Game of Thrones star Gwendoline Christie has dismissed the chances of a certain Baratheon surviving long enough to see season six.

Fans have debated whether Stannis (Stephen Dillane) may not be dead after all, due to the fact that viewers didn't actually see Christie's Brienne of Tarth plunging her sword into his neck.



However, Christie has insisted there is no way that Brienne would have either missed or spared Stannis, and that he is very much dead.

"I can't offer you any insight whatsoever [why his death wasn't shown onscreen] because I don't write the show and I don't direct the show... yet," she told E! News.

She added: "No, but how could you ever doubt Brienne? What did you think I was doing, giving him a haircut?"



Stannis isn't the only character whose fate is hanging in the balance, as fans continue to speculate whether Kit Harington's Jon Snow is coming back for season six after his apparent demise.

Christie joked that Brienne could bring Snow back to life with "mouth-to-mouth resuscitation".

Meanwhile, Isaac Hempstead Wright has confirmed that he will return to filming on the hit HBO drama at the end of this month as Bran Stark, following a season-long absence.

Game of Thrones will return for a sixth season on HBO and Sky Atlantic in 2016.

This content is created and maintained by a third party, and imported onto this page to help users provide their email addresses. You may be able to find more information about this and similar content at piano.io