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Hair today - you know nothing. Kit Harington in Game of Thrones.
Hair today … you know nothing. Kit Harington in Game of Thrones. Photograph: Helen Sloan/AP
Hair today … you know nothing. Kit Harington in Game of Thrones. Photograph: Helen Sloan/AP

Kit Harington spoiler alert: he's still got long hair – and now he's in Belfast

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That’s right, the Game of Thrones star has been seen in the city where the show is filmed with the same hair as his character, Jon Snow. Prompting uncontrollable speculation that he might be back for the next season …

Spoiler alert: this blog contains details about the end of season five of Game of Thrones

If your hobbies include ghoulishly following people around and obsessing about their hair to a genuinely creepy degree, then congratulations! Kit Harington – the man who played Jon Snow in Game of Thrones until his character died at the end of the last series, and then recently attended Wimbledon with a vaguely Jon Snowish haircut – has now travelled to Belfast, and his hair still hasn’t changed very much. This must be huge for you. This is basically your Christmas.


The fact that this is news at all – and it is news, judging by last night’s Mail story that featured 10 different photographs of Harington and the eternal mystery that is his hair – is down to the fact that Game of Thrones is shot in Belfast, and several other Game of Thrones stars are currently in Belfast for a table read of the next series. Does this mean that Jon Snow is dead or alive? What else can we conclude from this sighting? Let’s run though the options.

Jon Snow didn’t die


That’s the implication here, after all. Harington is in Belfast because Game of Thrones isn’t done with Jon Snow yet. He survived his stabbing, or he has been resurrected, and he is doomed to struggle on towards some sort of greater destiny.

Jon Snow did die, but his corpse will still be in Game of Thrones


This might happen. Perhaps there will be some sort of elaborate funeral scene in an early episode, and Harington had to travel to Belfast to rehearse it.

Dead or just very cold? Kit Harington in Game of Thrones. Photograph: HBO/Everett/REX Shutterstock

Jon Snow didn’t die, but he was mortally wounded and will die at some point during the next episode


Actually, you’re right. If he’s dead, why would he attend a table read? The man wouldn’t have any lines. So perhaps instead he will die midway through the first episode, and his presence at the table read is down to the fact that he will intermittently have to say lines such as “Gurgh” and “Ow”.

Kit Harington misses his friends


Let’s not forget that a huge percentage of Harington’s life has been spent working with these people, and for most of the year they are scattered across the globe. If he wanted a reunion with his former colleagues, the best time to schedule it would be when they were all in the same place. Maybe that’s it. Maybe Kit Harington is just a good friend.

Sam and Jon … John Bradley-West with Kit Harington. Photograph: HBO/2015 Home Box Office, Inc. All

Kit Harington really likes Belfast


And why wouldn’t he? Belfast has many enviable attractions and amenities, ranging from The Ulster Folk and Transport Museum to the Pirates Adventure Golf complex on Old Dundonald Road. Maybe Kit Harington really just likes crazy golf. Ever thought of that, huh?

Kit Harington enjoys having long hair


Again, a perfectly reasonable explanation. Long hair is a luxury that most men simply can’t afford. I can’t grow long hair, for instance, because it makes me look like an unkempt testicle. Maybe this is a way for Kit Harington to assert his masculinity.

Kit Harington enjoying a game at Wimbledon’s Centre Court. Photograph: GLYN KIRK/AFP/Getty Images

Kit Harington loves attention

Perhaps Harington actively enjoys relentlessly being followed around all hours of the day by hundreds of professional and amateur photographers, all hoping that they can fund their next holiday with an image that proves beyond all doubt that he’s still in Game of Thrones. Perhaps that’s his favourite thing in the whole wide world. And, if that’s the case, who should deny him that pleasure? Not us.

It’s just a television programme, and you’re all adults, so maybe just try being patient for once

This one is the least likely of them all, to be honest.

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