MINI: Rio's Heated Rivalry Look A Like Competition

The Christian O’Connell Show

GOLD and iHeart Australia

Music, Comedy, Comedy Interviews, Music Interviews

4.7 • 823 Ratings

🗓️ 15 March 2026

⏱️ 7 minutes

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producer Rio's latest adventure takes a wild turn as he recounts his experience at the Heated Rivalry lookalike competition. From the chaotic crowd to the hilarious challenges, Rio shares the inside scoop on what it was like to participate in this unique competition. With a dash of humor and a pinch of embarrassment, Rio dishes out the details on the night's events, including a surprise win and a very special prize.

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0:00.0	iHeart podcasts you can hear more gold 104.3 podcast playlist and listen live on the free iHart app got anything good
0:10.6	hey this is the christian o'connell show podcast all right i'm desperate to know.
0:21.6	I resisted the urge to contact you all weekend to ask you, how did it go?
0:26.3	Rio entered a looky-likey competition, a very unique look-a-likey competition Saturday night.
0:32.4	Yes, it was for the show, heated rivalry, bigger show in the world at the moment, a steamy gay drama, full of super fans all over the world, and they held a look-alike competition at a big nightclub here, right near my house. So, when you mean a look-in-like competition for the two main, the love interests? Yes, so there's two, yes, there's two hockey players who fall in love, their rivals, and then they become lovers.
0:54.9	And so there's a lookalike competition. And that's why it's heated rivals. Exactly, exactly. Oh my God, I only just heat. Yeah. Because they heated. Yeah. There you go. And so they held a big, it's got, you know, super fans all over the world. So they decided to hold a lookalike competition. but we also didn't really know what that meant.
1:13.3	Like what do you just walk around? Like, what does it involve? So on Friday, you were talking about this. You thought you were allocated two minutes to do. You didn't really know every idea what you were doing. They didn't tell us. And I totally couldn't have been less prepared for what I was walking into.
1:28.0	So we get to the nightclub and we've producer Tina, she's sort of like my posse, my, my, my tour
1:32.4	manager. We rock up to the nightclub. And that's quite a look for you too. So you got you
1:37.4	dress as a gay hockey player and then you've got the old Greek nonner in waiting.
1:42.0	Yes, like entourage.
1:46.3	They always were on with Canoloni.
1:49.6	So on the boo-boos like your corner man.
1:53.7	Yeah, if she's on my shoulder, we walk up to the nightclub and immediately join to the floor because there is a queue around the block.
1:56.8	What?
1:57.5	500 people lining up around, weaning its way around the corner.
2:02.2	I walk in,
2:03.5	people immediately start shrieking.
2:06.6	Like Harry Stiles had just walked past them.
2:08.9	It was crazy.
2:10.7	And describe the people there.
2:12.8	98% straight millennial women.
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