He hosts a radio show with TV-personality Logi Bergmann Eiðsson and with Friðrika Hjördís Geirsdóttir called Ísland vaknar (English: Iceland wakes up).
After graduation he was involved in numerous productions on stage at the National Theater of Iceland and others.
These include Romeo and Juliet, Woyzeck, Singin' in the Rain, Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf, Rent and Sound of Music.
[5][6] Rúnar has been in a relationship with gymnastic instructor Guðrún Jóna Stefánsdóttir since 2011.
He said this in a 2014 interview: "When I came put of rehab two and a half years ago I didn't feel good.
I still had my education, my talents, and most important I had a great family, friends and coworkers that stood by me.