--- title: Game of Thrones: Jon Snow, Ygritte at Premiere Red Carpet description: Former co-stars Kit Harington and Rose Leslie showed up to the Game of Thrones premiere looking as glamorous and in love as ever. canonical: https://time.com/4856413/game-of-thrones-jon-snow-ygritte-premiere-red-carpet-photo/ author: Megan McCluskey article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2017-07-13T14:33:08.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-04-13T07:45:21.509Z og:title: Real-Life Couple Jon Snow and Ygritte Just Owned the Game of Thrones Premiere Red Carpet og:description: Kit Harington definitely knows more than his character og:url: https://time.com/4856413/game-of-thrones-jon-snow-ygritte-premiere-red-carpet-photo/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blta7ef1247a46f20a5/6988d586cf40a82f09c4887d/rose-leslie-kit-harington1.jpg?branch=production&width=594&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 594 og:image:height: 334 og:image:alt: Premiere Of HBO's "Game Of Thrones" Season 7 - Arrivals og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Real-Life Couple Jon Snow and Ygritte Just Owned the Game of Thrones Premiere Red Carpet twitter:description: Kit Harington definitely knows more than his character twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blta7ef1247a46f20a5/6988d586cf40a82f09c4887d/rose-leslie-kit-harington1.jpg?branch=production&width=594&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # Real-Life Couple Jon Snow and Ygritte Just Owned the _Game of Thrones_ Premiere Red Carpet > Sponsored content. 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Gregg DeGuire/WireImage  by [Megan McCluskey](https://time.com/author/megan-mccluskey/)  ## Megan McCluskey Staff Writer Jul 13, 2017 2:33 PM UTC Thanks to his commitment to honoring his Night’s Watch vows, [Jon Snow](http://time.com/4843257/game-of-thrones-jon-snow-targaryen-dragon-r-l-j-theory/) wasn’t able to hold on to his Wildling lady love Ygritte in [_Game of Thrones_](http://time.com/4429346/game-of-thrones-season-7-cast-news/). But in real life, the romance between [Kit Harington and Rose Leslie](http://time.com/4280629/game-of-thrones-kit-harington-rose-leslie-dating/) seems to still be going strong. The former co-stars — who made their public debut as a couple at last year’s Olivier Awards — showed up to the red carpet of Thrones’ season seven premiere Wednesday night looking as glamorous and in love as ever. “I think that’s the really special thing about it is that we met on this show and here we are seven years down the line back here promoting season seven,” Harington told [_Entertainment Tonight_](http://www.etonline.com/news/221436%5Fexclusive%5Fkit%5Fharington%5Freflects%5Fon%5Fsharing%5Fgame%5Fof%5Fthrones%5Flegacy%5Fwith%5Frose%5Fleslie/)of his relationship with Leslie. “I mean it’s mad. It’s such a special thing. I’m so privileged.” Of course, only Harington will actually appear in the coming seven episodes of the HBO drama. Leslie’s character was killed off during the season four Battle of Castle Black when she was shot in the back by Olly — who later also delivered Jon’s killing blow — while aiming an arrow at her old flame. See some of the couple’s cutest premiere moments below. > [](https://twitter.com/kumarajeet21/status/885373520288591873) > [](https://twitter.com/Kit%5FUpdates/status/885347564022898689) > [](https://twitter.com/gamofphoto/status/885367417584717824) > [](https://twitter.com/XGameofThrones/status/885384327449776132) > [](https://twitter.com/Neens%5FFra/status/885421081829552129) ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/4856413/game-of-thrones-jon-snow-ygritte-premiere-red-carpet-photo/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/4856413/game-of-thrones-jon-snow-ygritte-premiere-red-carpet-photo/"},"headline":"Real-Life Couple Jon Snow and Ygritte Just Owned the Game of Thrones Premiere Red Carpet","datePublished":"2017-07-13T14:33:08.000Z","dateModified":"2026-04-13T07:45:21.509Z","description":"Kit Harington definitely knows more than his character","url":"https://time.com/4856413/game-of-thrones-jon-snow-ygritte-premiere-red-carpet-photo/","keywords":["Newsfeed","Television","game of thrones","celebrities","Kit Harington","TV","Jon Snow"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blta7ef1247a46f20a5/6988d586cf40a82f09c4887d/rose-leslie-kit-harington1.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Megan McCluskey","jobTitle":"Staff Writer","url":"https://time.com/author/megan-mccluskey/"}],"articleSection":"","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blta7ef1247a46f20a5/6988d586cf40a82f09c4887d/rose-leslie-kit-harington1.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675,"headline":"Premiere Of HBO's \"Game Of Thrones\" Season 7 - Arrivals","caption":"Kit Harington and Rose Leslie arrive at the premiere of HBO's 'Game Of Thrones' Season 7 at Walt Disney Concert Hall on July 12, 2017 in Los Angeles, California.","creditText":"Gregg DeGuire/WireImage","representativeOfPage":true}],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/tag/time-section-newsfeed/","name":"Newsfeed"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/4856413/game-of-thrones-jon-snow-ygritte-premiere-red-carpet-photo/","name":"Real-Life Couple Jon Snow and Ygritte Just Owned the Game of Thrones Premiere Red Carpet"}}]}] ```