Ed Sheeran to join Game Of Thrones as guest star

Series showrunner David Benioff shared the news at the South by Southwest Film Festival in Austin, Texas over the weekend, during a Game of Thrones Q&A. “For years we’ve tried to include Ed Sheeran in the show to surprise Maisie, this time we finally made it”, they remarked.

That wasn’t the only big reveal from team GoT at SXSW, though.

No details of Ed’s role have been released but the upcoming season of the show will have its world premiere on Sunday, July 16, 2017.

Speaking about how the writing process breaks down, Weiss and Benioff said that they would split the load with two other writers.

Ed Sheeran is potentially on his way to Westeros – after Game Of Thrones producers confirmed he would be making a cameo in the hit HBO show. We wonder if they’ll get him to “Sing”?

What we do know though, is that Season 7 will be the second to last season, with the eighth season spanning over just six episodes.

“There’s only one war that matters: The Great War”, Jon says in the season 7 teaser. Still, when talking about how they’re going about writing the final episodes, they got in a few jokes at the crowd’s expense.

The album has also notched up the biggest first week sales for any male artist in the United Kingdom – only Adele and Oasis have albums that have sold more in seven days.

With the show being one of the most popular and talked about on TV, Williams asked how “Game of Thrones” stops spoilers from leaking out.