GAME of Thrones made headlines for all the wrong reasons after a plastic coffee cup was spotted during a scene in its final series.
The HBO fantasy series saw its medieval vibe thrown out the window when the rogue beverage gatecrashed a tense banquet in Winterfell.
Soon the hunt was on for the culprit behind the blunder and given Daenerys Targaryen actress Emilia Clarke’s proximity to the cup, she was initially blamed by fans.
However, Emilia subsequently cleared her name by accusing Varys actor Conleth Hill of being responsible.
Suffice to say Conleth was having none of it as he claimed it way beyond the realms of feasibility for him to be the culprit.
During the tongue-in-cheek chat, he insisted he wouldn’t have been able to reach the centre of the table where the cup was left.
"I would need to have had Mr Man arms to leave a coffee cup there," he said on Sunday Brunch.
"I took a bullet for Emilia Clarke and she touted on me.
"You know, there’s no proof that I did it. So accuse away!"
He also insisted that the gaffe wasn’t a sponsorship deal, as some wild conspiracy theorists had claimed.
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5"I’m just not making any comments until I have a lawyer… It definitely wasn’t product placement!" he concluded.
Alas, this means we’re back at square one, with no fresh leads on who left the cup on show.
Emilia previously told her side on the story and put her friend in the frame during an interview on The Tonight Show with Jimmy Fallon.
“Here’s the truth,” she began as the studio audience watched on with baited breath.
“We had like, a party before the Emmys recently, and Conleth [Hill], who plays Varys, who’s sitting next to me in that scene, he pulls me aside and he’s like, ‘Emilia, I’ve got to tell you something. I’ve got to tell you something, love.
“'The coffee cup was mine!’ It was his! It was Conleth’s coffee cup. He said so.”
Next Clarke explained why she thought he didn’t come clean sooner.
“He’s like, ‘I think so, I’m sorry darling, I didn’t want to say anything because it seemed [like] the heat was very much on you.’ And I was like, ‘What?!’
“He might have been drunk, but he said it.”
Game of Thrones’ Targaryen prequel series House of the Dragon is currently in production.
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