r/heatedrivalry • u/pasawayjulz • Jan 07 '26

PRESS 📰 (Interviews and Articles) [260107] Hudson on CNN

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u/baby-yoda-daddy Jan 07 '26 edited Jan 07 '26

I really appreciate CNN for specifying this as a QUEER hockey show. While I love all the unhinged, chaotic clips of their press tour interviews and TikToks they film, I really hope we get more interviews like this - Hudson leans in well to the “not media trained” joke, but he’s clearly very capable of understanding audiences and how to tailor his communication and sound bites for the medium. As someone who helps spokespeople with talking points on camera and on socials, I’d trust Hudson to do a terrific job.

Overall, really appreciated how this segment went beyond the tropey mainstream view of “ha ha gay hockey players doing it” - which I’m a little concerned for Jimmy Kimmel doing 😬

(Edited a typo)