Is Hudson Williams Single? Heated Rivalry Star Reveals The 'IRL Teammate' Who Was There Before Fame

Hudson Williams has finally answered the 'Hudson Williams single' question in Los Angeles, confirming on Valentine's Day that he is in a relationship and not, as the internet long insisted, unattached. The Heated Rivalry actor did it via a brief Instagram Story, writing that a longtime partner was there for him 'when I had no job' and he was driving a sputtering 2000 Mazda Protégé.

It mattered because the update was both new and oddly small, the first time he had publicly acknowledged the relationship since the HBO drama turned him into a household name. What is known is that the relationship predates his breakout and that he is choosing not to share a name or a face.

The Hudson Williams Teammate Who Knew Him Before the Whirlwind

Williams has been remarkably consistent about the things that keep him grounded. He grew up attending a performing arts school, began hustling in his teens and has repeatedly credited his friends and family — the ones who don't care about fame — with making sure he stays the same person beneath the headlines. In Wonderland, he described them as his internal compass: they ask whether he's being kind, whether he's treating people well, whether he's letting success warp him.

It was during that same run of interviews that he casually revealed the existence of the 'teammate' who has been with him since the Mazda days. They were there long before red carpets. Long before Milan runways, Golden Globes presentations and Olympic torchbearing duties. Long before anyone screamed outside hotels for Shane and Ilya — and long before people started assuming he and Storrie must be dating offscreen too.

Hudson Williams Single Rumours And The Heated Rivalry Attention Machine

The same attention that elevated Williams has also produced a steady stream of noise, some of it petty, some of it invasive. He has faced anonymous podcast critiques, social-media gossip, and speculation that matching 'Sex Sells' tattoos shared with Storrie signalled a hidden off-screen romance. Storrie, according to the account, told Teen Vogue the tattoos came after a long brainstorming session, while Williams framed it as 'provocative but playful', a neat summary of how easily a joke becomes a narrative when thousands of people want it to.

Williams has not played along when rumours turn lazy. After Deuxmoi suggested he might be dating the tattoo artist, he responded online with 'I've grown quite unfond of you deuxmoi', which Variety reported before the post was deleted. He has also pushed back on stranger claims, including that he wrote most of the Letterboxd reviews attributed to him, and he even pinned down his height as 'precisely 5-foot-11.7' for anyone still litigating it in comment threads.

He has offered flashes of personality that feel like they were never designed for a press release. He has joked about fashion and needing to 'up my bracelet game', and he has said he journals in two notebooks, a detail that prompted comparisons to Joan Didion that he did not ask for. He has also spoken openly about the 'electric chemistry' with Storrie, while acknowledging that translating it into the bruised tenderness of Shane and Ilya took work rather than magic.

What he will not do is surrender the private to the public simply because the public is loud. He told Deadline that speculation about his sexuality is part of the cost of fame, but he is determined to keep the boundary intact, and his pre-fame relationship sits squarely inside that line.

Professionally, the pace is not slowing. Heated Rivalry has been renewed and that his next project, Yaga, is already underway with Crave. Williams has framed the next phase as an argument against typecasting, saying 'I want to break the idea of Shane,' and insisting he does not want to be boxed into playing a 'square guy in a romance' forever. Theatre, musicals, film, he wants all of it, and the subtext is hard to miss, you do not build a wider career by letting internet fantasies write your biography.