Elizabeth Smart traded the podium for the posing stage

Smart was abducted from her Salt Lake City bedroom in 2002 at age 14 and held captive for nine months before being rescued. In the years since, she's built a public career around that experience rather than around it — founding the Elizabeth Smart Foundation in 2011, working as a commentator for ABC News on missing-persons and abduction cases, and testifying before lawmakers on child-safety legislation, including AMBER Alert improvements.

This year, Smart revealed she's been training for competitive bodybuilding, posting photos from a physique competition and describing months of structured training, careful macro-tracking, and daily walks. She's been candid that going public took real hesitation — she worried being seen in a bikini on a bodybuilding stage might make people take her advocacy work less seriously. In interviews, she's framed it as an extension of that work rather than a break from it: proof that a survivor's story doesn't have to stay frozen in the moment of the crime.

Her case is also back in the cultural conversation thanks to the 2025 Netflix documentary Kidnapped: Elizabeth Smart, which revisited her abduction and recovery. Smart is now married to Matthew Gilmour, with three children, and continues to run her foundation's awareness campaigns alongside her media work.

Heated Rivalry is a Canadian sports romance series adapted from Rachel Reid's Game Changers novels, following two closeted professional hockey players — rivals on the ice, something else entirely off it. It premiered in late November 2025 on Crave, with HBO Max carrying it internationally, and it turned into exactly the kind of word-of-mouth hit streamers hope for.

Much of the show's momentum has landed on its two leads: Hudson Williams, who plays Shane Hollander, and Connor Storrie, who plays his on-screen rival-turned-love-interest Ilya Rozanov. Both actors have since become fixtures on red carpets and fan pages, with the show's slow-burn tension frequently cited by critics and viewers as the reason it outperformed expectations for a mid-size streaming release.

The show's success has also pulled its cast into the wider gossip cycle — including renewed interest in Williams' personal life, which is its own story below.

Hudson Williams' girlfriend is Katelyn Rose Larson, a Vancouver-based tattoo artist who works at Pulse Vancity, specializing in fine-line tattoos. Williams first acknowledged the relationship publicly on Valentine's Day 2026 with an Instagram Story tribute, joking that Larson had been around "since my 2000 gold Mazda Protégé smoked and squealed and I had no job" — suggesting the pair have quietly been together since well before his Heated Rivalry breakout.

The couple made their first public red-carpet appearance together at the Vanity Fair Oscar Party on March 15, 2026, confirming months of fan speculation. Williams has been vocal about wanting to keep his personal life private, telling Deadline in December 2025 that he'd always valued a level of privacy even while imagining a public-facing career — and he publicly pushed back on unrelated dating rumors that circulated before Larson was confirmed.

Choi Mina Sue joined the largest cast in Single's Inferno history for Season 5, but she arrived with a résumé most contestants didn't have: she won Miss Earth in 2022, becoming the pageant's first-ever Korean titleholder. She's currently studying Communication at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign and has a minor acting credit in the K-drama Law and the City.

On the show, Choi ended up at the center of one of the season's most talked-about pairings: she and fellow contestant Samuel Lee (real name Lee Sung-hun) left the island together at the finale, a pairing that outlets covering the show flagged as one of the more unexpected — and most searched — outcomes of the season.

Samuel Lee, whose Korean name is Lee Sung-hun, made his first appearance on Korean television with Single's Inferno Season 5 — an unusual path for someone whose day job is quantitative trading at a New York hedge fund. He's a Bergen County Academies and UC Berkeley Computer Science graduate who spent roughly two years as a software engineer at Google before moving into finance.

Lee's sudden reality-TV fame came with a downside: he reportedly deactivated his Instagram after a wave of online rumors and speculation following the show's release, and later changed his handle after episodes aired. On the island, he ended up paired with castmate Choi Mina Sue by the finale, a plot thread that's driven a chunk of the post-season search interest in both of their names.