort.

"It's just interesting that that instantly gets turned into, 'They’re more than friends,'" he added.

As for Storrie's love life, the actor has remained mum on that — for now.