Kit Harington & Rose Leslie are officially engaged after five years together

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I love that out of Game of Thrones, this is the real-life couple that emerged: Kit Harington and Rose Leslie. He’s dark, brooding and tiny. She’s ginger, happy and even smaller. He knows nothing. She knows too much. They are perfect together. They started dating during the season of Game of Thrones where they became on-screen love interests, and I get the feeling there was at least one breakup in those years. But they got back together at some point, and they’ve never been apart. When Kit was promoting GoT earlier this year, he even talked openly about moving in with Rose in London, and whether they were going to buy a place in New York. So… this isn’t surprising: they’re getting married!

Long-term loves Kit Harington and Rose Leslie are engaged, sources have claimed. The Game Of Thrones actor, 30, has reportedly popped the question to his co-star girlfriend of five years Rose Leslie, also 30. The smitten couple, who shut down engagement speculation over the summer, are rumoured to have told friends and family last week that they’re set to wed.

‘They’re yet to set a date, but told friends and family last week that they’ve got engaged,’ a source told The Sun. ‘Kit’s known for ages he’s wanted to marry Rose but he wanted them to get a house and settle down a bit first.’

The insider claimed Kit felt marriage was the natural next step for the couple after they moved into a £1.75million mansion in East Anglia.

‘After moving in together in January he felt it was the right time to take the next step,’ they said. MailOnline have contacted reps for Kit and Rose for comment.

‘I’ve moved in with my other best friend Rose, so I’m very happy,’ Harington told chat show host James Corden in June. ‘It’s going well, so she’s got all sorts of ideas for the house. I said to her, cause she’s moved into my house, ‘Look darling, it’s important that this is our space. That it feels like our space. That you haven’t just moved into mine. Move anything you want around, change anything, chuck anything out.”

[From The Daily Mail]

I’m really happy for them! This news actually made my day. I love them together and you could just tell that Kit knew Rose was “the one,” especially in the past few years. They weren’t trying to hide their love away and make it all secret-y or whatever – they openly walked red carpets together and supported each other’s projects. He seems crazy in love with her. Sigh… props to Rose Leslie. She gets to settle down with Jon Snow in real life. Bless her.

Oh, and the engagement has been officially announced now! They put the announcement in the Times, just like Eddie Redmayne & Hannah, and Benedict Cumberbatch and Sophie Hunter.

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  1. Jack Daniels is my patronus says:

    I feel like I already knew this??? Maybe it was just rumored.

    • willow85 says:

      nicole kidman asked him why they weren’t engaged when he said they were living together on corden. it’s been circled around since.

  2. Tanguerita says:

    I am such a sucker for officially engagement announcements)) congrats to Ygritte and Jon.

  3. Lindy says:

    Awww, that makes me happy. Good for them and I hope they have a happy life.

  4. smcollins says:

    I love this! They are so cute together and I wish them lots of happiness. ❤️

  5. elay says:

    Adorable couple! Very happy for them.

  6. Honest B says:

    Congrats guys! I love them!

  7. Nicole says:

    Wasn’t this announced already?

  8. ell says:

    she supports conservatives, so i can never like her.

    • Odette says:

      Yes. They’re both that type of posh.

      • ell says:

        he’s been quite vocal about being against brexit though, so i don’t think he’s like that. she is, and has campaigned for the tories. idk how they stay together tbh, i could never be with someone with political ideas so different than my own.

      • elay says:

        I think is her father no Rose.

      • Odette says:

        Gotcha. Didn’t know he was anti-Brexit. My bad. I guess I, wrongly, assumed her politics were his, because yeah, her’s are…not my cup of tea.

      • QueenB says:

        Elay: her father is a politican, thats not her fault but campaigning for them is.

      • Halina says:

        A lot of Tories are pro EU, just like a lot of Labourers (sorry if it’s not a real word) are pro Brexit.

    • CynicalAnn says:

      They’re both posh but just because their families are conservative politically doesn’t mean they are.

  9. lucie says:

    Rose is a Tory and Unionist, i don’t understand this couple

  10. Nancy says:

    Finally some celeb news that makes sense. Sometimes on screen couples do hook up and I’m so glad it was Rose and not his Aunt Dani. Congrats Jon Snow.

  11. Carolina says:

    I was so sure blind gossip was right and that they were definitely just dating for publicity that this was a a sucker punch. I mean congrats! but totally did not see it coming

    • cr says:

      This is why you don’t trust blind gossip, because for the most part they’re just throwing things out there and seeing what sticks? And they’ve been together for 5 years, well after she left the show, so not for publicity.

      • Carolina says:

        I believe they were on and off but now i do not know what to trust, i really believed BG to be true to their word, guess that’s one site i will stop visiting

      • ell says:

        i only trust lainey when it comes to blinds. BG gets it right sometimes, but half of them are just guesswork.

      • cr says:

        No blind gossip is trustworthy, not even Lainey, who seems to get a pass on this. They may get lucky with educated guesses but most of it is bs. I know it is fun for some people but take it with ocean sized grains of salt.

      • msw says:

        BG is almost as bad as CDAN. Remember CDAN’s gambling and hookers addict who was eventually revealed to be Ben Affleck, Toby McGuire AND Topher Grace? LOL

      • tty says:

        Lainey is legit. Some of her blinds are really boring, and she can go months without any new intel. It’s the sites that seem to have a new blind every week that you should be skeptical of.

      • magnoliarose says:

        Blinds are not to be trusted no matter who writes them. Sometimes someone with a clear agenda sends them in like the one that said Angelina beats her maids. I mean if that were true it isn’t something that would stay hidden, and it is outrageous and obviously, someone who hates her who invented it.

    • Jane says:

      Oh Carolina …. you seriously believe those sites? Have you led a sheltered life?

      • Carolina says:

        clearly i’m more naive than i thought possible, what surpirses me is that neither him nor her have said anything about it. Also i don’t know how marriage ads work so i may totally be wrong but could it be possible that anyone wrote that? Or do you need to prove who you say you are for those types of annoucements to be printed?

      • Meggles says:

        No, the Times only print ads from the people (or usually parents) in question. There is 0% possibility the announcement is not legit.

    • Jenny says:

      I haven’t followed him in gossip or her so I had no idea they were dating. For some reason I’ve been convinced for a long time that he was gay. Apparently I was wrong. It happens, not often, but it happens. 😉

    • JeanGrey says:

      Oh BG is holding steadfast to it. They updated yesterday that although the news of Rose and Kit was circulated, somehow the “source” was never confirmed? They seem to have info on he and Emilia hanging out together at all times of the day to the wee hours at night into the dawn, visiting nude beaches together, having intimate dinners without other cast members, etc. Just the two of them. BG is actually pretty good at calling blinds. They called Jessie Williams and Minka Kelley, they called Fergie and Josh and they were right about Pimp Mama Kris and her scheme to have three of the Koven pregnant at once as a story arc, sooooo.

      • ell says:

        but it’s been confirmed that they’re engaged.

      • Originaltessa says:

        I mean, there are also people that believe Robert Pattinson and Kristen Stewart have 3 kids… Is an official engagement announcement not enough? Is there more evidence needed?

      • magnoliarose says:

        He and Emilia are very close friends. Some of these people have worked together before. The two of them are always running around teasing each other and hated kissing each other. I don’t buy it until there is proof. They don’t need to go this far as no one would care much if it didn’t work out.

  12. Beth says:

    He’s only 30? I thought he was years older than 30

  13. Jess says:

    Awe, I love the newspaper announcement!

  14. Katherine says:

    Ads like that one are so classist I can’t even

  15. littlemissnaughty says:

    I find these announcement so old-timey and … weird. Especially mentioning the parents is so 19th century.

    I don’t like GoT so maybe that’s why I don’t get the hype around him. He seems so whiny and decidedly not fun. I don’t know, maybe that Times announcement just threw me off.

    • Originaltessa says:

      A lot of those announcements are submitted by the parents, and the kids just go along out of respect for their parents. I did a lot of things during my wedding and engagement, just out of tradition and love for my family, that otherwise I never would have done.

      • Elisa the I. says:

        Aaaah, now the announcement makes more sense as I also find them so out-dated and conservative.
        They seem well-matched and finally a couple that doesn’t look alike. 🙂 They had great chemistry on screen!

      • magnoliarose says:

        I like that it is old fashioned. As Originaltessa said, you want your family to be happy, so you just go along. It was more important to me to see my family happy especially my grandparents and parents that it was harmless to go along with some things they wanted.

    • Hollie says:

      That’s a lot to say an engagement announcement in a newspaper turns you off to someone my god. They’re both from very well to do families, it’s probably tradition. Nothing harmful about it.

      • littlemissnaughty says:

        I think you went really serious really fast here. I didn’t say the announcement alone turned me off. He’s a whiny guy, that’s the main reason. I don’t know anything about her at all.

    • Chinoiserie says:

      In my county marriage baby and death ones are practically required so it feels wierd to me that I still think engagement announcement it’s odd lol. Maybe it was how it was worded. If is just “name and name were engaged on a date” like the marriage ones are it would feel more normal.

      • Hollie says:

        Understood. I’m American and this is a bf different from the ones you see in NYT but look below to the next announcement and you can see that’s just the format.

      • The Hench says:

        Oh yes, getting hitched has some very weird ‘traditions’ and formats. The ‘proper’ way to reply to a wedding invitation, for example, is in the third person:

        The Hench thanks Mrs Pilkington-Fothergale for her kind invitation to the wedding of Esmeralda and Tarquin on the 10th September at 3 O’clock and has great pleasure in accepting.

      • DM2 says:

        Exactly. Engagements, marriages, deaths (complete with photos, sometimes), and births are very normal here. Engagements and marriages are usually put in the weekend editions of the newspapers, with births and deaths daily. It would be strange *not* to see these announcements submitted.

  16. tracking says:

    I was not that into her GOT character, but I’ve been enjoying her work in The Big Fight.

  17. Nikki says:

    They seem super cute to me. Best wishes!

  18. Lucy says:

    I needed something to make me smile today. This did!! Congrats to them, they seem very happy together.

  19. AV says:

    She literally grew up in a castle, because she’s aristocracy. It’s tradition for rich folk to announce the legitimacy of their “match.”

  20. Meggles says:

    According to CDAN he’s simultaneously gay and also having a big passionate affair with the actress who plays the dragon lady.

    Mazel tov to them. Loved her in Utopia (rip Utopia).

  21. FF says:

    Yes! I like them together.

  22. Dee Kay says:

    Love him in GoT and have loved her in everything I’v seen her in: Downton Abbey, GoT, and now The Good Fight. A talented pair of actors. Too bad she is pro-Brexit, I didn’t know that. I’m coming to a point where I think only idiots, and I mean real morons, can possibly be pro-Brexit or pro-Trump.

  23. Zondie says:

    Wishing them the best of luck!! That newspaper announcement may seem very staid but I find it comforting and charming.

  24. Meg says:

    I’m not saying I look like rose, but we have the same coloring-pale, freckles, red hair- i was laughed at in London for being a ginger and would think he was too good for me so it’s nice to see a ginger with a hot guy

  25. themummy says:

    He’s 5′ 8″. That’s not tall, obviously, but I don’t know that I would call it “tiny,” though.

    • Valois says:

      I’m pretty certain he’s not 5″8. I met him and our height difference was definitely more than an inch.

      I think it’s more his body type that makes him
      seem tiny. If he were a woman, we’d call him petite I guess. Similar to Alicia Vikander who appears tiny but is actually not that small.

      I have no idea why I’m in the process of writing an essay on this guy’s height, sorry 😀

  26. msw says:

    The newspaper announcement is precious, and I don’t mean that in an insulting way. I think that’s my favorite bit.

  27. DesertReal says:

    As a liberal with a conservative soul mate, I say this couple can make it.
    Wildling babies to come!

  28. ash says:

    hope this blind is NOT true…..

    just came ouot today and i kinda believe it https://blindgossip.com/?p=87404

  29. ValiantlyVarnished says:

    I love them together. They make a really cute couple.

  30. WendyNerd says:

    Of course there are lunatics on tumblr who are angry about this because he’s with Rose and not Emilia. “He couldn’t have waited until the show is over? It costs $15 million per episode!” “I’ve been crying for hours!”

    I didn’t know Nutty Madam is a GoT fan.

    • magnoliarose says:

      Oh my! That is why I question rumors about him.

    • ArtHistorian says:

      The insanity of those people gobsmacked me! There was one user who posed a pic of their engagement notice beside a pic of The Twin Towers burning with a caption saying something like: the two worst septembers… It was just disgusting. These people don’t know the difference between fiction and reality. Ship Jon and Dany to your heart’s content but leave the actors alone.

  31. K says:

    He’s 5’8, not tiny