The latest teaser for Connor Storrie’s Saturday Night Live episode was released Thursday.
The 26-year-old, joined on stage by musical guest Mumford & Sons and cast member Sarah Sherman, opens the video sharing how surprised he is to be at SNL. “You blew up so fast,” Sherman tells the host. “No, I know, I know, and I haven’t even had any media training,” he joked before being bleeped out.
Later in the video, Sherman joked that one of wishes for the show was “getting a big kiss from Connor,” before they, alongside Mumford & Sons, pretended to make out on the stage.
Storrie is set to make his SNL debut on Saturday (Feb. 28). The hosting gig, announced last month, is the latest in a long string of appearances for Storrie and his co-star Hudson Williams since the queer Canadian hockey drama Heated Rivalry took off at the end of 2025. Last month, Storrie, who has signed with CAA, and Williams served as torchbearers ahead of the 2026 Olympic Games and presented at the Golden Globes.
The actor is in talks to join the ensemble cast of Molly Gordon and Allie Levitan’s A24 comedy Peaked. If the deal makes, Peaked will mark the first post-Heated Rivalry role for Storrie. Levitan is also a writer on SNL.
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Heated Rivalry, hailing from Canadian streamer Crave and airing on HBO Max in the U.S., centers on a fictional hockey universe based on books by Rachel Reid. The show focuses on two rival professional players — Canada-born Shane Hollander (Williams) of the fictitious Montreal Metros and Russia-born Ilya Rozanov (Storrie) of the fictitious Boston Raiders — as they navigate a near-decade-long situationship-turned-relationship.
Crave renewed Heated Rivalry for a second season, and HBO Max confirmed it will continue to air the series. Reid announced earlier this year that she’ll be publishing her seventh book in the Game Changers series, which Heated Rivalry and its sequel The Long Game belong to. The book, Unrivaled, will be the next chapter in Shane and Ilya’s story. She announced Tuesday that she’d be pushing the book to a 2027 release date.
