--- title: Kit Harington Pranks Rose Leslie in Horrifying Video description: The 'Game of Thrones' actor attempted an April Fool's prank on his fiancée — but it backfired when she found it a little too believable. canonical: https://time.com/4974416/kit-harington-prank/ author: Raisa Bruner article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2017-10-09T15:00:32.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-04-13T07:47:52.618Z og:title: Kit Harington's Pranked Rose Leslie Game of Thrones Style og:description: He's learned his April Fool's lesson the hard way og:url: https://time.com/4974416/kit-harington-prank/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt0c2367ee4ed600e6/6988e11122fb85bbb8e23301/kit-harington-rose-leslie.jpg?branch=production&width=3840&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: Premiere Of HBO's "Game Of Thrones" Season 7 - Arrivals og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Kit Harington's Pranked Rose Leslie Game of Thrones Style twitter:description: He's learned his April Fool's lesson the hard way twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt0c2367ee4ed600e6/6988e11122fb85bbb8e23301/kit-harington-rose-leslie.jpg?branch=production&width=3840&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # Video Shows Kit Harington's Prank on Rose Leslie Was as Brutal As _Game of Thrones_  by [Raisa Bruner](https://time.com/author/raisa-bruner/)  ## Raisa Bruner Oct 9, 2017 3:00 PM UTC  LOS ANGELES, CA - JULY 12: Actor Kit Harington and actress Rose Leslie attend the season 7 premiere of "Game Of Thrones" at Walt Disney Concert Hall on July 12, 2017 in Los Angeles, California. (Photo by Jason LaVeris/FilmMagic) LOS ANGELES, CA - JULY 12: Actor Kit Harington and actress Rose Leslie attend the season 7 premiere of "Game Of Thrones" at Walt Disney Concert Hall on July 12, 2017 in Los Angeles, California. (Photo by Jason LaVeris/FilmMagic)Jason LaVeris—FilmMagic  by [Raisa Bruner](https://time.com/author/raisa-bruner/)  ## Raisa Bruner Oct 9, 2017 3:00 PM UTC When it comes to pranks, _Game of Thrones_ actor [Kit Harington](http://time.com/4959441/kit-harington-rose-leslie-love-story-timeline/) is not messing around. His newly-announced [fiancée](http://time.com/4959071/kit-harington-rose-leslie-engagement-announcement/) Rose Leslie learned this the hard way last April, when [Jon Snow](http://time.com/4956042/game-of-thrones-kit-harington-jon-snow-dragon-meeting/)‘s alter ego took his macabre sense of humor to the next level, playing a prank on Leslie that she would not soon forget. (Maybe all that time on the _Thrones_ set fighting off decomposing, reanimated corpses is rubbing off on him — and desensitizing him to gruesome scenes.) The prank: a severed head modeled in his likeness, placed casually inside the refrigerator for her to unwittingly discover. The reaction: screams, tears, utter despair. In a new appearance on the _Jonathan Ross Show_, Harington shared the video he took of Leslie’s horrified response. While funny in retrospect, it wasn’t quite a win for Harington. “My family does April Fool’s. Her family doesn’t do April Fool’s,” Harington explained. “After that, she was in tears. And I was there going, ‘April Fool’s.’ It didn’t go down well.” In fact, although it was a successful prank, it doesn’t sound like he’s converted Leslie to the joys of April Fool’s in the slightest. “She pretty much told me if I did it ever again, that would be it, and I think that’s marriage included,” he said. The couple, who met on the _Thrones_ set while filming in Iceland, [announced](http://time.com/4959441/kit-harington-rose-leslie-love-story-timeline/) their engagement at the end of September. ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/4974416/kit-harington-prank/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/4974416/kit-harington-prank/"},"headline":"Video Shows Kit Harington's Prank on Rose Leslie Was as Brutal As Game of Thrones","datePublished":"2017-10-09T15:00:32.000Z","dateModified":"2026-04-13T07:47:52.618Z","description":"The 'Game of Thrones' actor attempted an April Fool's prank on his fiancée — but it backfired when she found it a little too believable.","url":"https://time.com/4974416/kit-harington-prank/","keywords":["Newsfeed","game of thrones","celebrities","Kit Harington"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt0c2367ee4ed600e6/6988e11122fb85bbb8e23301/kit-harington-rose-leslie.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Raisa Bruner","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/raisa-bruner/"}],"articleSection":"","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt0c2367ee4ed600e6/6988e11122fb85bbb8e23301/kit-harington-rose-leslie.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":"Premiere Of HBO's \"Game Of Thrones\" Season 7 - Arrivals","creditText":"Jason LaVeris—FilmMagic","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/4974416/kit-harington-prank/","name":"Video Shows Kit Harington's Prank on Rose Leslie Was as Brutal As Game of Thrones"}}]}] ```