{"id":1200,"date":"2026-02-08T10:27:56","date_gmt":"2026-02-08T00:27:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/rhinoeasy.com\/?p=1200"},"modified":"2026-02-08T10:27:56","modified_gmt":"2026-02-08T00:27:56","slug":"heated-rivalry-francois-arnaud-connor-storrie-fuel-rumors-with-dinner","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rhinoeasy.com\/?p=1200","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;Heated Rivalry&#8217; Fran\u00e7ois Arnaud &#038; Connor Storrie Fuel Rumors With Dinner"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Fran\u00e7ois Arnaud might be choking on that &#8220;none of your f***ing business&#8221; line he tossed at Andy Cohen &#8230; &#8217;cause the rumors about him dating Connor Storrie are getting louder, steamier, and a lot harder to dodge!<\/p>\n<p>TMZ snagged photos of the two actors settling in for a cozy dinner at the old-school, fancy Smoke House in Burbank &#8230; and while there wasn\u2019t full-on PDA, the energy was very much date night. Dim lighting, nonstop laughs, and that locked-in, only-you-exist vibe said plenty.<\/p>\n<p>There\u2019s no denying the chemistry here &#8212; and if this is the real deal, Fran\u00e7ois better brace himself for even more backlash from diehard &#8220;Heated Rivalry&#8221; fans who seriously struggle separating fantasy from real life. Even NHL Commissioner Gary Bettman has said he is a big fan.<\/p>\n<p>For those not fully caught up &#8212; Connor plays half of a forbidden, fan-obsessed romance with Hudson Williams\u2019 character Shane Hollander in the steamy, queer hockey drama &#8212; and viewers are deep in their feelings. So deep, in fact, that when Connor was first spotted with Fran\u00e7ois &#8212; who plays Scott Hunter in the show &#8212; at JFK earlier mid-June, the internet spiral got ugly fast &#8230; including reported death threats.<\/p>\n<p>Bottom line &#8212; the frenzy isn\u2019t slowing down. Whether this turns into a full-blown IRL romance or not, fans (and Andy Cohen) may want to cool it, stop fanning the flames, and wait for S2 to get their fix of Connor\/Shane\u2019s on-screen chemistry.<\/p>\n<p>Play video content 1\/19\/2026 Bravo<\/p>\n<p><strong>Source: RhinoEasy News<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Fran\u00e7ois Arnaud might be choking on that &#8220;none of your f***ing business&#8221; line he tossed at Andy Cohen &#8230; &#8217;cause<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1199,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"colormag_page_container_layout":"default_layout","colormag_page_sidebar_layout":"default_layout","footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1200","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-entertainment"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rhinoeasy.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1200","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rhinoeasy.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rhinoeasy.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rhinoeasy.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rhinoeasy.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1200"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rhinoeasy.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1200\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rhinoeasy.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1199"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rhinoeasy.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1200"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rhinoeasy.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1200"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rhinoeasy.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1200"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}