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01st Aug 2015

HBO Chief has spoke out about *that* Game of Thrones character

Does this confirm it once and for all?

Alan Loughnane

Beware, this article is dark and full of spoilers if you’re not up to date with Season Five of Game of Thrones…

If you cried like a baby at the last episode of Game of Thrones when Jon Snow became an improvised knife holder, you better get your tissues again.

Many have been debating that the Lord Commander of the Nights Watch isn’t actually dead but HBO’s top programming executive has come out to clear up that rumour.

“Dead is dead as dead as dead,” HBO’s programming president, Michael Lombardo, said during the Television Critics Association press tour this week.

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As if three ‘dead’ wasn’t enough, Lombardo came back to reinforce his point, “He be dead. Yes. From everything I’ve seen, heard, read, Jon Snow is indeed dead.”

That’s settled then, we can go and mourn the loss of our favourite character in peace, at least we still have Emilia Clarke look forward to, for now at least…

SAN DIEGO, CA - JULY 19: In this handout photo provided by WBTV - Game Of Thrones actor Emilia Clarke shares a smile with fans at the show signing in the Warner Bros. booth at the San Diego Convention Center on July 19, 2013 in San Diego, California. (Photo by Michael Yaris/WBTV via Getty Images)
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