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Fans of the hit HBO series are desperate to gather as much information about the new season as possible and now Lena Headey, who stars as Queen Cersei, appears to have dropped a huge death spoiler.

Cersei is a favourite to be killed off when the show returns with Daenerys Targaryen (played by Emilia Clarke) eyeing up the Iron Throne and theories circulating that her brother Jaime (Nikolaj Coster-Waldau) will end her life.

And now, the actress has confessed that when she receives a script she rushes to the last page to find out if her character survives and appeared to reveal her fate.

Lena confessed to TIME magazine: "Last year, Peter Dinklage sent me a text that said, 'Oh my God, have you read them?' and I hadn't.