This season of Celebrity Traitors is giving Heartstopper fans long-desired answers to behind-the-scenes theories and ships, thanks to Game of Thrones and Heartstopper star Sebastian Croft’s recent candid confessions. Last week, we learned that Croft had been in a secret three-year relationship with his costar Joe Locke, only to be dumped over the phone.
“Bash and Joe never made their relationship public, although Heartstopper fans had guessed they were dating,” a mutual friend told The Sun last week. “When Joe left him, Bash was heartbroken. Joe was his first great love.”
Croft has been in the industry for years at this point after impressing viewers in 2016 with his portrayal of a young Eddard Stark, the doomed Game of Thrones hero we only see in flashbacks after the first season. But even though Croft, at 24, is an industry vet with huge credits to his name, it hasn’t been easy. In a recent interview, he opened up about a schoolboy romance that left him gutted… and outed to the rest of his classmates.
Croft has been acting since the age of 7, but he left boarding school at 16 after one incident made him the target of bullying. He’d been secretly dating another boy at a private bo...