WORCESTER’S Kit Harington is set to return for the new season of hit television show Game of Thrones next month.

The 30-year-old actor, who attended Worcester Sixth Form College, is expected to play a major role in the HBO medieval, Machiavellian fantasy show as it returns for a seventh season on Sky Atlantic on Monday, July 17.

One of two trailers shows his character, Jon Snow, apparently running for his life in a frozen wasteland, suggesting the battle with the White Walkers, mysterious creatures who lead an army of the undead, will feature prominently.

This is only to be expected after winter, which has been threatening to come for the last six seasons, finally arrived in the Seven Kingdoms during the last season.

For those of you who have been living in a cave or under a rock, Kit plays Jon Snow, Lord Commander of the Night’s Watch.

The Watch is a dwindling force of monk-like soldiers who man a giant wall of ice against savages called Wildlings and the sinister White Walkers who can command the dead.

Last season will be a hard act to follow for the actor after his character, who has grown accustomed to fighting the dead, returned from the dead himself after being repeatedly stabbed by his brothers from the Watch. He found time to hang his murderers, beat the Boltons in a bloody battle after the family took his home of Winterfell and Ramsay Bolton raped and beat his half-sister Sansa Stark and was proclaimed ‘King in the North’.

Kit Harington, who moved to Worcestershire at the age of 11, said in a previous interview that he loved Worcester Cathedral and follows the progress of Worcester Warriors (he played scrum-half himself at Chantry).

Kit first caught the acting bug at Chantry School in Martley, further developing his skills at Worcester Sixth Form College.

He also likes to socialise with friends at Heroes in Friar Street when he comes home and has been spotted in the Old Rectifying House in the city.

He has been to Tramps nightclub in the past and used to frequent the Marr's Bar in Pierpoint Street, often linking up with old friends at the Elgar Statue.

He also gets recognised by people from his past, especially if he has his hair down and grows his beard.