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Rose Leslie gave Kit Harrington an "awful semi-shaved" haircut in lockdown

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Photo credit: ANGELA WEISS - Getty Images

From Cosmopolitan

We all remember Jon and Ygritte's love story on Game of Thrones. Even people who have never watched the show know the line, "You know nothing, Jon Snow." And as though the story couldn't get any better, Jon and Ygritte (aka., Kit Harington and Rose Leslie got together in real life shortly after their characters did on the show. The couple even got married in an idyllic ceremony in Scotland in 2018, where Leslie's father owns a castle, obviously.

Here's everything we know about the couple's notoriously private relationship, with the most recent update first.

October 2020

Rose speaks about how the couple spent their time in lockdown, saying that at one point she gave Kit an "awful, semi shaved" haircut, while the pair were quarantining together at home.

"I was on FaceTime to a friend at the time," she told the New York Post. "He was like, 'Can you do the back, because I can’t see it with the mirror?' And I was so engrossed with my girlfriend, we were having such a lovely time, and I was like, 'Yeah yeah yeah, fine, whatever'."

Rose apparently then took the scissors in her left hand, despite being right handed, and absent mindedly chopped away.

"And… I dug too deep. I dug too deep! It was rather hilarious, but also awful. Fortunately, he looks great with a semi-shaved head, so it was fine," she explained. Fingers crossed he does, Rose.

Photo credit: SMXRF/Star Max
Photo credit: SMXRF/Star Max

And here's the rest of Rose Leslie and Kit Harington's relationship timeline...


2011

We don't know exactly when in 2011 Kit and Rose met, but they began filming scenes for GOT together in 2011. Reportedly, however, they didn't fall in love until after their characters did, which happened gradually from season two onwards, with THE steamy cave scene taking place in season three. Although in August of 2012 TMZ shared several pictures of them holding hands in a restaurant in London.

May 2014

At some point in the years between 2011 and 2016 Kit and Rose become a couple, we don don't officially know when since they're so private about the relationship (fair enough), but in 2014 Harington told Evening Standard that they were just friends, but that he would keep it to himself if he had a girlfriend anyway.

Photo credit: HBO
Photo credit: HBO

"All rumour and myth," he said. "Me and Rose are very, very close and very good friends. And continue to be, actually. She’s wonderful. But no, no love affair.

"On a serious level," he continued. "I wouldn’t tell the press if I was in a relationship or not. I wouldn’t ever reveal that, because it takes you down a certain road…"

April 2016

Rumours have been swirling for ages with no confirmation, but finally Rose and Kit make their official debut as a couple on the red carpet of the Olivier Awards in London.

Photo credit: Julian Parker
Photo credit: Julian Parker

May 2016

In an interview with Italian Vogue, Kit speaks about how the pair fell in love, describing his best memory of filming the show, "The three weeks in Iceland when we were shooting the second season. Because the country is beautiful, because the Northern Lights are magical, and because it was there that I fell in love. If you’re already attracted to someone, and then they play your love interest in the show, it’s becomes very easy to fall in love…".

Photo credit: HBO
Photo credit: HBO

April 2017

Rose and Kit give us an uncharacteristically intimate insight into their relationship, when Kit plays an April Fool's prank on Rose, putting a prop of his own severed head from Game of Thrones on the top shelf in the fridge.

He spoke about the prank on The Jonathan Ross Show, saying, "My family does April Fools. Her family doesn’t do April Fools, and after that, she was in tears, and I was there going, 'April Fools!' It didn’t go down well."

It is quite funny, sorry Rose.

May 2017

Kit talks about moving in with Rose in an interview with Esquire saying that he and his then-housemate had decided to look for new places, "He's going off with his girlfriend and I'm living with my girlfriend," he said, before saying the relationship was off-limits in the interview.

"'Cause it's as much her relationship as it is mine and I can't speak for both of us. But yeah, we are very, very happy. So that's what I'll say about that."

By July, it was being reported that the pair had moved in together in this idyllic timber property in East Anglia.

Photo credit: Rex
Photo credit: Rex

September 2017

On the 26th September a rumour began going around that the pair had got engaged. Then, a day later an announcement appeared in the paper. That's right, in the paper! How cute, it's like the olden days.

October 2017

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Photo credit: Samir Hussein - Getty Images

Kit tells The Guardian why he and Rose don't take pictures with fans, detailing the polite and rehearsed rejection he gives when asked, "But you just have to," he defends. "Otherwise you start feeling like a mannequin. Especially me and Rose, we never do a photo together. Because then it makes our relationship feel like… puppets... like we’re a walking show."

He then explained the pair's decision not to speak about each other in interviews, "I just don’t – and I won’t say much about it now – but I don’t believe in talking about one’s relationship in the press because it’s… I strongly believe it’s her relationship and mine, and anything I say here, she may not want me to say. So I just don’t say it. I genuinely think it’s our private life.”

June 2018

Rose and Kit tied the knot in an idyllic, traditional ceremony on 23rd June at Kirkton of Rayne church in Aberdeenshire, which was attended by the who's who of Westeros and The Seven Kingdoms... aka, the cast of Game of Thrones. Sophie Turner, Maisie Williams, Peter Dinklage and Emilia Clarke all showed up for the big day.

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Photo credit: Mark R. Milan - Getty Images
Photo credit: Mark Milan - Getty Images
Photo credit: Mark Milan - Getty Images
Photo credit: Mark Milan - Getty Images
Photo credit: Mark Milan - Getty Images


November 2018

A Russian model called Olga Vlaslova tweeted what she said was a nude photo of Harington, telling a Russian newspaper that she and Harington met in Luxembourg and slept together several times before and after his marriage to Leslie.

A rep for Harington quickly denied the story, saying "The allegations in this story are completely false," his rep says. "[Harington] has never even been to Luxembourg nor has he ever met Olga Vlasova."

The fact that he's never even been to Luxembourg makes this pretty conclusive, really doesn't it.

April 2019

Rose and Kit walked the red carpet together at the premiere of the final season of Game of Thrones, looking every bit the happy couple.

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Photo credit: Paul Bruinooge - Getty Images

June 2019

The couple quietly celebrate their first wedding anniversary after Kit returns from a month in a wellness retreat, which he attended to work on some "personal issues", according to a representative.

A source, told People, "since Kit left the Connecticut wellness center, he is back in London with Rose. The two are enjoying the summer, spending time with family and friends. Kit seems well. And Rose seems happy that he is back in London. While he was in Connecticut, she was lying low. It seemed their focus was just getting Kit feeling better. And he does look better. Kit and Rose seem happy."

January 2020

The rarely seen couple make an appearance at The Golden Globes, looking as in love as ever on the red carpet. Harington was nominated for Best Actor for his role as Jon Snow in the final season of Game of Thrones, which incidentally, was the series' only nomination at the 2020 Golden Globes. Ouch.

This was also the first time the pair had been photographed together since Harington left a London-based treatment centre in June 2019 ahead of the GOT finale on HBO, with his publicist stating he was using the break in his schedule "as an opportunity to spend some time at a wellness retreat to work on some personal issues."

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Photo credit: Steve Granitz - Getty Images

September 2020

Rose Leslie and husband Kit Harington are believed to be expecting their first child, after pictures of Rose with a growing baby bump emerged.

The pregnancy was revealed in an interview for digital publication Make Magazine, and fashion editor Ursula Lake uploaded a picture to her Instagram account, captioned: "A very special all woman team photographic shoot capturing Rose at this wonderful time as she prepares for motherhood for the first time!"

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