It seems that Canadian star Jack Innanen will not be appearing in the second season of Heated Rivalry after all.

And let’s just say, the show’s always-rational fan community haven’t exactly taken the news well.

However, on Wednesday, Entertainment Weekly confirmed that this would not be happening after all, citing a “source close to production” who claimed that Jack was offered the chance to join the cast, but had to turn it down due to scheduling issues.

While at the moment, we only have this undisclosed “source” to go off, the news has still spread quickly throughout the Heated Rivalry fandom, with many voicing their disappointment at no longer having the prospect of Jack joining the show to look forward to…

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NOOOO jesus was offered the role of god in the bible and turned it down ????

— vivi 🦈 (@sharkyfinss) June 10, 2026

what r the odds of the jack innanen sad news being fake so that when the casting announcement drops everyone’s liek omg!!!

— m 🏒 (@joondulac) June 10, 2026

jack innanen took one look at the fandom and decided it wasn’t worth deleting his entire media footprint over

— lu (@hudrated) June 10, 2026

HuffPost UK has contacted representatives for Jack Innanen and the Canadian broadcaster Crave for comment.

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Heated Rivalry became an unexpected TV phenomenon when it premiered on Crave last year, making household names of its lead stars Connor Storrie and Hudson Williams, and gaining an even bigger international audience when it was picked up by the streaming service HBO Max in the US.

Adapted from Rachel Reid’s Game Changers young adult novel series, the show was quickly snapped up for a second season at the beginning of this year.

Filming on the new episodes is due to get underway later this year, ahead of its release in April 2027.

Showrunner Jacob Tierney told Variety in December 2025: “We understand that everybody’s goal is to not do two years between seasons. And at the same time, I don’t want to put out a rushed shitty second season just because the show is very popular.

“But we’re very aware that our creative partners are enthusiastic and don’t want to wait too long. We’re getting back to work!”

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Season one of Heated Rivalry is available to stream on Sky and Now in the UK.

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Aristotelis Chantzis has entered the 130th day of a hunger strike in defence of the Community of Squatted Prosfygika in central Athens, as concerns continue to grow over plans to evict residents and redevelop the historic neighbourhood.

The second hunger striker, Suzon Doppagne, who joined the protest in solidarity on 1 May, is approaching 50 days of her hunger strike. More members of the community, some of them with serious health problems, have also announced plans to join the hunger strike.

The protest comes in response to a redevelopment plan approved by the regional government of Attica in June 2025 that would lead to the eviction of the approximately 400 residents of the Prosfygika neighbourhood. Residents include families with children, refugees, older people, oncology patients and their relatives, and people participating in rehabilitation programs.

The word “prosfygika” means “refugee settlement” and the community lives in a set of apartment blocks dating from the 1930s, when they provided housing for refugees from Asia Minor.

Supporters of the Community say they’ve seen no concrete rehousing guarantees. The case has increasingly drawn international attention from human rights organisations, legal experts, academics, and housing advocates.

Prosfygika delegation seeks international support

Recently, a delegation of the community went to Brussels, where they had meetings with over 20 members of the European Parliament. In a press conference on 4 June, Nikos Kolokotronis, a lawyer and member of the Committee for the Promotion and Defence of the Community and its Collective Memory, said that all MEPs committed to supporting the community and its struggle for justice.

This includes the submission of questions to the European Parliament, a joint announcement of their support for the Community and the prioritisation of this struggle, due to the urgency of the Hunger Strike.

They will emphasize that the EU-funded contract to evict the community relies on severe irregularities, such as a violation of the partnership principles.

On 27 April, Amnesty International called for the suspension of forced eviction plans and raised concerns regarding possible violations of fundamental and constitutionally protected human rights. Amnesty urged authorities to review the demands raised by the hunger strikers and residents in line with international human rights standards.

Additionally an official complaint has also been submitted to the UN Special Rapporteur on the right to adequate housing, who has reportedly taken up the case following concerns regarding potential human rights implications connected to the planned eviction process.

The Community of Squatted Prosfygika calls for participation in a demonstration in Syntagma Square, Athens at 12pm on 14 June and for national and international actions in solidarity with the struggle. In its statement the community declares:

We declare once again that this fight will continue to the end. From the first moment, we knew it was a struggle for life or death, dignity or submission, resistance or destruction.

The collective decision of the Community of Squatted Prosfygika and our two comrades who have decided to go beyond their limits, to fight until the end, with an understanding of the cost and unwavering faith in our victory.

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The International Centre of Justice for Palestinians (ICJP), in collaboration with the European Legal Support Center (ELSC) and Public Interest Law Centre (PILC), has written to the Metropolitan police asking them to assess the legal issues in relation to a London edition of the Great Israeli Real Estate event under the Serious Crime Act and if appropriate apply for a Serious Crime Prevention Order on 14 June.

ICJP previously issued a letter to the Met calling for an immediate investigation into the legality of the event and those associated with the event under UK domestic law, providing the Met with an overview of the event’s illegality.

The Great Israeli Real Estate event is one of a number of events aimed at marketing and facilitating the purchase of property in both illegal Israeli settlements located in the Occupied Palestinian Territories and cities within Israel.

According to promotional material, the event will feature consultants offering advice on property acquisitions, advertising properties as “your dream home” and providing support for:

important life planning needs in Israel, including burial services.

The Serious Crime Prevention Order letter serves as an urgent escalation in light of the imminence of the event and ICJP has stressed the time-sensitive nature of the situation.

This is yet another attempt to ensure the police uphold their obligations to investigate events of this nature without bias and take available legal measures accordingly.

Israeli property event demands urgent attention

The matters raised in the letter require immediate consideration of investigative steps, preservation of evidence, and assessment of whether preventative or enforcement action may be appropriate within the jurisdiction of England and Wales.

ICJP has raised grounds for concern of the event’s potential illegality under the Proceeds of Crime Act 2022 (ss. 327–329), the Fraud Act 2006 (s. 1), and the Serious Crime Act 2007.

As ICJP has previously noted, the UK government maintains that Israeli settlements in the Occupied Palestinian Territories are unlawful under international law.

The International Court of Justice’s July 2024 Advisory Opinion reinforced this position. It concluded that Israel’s continued presence in the territory is unlawful and that third states are under obligations not to recognise or assist in maintaining the resulting situation.

Órlaith Roe, ICJP’s public affairs and communications officer, said:

This order sets out further evidence of the serious concerns surrounding the illegality of this event, concerns we have already raised with the Metropolitan police.

Palestinian land is not for sale, and occupation is not a real estate opportunity.

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This event seeks to profit from a settlement enterprise that the UK itself recognises as illegal under international law. We have provided the Met with the evidence. The responsibility now lies with the authorities to act and prevent this event from going ahead.

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Judge Jeremy Johnson has imposed draconian sentences on four ‘Filton 25’ anti-genocide activists. Johnson had earlier refused to recuse himself from the case over his connections to the security services, Johnson also announced that he would impose ‘terrorism connection’ sentences despite none of the four ever being charged with terror offences, let alone convicted.

Palestine Action had not been proscribed as a terrorist group at the time when these activists were arrested.

Johnson first protected himself against appeals and censure by claiming he was allowing mitigating factors. He then also claimed that “aggravating factors” included upsetting employees of the Elbit death factory — and the fact that the activists wore red jumpsuits and used the word “intifada”.

The sentences imposed are:

• Two thirds of custodial sentences to be served in prison, then remainder term on parole.
• The four will be subject to terrorist notification requirements for fifteen years after release. These include having to report relationships, register phones and obtain permission to travel.
• Forty-five days’ reduction for being on curfew, except for Samuel Corner.
• All to be disqualified from driving, on release, for one year plus two thirds of the custodial terms imposed.

Filton 25 — Sentence terms

The defendants were not ordered to pay compensation unless police and Israel weapons firm Elbit bring private prosecutions.

Charlotte (Lottie) Head: 6 years (4 years + 320 days custodial)
Eleona (Ellie) Kamio: 6 years (4 years + 320 days custodial)
Fatema Zainab Rajwani: 5 years 8 months (4 years + 200 days custodial)
Samuel Corner: 8 years and 8 days

Corner was also convicted of grievous bodily harm as well as criminal damage, after intervening to protect one of the female actionists. All four have already been in prison for almost two years.

The UK justice system is subordinated to the interests of Israel and its enablers.

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When Gianni Infantino reserved an empty seat for French journalist Christophe Gleizes and called for his release so he could attend the 2026 World Cup, the FIFA president wanted to send a message of solidarity with a reporter who had been prevented from covering the world’s biggest football tournament.

But there are many more empty seats that FIFA’s president has chosen not to acknowledge.

There are Palestinian journalists who covered previous international tournaments, some of whom attended the 2022 World Cup in Qatar, but who will never make it to the 2026 tournament. Not because they are behind bars, but because they were killed during the war. There are also dozens of journalists in Gaza who have been deprived of the opportunity to cover the World Cup because of the realities imposed by war, siege, and border closures — circumstances that have found no place in Infantino’s speeches or press conferences.

Infantino defends French journalist

If Infantino believes that preventing a single journalist from attending the World Cup is an issue worthy of international attention, then surely the plight of journalists who have been prevented from practising their profession altogether — or who lost their lives while carrying a camera or a notebook — deserves at least the same concern.

This is not about ranking one journalist’s suffering above another’s. It is about consistency.

Over recent months, Infantino has repeatedly argued that FIFA cannot intervene in sovereign decisions made by states. He has said that visa restrictions and the exclusion of journalists, officials, and athletes from entering the United States fall outside FIFA’s remit and are matters for American authorities.

If that principle is valid in those cases, then it should apply consistently across all cases. It cannot be invoked when convenient and discarded when it is not.

He could have stood for principles

The FIFA president could have spoken up for the French journalist while also acknowledging the dozens of Palestinian journalists who will never have the chance to reach a World Cup stadium — or even return to their work. He could also have spoken out for the Somali referee who was denied entry to the United States to participate in the tournament, as well as journalists and sporting delegations who have encountered visa obstacles despite receiving official accreditation.

Instead, by highlighting one case while remaining silent on others that are arguably broader and more severe, FIFA leaves itself open to legitimate questions about double standards and the limits of the responsibility it chooses to exercise.

If football is, as Infantino often says, a force for bringing people together rather than dividing them, then fairness and solidarity should be applied universally. They should extend to every journalist denied the opportunity to cover the World Cup, regardless of their nationality or the circumstances that prevented them from being there.

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US president Donald Trump is erratic at the best of times. But his current tendency to threaten Iran with annihilation and then claim peace is at hand five minutes later comes from an awareness that he has lost the Iran war. In truth, we have known this is an American humiliation for a long time.

Iranian politics professor Hassan Ahmadian told Drop Site News on 12 June:

The United States has hit the hard rock of a formidable force that stopped its aggression and they have to deal with it.

President Trump realized that he cannot change the failure, the military failure of the war into a diplomatic win.

You can listen to the full interview below:

Drop Site is one of the few media outlets which has made a point of interviewing people within Iran, including state officials. Most of the legacy media have failed on this front, leaving the war poorly reported from the Iranian perspective.

Drop Site’s Jeremy Scahill wrote:

Throughout the U.S.-Israeli war with Iran, President Donald Trump has constantly flailed in his campaign to portray it as a historic success. The blunt reality is that what Trump announced as a quick and easy war of regime change rapidly transformed into a quagmire.

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For the past two months, Trump has struggled to find a way to declare victory, alternating between claims that Iran is begging him for a deal and threats to destroy Iranian civilization.

The jig is up, Trump and America are humiliated

US-Israel attacked Iran first on 28 February without provocation. Iran was offering unprecedented concessions in negotiations at the time. The Pentagon has since stated there was no imminent threat from Iran. And the UN’s atomic watchdog, the IAEA, has said there is no evidence Iran was developing a nuclear weapon.

The US has achieved none of its original war aims. Iran predictably closed the Straits of Hormuz, a vital oil channel, once attacked — creating a global energy crisis. Iran has said the war will continue until “the enemy’s inevitable and permanent humiliation, disgrace, regret, and surrender”. Trump came to power on an anti-war ‘America First’ ticket. He now faces worldwide humiliation.

In fact, the jig has been up for a long time.

US journalist Spencer Ackerman was saying as long ago as 1 April that America and Trump have been humiliated. And that they need to be made to feel it.

Ackerman argued that the warmongers can’t be allowed to get away with their ridiculous assertion that the US, which has achieved none of its goals, has in any way won:

A narrative that the 2026 War was a success will hasten both that return [to warfare] and to the deeper catastrophes it will unlock.

He warned that we must tell the truth of the US defeat or:

We will be right back here if the architects, the profiteers, the propagandists and the forerunners of this war get away with their evasions once again.

Trump has bitten off more than he can chew, to put it in simple terms. His desperation to exit the war looks increasingly obvious. Hubris dictates that the US president needs to appear to have won in some sense. But that ship — unlike the estimated 1600 vessels stuck in the Persian Gulf — has sailed.

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