'Game of Thrones' actor's deleted Instagram picture leads to wild Season 8 speculation

Caution: this article has spoilers-a-plenty.
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Warning: spoilers for Game of Thrones ahead. Avert your gaze if you wish to remain blissfully ignorant.

A Game of Thrones actor may have given us a slight clue as to the content of Season 8 with an errant Instagram photo. The photo has now been deleted.

Wilf Scolding is a relatively new addition to the Game of Thrones family, having played Rhaegar Targaryen in a crucial flashback (R + L = J, google it).

Scolding recently posted a picture on Instagram of himself outside a Belfast hotel. Belfast being where much of Game of Thrones is filmed, this of course led to speculation that Rhaegar will be returning to our screens in Season 8.

Flashbacks would probably be a good assumption if Rhaegar really is coming back, considering he got splatted by Robert's war hammer at the Battle of the Trident.

Perhaps we'll get more juicy family secrets revealed to us through Bran's creepy time-travel powers. Who knows!

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