Here's what the cast of 'Game of Thrones' looks like in real life

"Game of Thrones" goes to great lengths to bring George R.R. Martin's Westeros to life. 

Costume designers and hair stylists for the show draw inspiration from cultures from all over the world in order to capture this expansive and diverse world.

The cast members themselves are always willing to commit, whether they play a king, a queen, or a knight. Some wear lavish wigs while others chop their hair right off.

Many of the actors are barely recognizable in real life. If you passed by a few of them on the street, you probably wouldn't even know it.

In season five, Sansa Stark goes for a new, darker look as she tags along with Little Finger.

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In real life, Turner dyes her hair for the show. When her character had red hair, they had to use a "mix of four different watercolor shades."

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Here's how Kit Harington looks as Jon Snow.

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He looks a bit more clean shaven without his Night's Watch uniform.

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Maisie Williams plays Arya Stark, who at one point had to pretend to be a boy in order to survive.

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Williams looks far more like a princess in real life. The 18-year-old actress cuts her hair short for the show. She's one of the only female characters that doesn't wear a wig.

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Lena Headey plays the conniving and calculating Cersei Lannister.

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Headey looks a lot different without her long wig. She's a brunette!

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As Margery Tyrell, Natalie Dormer isn't the only actress who hides her hair under a wig.

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In reality, she's a natural blonde.

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Nikolaj Coster-Waldau is the handsome king-slayer Jamie Lannister on the show.

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Outside of the series, he doesn't look all that different.

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As Brienne of Tarth, Gwendoline Christie is one of the fiercest warriors in Westeros.

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Christie looks remarkably transformed at a fashion show. The actress cuts her hair short for "Game of Thrones."

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"I struggled for a long time with [cutting] my hair, but then I’m grateful for the opportunity to realize that femininity doesn’t have to come from hair or any of those traditional female archetypes of appearance, So, that’s been exciting actually," Christie told TV Guide.

For the season five premiere, Peter Dinklage grew his hair and beard out to play Tyrion Lannister.

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He cleaned up for the show's red carpet premiere.

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Emilia Clarke plays the very blonde Mother of Dragons, Daenerys Targaryen.

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But in reality, Clarke, a brunette, is nearly unrecognizable as Daenerys.

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Theon Greyjoy has gone through a lot of changes on the show. Last season, he transformed into the beaten, brainwashed Reek.

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Greyjoy is played by Alfie Allen, who doesn't look like he has ever had to answer to Ramsay Bolton.

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The wig Dutch actress Carice van Houten wears to play Melisandre is among the 30 or so wigs used on set. Each hairpiece can cost up to $7,000.

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In real life, the actress is a lot livelier than her "Game of Thrones" counterpart.

Five adults found dead inside Phoenix home after a police standoff

Five adults were found dead inside a north Phoenix home after a shooting Thursday in a suspected family dispute, police said.

The names and ages of the three men and two women weren't immediately released. But police said the three men apparently were brothers and the dead women were the men's mother and a spouse of one of the brothers.

A woman who was able to leave the home told officers that it was a family dispute gone wrong, police spokesman Sgt. Trent Crump said.

"Our dispatcher could hear shots fired in the background while that call was coming in," Crump said. "A caller had been able to escape the home at that point, get out and start to give us information."

The caller reportedly exited the home with two children. Crump could not immediately confirm the caller's relationship to the people inside the home, but police believe it may have been a family dispute that led to the shooting.

It wasn't immediately clear how many people fired shots, but police say they weren't looking for any outstanding suspects.

Officers discovered the bodies after an hours-long barricade situation in a residential neighborhood. Witnesses at the scene said they heard the sound of muted gunshots about an hour after a standoff began.

TV footage showed several SWAT team officers breaking the glass of a back patio door to enter the home.

The SWAT team used a robot to search the house before sending in a dog and officers, Crump said.

World’s first head transplant volunteer could experience something "worse than death” - Surgeon

Last week, 30-year-old Russian man, Valery Spiridonov, announced that he will become the subject of the first human head transplant ever performed. Val, who's paralyzed from waist down, says he wants his head removed from his non-functioning body and installed on another person’s able body.

He volunteered himself as a guinea pic after Italian surgeon Sergio Canavero said head transplant was possible and outlined the transplant technique he intends to follow. But now a top surgeon said Val will experience a death worse than death is he goes ahead with this...

"A Werdnig-Hoffman disease sufferer with rapidly declining health, Spiridonov is willing to take a punt on this very experimental surgery and you can't really blame him, but while he is prepared for the possibility that the body will reject his head and he will die, his fate could be considerably worse than death.”

"I would not wish this on anyone," said Dr Hunt Batjer, president elect of the American Association for Neurological Surgeons. "I would not allow anyone to do it to me as there are a lot of things worse than death."

Even if the transplant succeeds which is unlikely, several medical experts say the world does not even know it will do to Val's mind.

"There’s no telling what the transplant - and all the new connections and foreign chemicals that his head and brain will have to suddenly deal with - will do to Spiridonov’s psyche. It could result in a hitherto never experienced level and quality of insanity". - the surgeon said

How the 'Rich Kids of Instagram' spent their spring break (Balling)

What did you do for spring break?

Probably nothing as fun as the "Rich Kids of Instagram," wealthy young adults whose lavish lifestyles are documented on a two-year-old Tumblr and Instagram account. The account's anonymous creator compiles pictures from the world's richest young Instagram users.

We took a look at the Rich Kids of Instagram earlier this year, but we're checking back in to see what they've been doing this spring. We weren't shocked to find that they've been partying it up, drinking lots of Champagne, and flying on their private jets to exotic locales.

This spring, the "Rich Kids of Instagram" took to their private jets ...

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... their yachts ...

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... and their Lamborghinis to travel.

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Even their dogs fly first class.

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They went to Australia ...

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... ate dinner in Paris ...

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... sunbathed in Miami ...

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... visited their mountain homes in Beaver Creek ...

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... and rode yachts in the Bahamas.

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Some of them roughed it by staying home.

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They drink a lot of Champagne ...

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... or at least take pictures with bottles of it.

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But they weren't just partying ...

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... they found time to go shopping, too.

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Which is worth more: the 100-carat diamond or the Lichtenstein painting in the background?

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South Africa's xenophobic attacks: Fear and shame

A graphic video depicting a group of South Africans setting alight a group of bound young people, initially believed to be foreigners, after dousing them in fuel, has gone viral.

Saturday's development comes on the back of a series of incidents reported by local media, and after the South African Human Rights Council, a human rights body in the country, along with other concerned parties raised an alarm on Thursday about renewed attacks on foreign migrants in the country.

They called on the South African government to condemn the attacks.

"We are still to hear top members of government condemning the current xenophobic violence," Marc Gbaffou, chairman of the African Diaspora Forum (ADF), wrote in an open letter. 

"We cannot discriminate, not in this sort, not any more."

Despite the resurgence of violent attacks on foreigners migrants in South Africa, the government is yet to acknowledged that the violence may be xenophobic in nature.

The government has instead attributed the attacks to "crime" and criminal behaviour.

Local media has reported that hundreds of foreigners have, since March 30, been seeking refuge at local police stations in the city of Isipingo, south of coastal city Durban.

One woman has been shot dead after her shop was looted and another man was beaten during an anti-xenophobia march.

The latest incident occurred on Friday when a foreigner-owned shop was petrol-bombed.

This is not the first time that xenophobic attacks have erupted in South Africa. In May 2008, 62 people were killed in attacks that swept across the country.

The video , trending on the social media website Twitter since the early hours of the morning, in South Africa, Kenya and in the UK, along with the hashtag #XenophobiaSA, shows the victims surrounded by people jeering the attackers on as they are set alight

Standing in the middle of this football field that has been turned into a refugee camp overnight in Chartsworth, one cannot help but feel ashamed of being South African.

There are white and green tents dotted around housing destitute African migrant families who fled the violence meted out to them by their South African hosts.

Two weeks ago locals began attacking and looting properties owned by fellow Africans, calling them "kwerekwere", a derogatory word in South Africa for African migrants.

I did not even have to ask Memory Mahlatini, who works as a nanny, what happened to her because her story was written all over her face.

'We are scared'

Her eyes alone made me look down in shame as she explained how a group of South Africans came to her rented home last Monday evening just as they were preparing to sleep and demanded that they go back to where they came from.

Hundreds of foreigners have been forced to flee the violence in South Africa

While taunting Ms Mahlatini and her husband, electrician Innocent Chazi, the crowd were banging doors saying "shaya, shaya", which means "beat, beat" in Zulu.

Ms Mahlatini said that their four children - Melissa 11, Milton, who is eight, and three-year-old twins Modify and Mollify - began to cry.

They left the children with their South African neighbour and they fled.

Ms Mahlatini said: "We are scared and we don't know where to go."

The displaced people rely on food handouts supplied by the local community

It was getting dark as Ms Mahlatini told me this numbing tale whilst queuing for some soup and bread prepared by sympathetic locals in Chartsworth.

Elsewhere on the football field, some of the displaced are huddled around small fires to keep warm. The marquees where they sleep have been supplied by the local authorities.

The camp houses at least 1,500 people who lost everything when their properties were ransacked; they are left with what they could carry on their backs.

Properties and businesses have been looted in this latest outbreak of violence

This part of the country is particularly beautiful with green sugar cane-covered hills.

But when so many stories of pain are repeated again and again, somehow it diminishes the beauty of the Zulu kingdom.

'It is criminal'

It is believed that this latest round of xenophobic attacks comes in the wake of alleged comments by Zulu King Goodwill Zwelithini telling migrants to go home - although he says he was mistranslated.

He blamed the media for deliberately distorting his speech in order to sell newspapers.

President Jacob Zuma has condemned the violence and has established a team of ministers to put an end to it.

The president, like many anti-apartheid activists, was hosted by other African countries while in exile.

And there is some irony that that solidarity is not working the other way.

Dennis John, a local pastor and camp volunteer, explained why he was helping out: "It is sad because we are Africans.

"We are supposed to take care of each other. It is criminal the way we treat our own."

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