Excuse Me, Kit Harington Is Talking About How He Fell In Love With Rose Leslie

This post containts plot points from Game Of Thrones. Spoilers!

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Maybe you didn’t get enough sleep last night. Maybe you have a whole load of boring Monday morning life crap to deal with right now. Maybe your favourite shows just got cancelled or you’re devastated about cuts to the arts or the election or the fact Game of Thrones didn’t tell you what was happening in that fucking tower last week. Whatever the case is, I think we could all use a little pick-me-up.

First, the initial joyful fact: Kit Harington and Rose Leslie are a couple.

The actors who play/played on-screen love interests Jon Snow and Ygritte on Game of Thrones have reportedly been seeing each other on and off for the past few years. They’ve been spotted getting very close since around 2012 but have remained very private about the whole thing. In 2014, Harington denied they were anything more than friends. Then, earlier this year, things like this started surfacing and promptly sent every Game of Thrones fan into heart failure:

Their relationship was publicly confirmed when they went to the Olivier Awards together in April and started smooching on the red carpet.

Now Harington’s opened up further in a feature interview with Vogue Italia. After discussing the stress related to keeping his character’s fate a secret for the past year, he spoke broadly about his time on the show.

“[My best experience was] the three weeks in Iceland when we were shooting the second season,” he said. “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…”

For those playing at home, the second season of Game of Thrones filmed in 2011 which means this thing has been going on between them for half a decade. Help.

Interestingly, all this is mighty different from what Harington told The Evening Standard just a couple of years ago. When denying rumours of a relationship, he said “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… I have no desire to be courting the press with my love life. It’s not my job, it’s not who I am — and I actually think it’s more fun for everyone to speculate. The minute I start telling people things are true or not true, then it’s just boring.”

He was right about the first bit: Harington certainly doesn’t have any duty to tell the world about his personal life or relationship status. But he was very wrong on the rest. This is the opposite of boring.