Ep. - 1501 - HEATED RIVALRY THE KARDASHIANS
Reality Life with Kate Casey
Kate Casey
4.4 • 7K Ratings
🗓️ 6 January 2026
⏱️ 49 minutes
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Summary
Reality TV producer and Fixing Famous People co-host Chris DeRosa joins Kate to discuss the latest season of The Kardashians on Hulu and Heated Rivalry, now streaming on HBO Max. The series is an adaptation of Rachel Reid’s bestselling novel about professional hockey rivals Shane Hollander and Ilya Rozanov whose rivalry turns into a secret romance.
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| 0:00.0 | The amazing Kate Casey. Welcome back for another episode of Reality Life with KKC and Happy New Year. |
| 0:08.4 | I'm so excited about today's episode. Chris DeRosa is back with me in this new year and we have a lot to |
| 0:14.4 | unpack. We're going to talk about this past season of the Kardashians on Hulu. I'm going to get |
| 0:19.2 | Chris caught up to speed. We're going to talk |
| 0:21.2 | about how Kim did not pass the California bar exam, my real concerns about Courtney's marriage, |
| 0:27.1 | and how Kylie never has to talk about her love life with the famous actor on the show. |
| 0:32.0 | Then we get into heated rivalry, which has become a cultural obsession. I was away for the holiday and I started to see all of |
| 0:39.8 | these videos of people in bars watching a season finale of a series and just losing their minds. |
| 0:46.8 | So immediately I was like, what is this all about? It's become a sleeper hit that seems to be taking |
| 0:51.5 | North America by storm. Originally published in 2019 by |
| 0:55.7 | Canadian author Rachel Reed as part of her Game Changer series, it's a gay sports romance |
| 1:01.3 | centered on Shane Hollander and Ilya Rosenov. They're two elite professional hockey players |
| 1:06.4 | who begin as bitter rivals on the ice. And then over the course of about a decade, |
| 1:10.8 | that rivalry |
| 1:11.5 | involves into a secret romantic and sexual relationship. It's a slow burn. It's this forbidden |
| 1:18.1 | romance, a story about ambition, pride, longing, self-acceptance, and it's all wrapped up in |
| 1:24.2 | the high-stakes world of professional sports. It's been adapted into this television |
| 1:28.8 | series. It is created, written, and directed by Jacob Tierney, and people say that it stays |
| 1:33.5 | remarkably faithful to the structure of the book. So we talk about the series and why women in |
| 1:40.9 | particular seem to love the story so much. Chris, of course, has his opinions, |
| 1:45.7 | and I think that if anybody has watched this series, you're going to enjoy this conversation. |
| 1:50.2 | And then Chris gives some suggestions on some other scripted series that he has been watching. |
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