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When Kit met Rose: why we love it when Cupid’s arrow flies out of the screen | David Barnett

From Bogart and Bacall to from Game of Thrones actors Kit Harington and Rose Leslie, we want it to happen. And when it does, we wish it hadn’t
LONDON, ENGLAND - APRIL 09: Rose Leslie and Kit Harington attend The Olivier Awards 2017 at Royal Albert Hall on April 9, 2017 in London, England. (Photo by Jeff Spicer/Getty Images)

For those of us who inhabit that cosy little twilight zone where the boundaries between truth and fiction blur and smudge, there’s nothing nicer than when an on-screen love affair spills over into stark reality.

Stark being the operative word, as we’re talking Game of Thrones here, and Jon Snow, bastard of that particularly tough Northern dynasty, and his best Westeros girl, Ygritte. More specifically the actors who play them, Kit Harington and Rose Leslie, who it has been announced are to get married – in real, proper life.

Insert requisite spoiler warning here, but let’s hope the happy couple last longer than the four seasons their

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