The Vampire Diary

5. Vampire Diaries: Vampires are always sexy, and the CW has a proven track record of scooping up the hottest young actors in town to fill their casts. Ian Somerhalder and Nina Dobrev are two of the most exotic people we’ve ever seen on TV, and we love the fight between the brothers over one girl. Makes us realize…vampires are just like us!

See who else made it to Top 10 over at Hollyscoop.

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Just look at the photo above. Don’t they deserve first place?

Season 2 premiere is upon us and The CW updated the show description and the biographies of the actors as well as the ones of its executive producers. Check them out by clicking on the image below or heading on over to Spoiler TV.

Cleaning up litter on your local highway. Running errands for your elderly shut-in neighbor. Volunteering at the downtown food bank. These are all causes worthy of your valuable time and energy. Unfortunately, they’ll have to wait until next week. Because right now, it is your all-consuming duty to get out the vote in the final round of EW.com’s Sexy Beast single-elimination bracket tournament! Yes, folks, a battle of the beautiful that began almost a month ago with 64 entrants — vampires and werewolves, mutants and machines, aliens and other creatures (even Ms. Pac-Man!) — has been whittled down to just two combatants: The Vampire Diaries‘ Damon Salvatore and Twilight‘s Edward Cullen. So stop what you’re doing, think deeply about the most important question you’ll ask yourself all day (“Who’s hotter?”) and then click through past the jump to vote for your favorite. Plus, you can click here to see the entire 64-player bracket and how it played out (then click again on the image for a zoomed-in view). Polls are open for 72 hours only, so support your candidate in battle; only one can be named the ultimate Sexy Beast! [Related: To get a heads-up when the polls close and our Sexy Beast champ is crowned, follow me on Twitter @EWMichaelSlezak!]

Get your votes in over at PopWrap.

An article + some new photos from Teen Choice Awards over at Celebrity Gossip.


X17 Online has a lot of pics as well, check them out here. Thanks to @tvdfan_nl for the heads up!

The Vampire Diaries is showing up frequently among awards nominees and winners lately. Whether it is the TV.com NOW Awards or the Teen Choice Awards, the show is appearing in category after category. That’s definitely a good sign for a show just beginning to film their sophomore season.

The TV.com NOW Awards added three wins to the shows list. Ian Somerhalder won Best New Bad Guy for his portrayal of Damon. Paul Wesley was not left out, winning the title of Sexiest Vampire. The show overall was recognized with the Editors Choice award for Best Show. You can see video of Somerhalder, Wesley and Kevin Williamson being informed of their wins at Comic Con here.

The CW Sourcies, which has in the past been dominated by Supernatural and One Tree Hill, seemed to be a gift created for the series. These awards give the CW fans a chance to vote for their favorites in a different category each week. Vampire Diaries won 8 of the 10 categories. Their wins included Best Kiss, Best Fight, Hottest Moment, Best Villain, Biggest Surprise, Best Recurring Character, Favorite Bad Bay and Biggest Cliffhanger. Cliffhangers is something thatVampire Diaries certainly specializes in.

E! Online’s annual Tater Top Awards, also fan-voted, were riddled with Vampire Diaries. The show’s wins included Best Shocker, Best Baddie, Best B*tch and Best New Show. Ian Somerhalder won for Male Breakout Star and Nina Dobrev for Female Breakout Star. It’s also worth mentioning that while it didn’t win, the show did come in second in votes for Best Line in a Drama. Of course, that line was delivered by Damon. “I do believe in killing the messenger. You know why? Because it sends a message.”

With these wins and nine nominations in the Teen Choice Awards, it’s clear that Vampire Diaries is a fan favorite. Congratulations are in order for the whole cast and crew and good luck with season two.

During Comic-Con weekend in San Diego, I was treated to an exclusive sit-down interview with Vampire Diaries executive producers Kevin Williamson and Julie Plec to discuss some of the Season 2 secrets they’re plotting.

TV Guide Magazine: Your first season included so many great theme episodes — like the bloody Halloween party and the Miss Mystic Falls pageant. Can we expect more of these events?
Williamson: The CW is very event-oriented, but I was initially very resistant of it. Last season was all built around Founder’s Day. And this year we’re considering three events as our big lead-up to the season finale.
Plec: We do have a carnival in our second episode, and in the third episode, Elena and Damon and Alaric travel together to Duke University, where Isobel, Alaric’s wife and Elena’s birth mother, met and lived together. She studied the paranormal and was an expert in the anthropology department which is how she disguised her vampire research. She had become obsessed with Mystic Falls and dug deep into the history of the town. So on their trip, they dig into her dusty files to see what she may have known that they don’t know.

TV Guide Magazine: What about another Halloween episode?
Williamson: We’re not looking at the show as if a whole year has passed, but we will have an episode timed to Halloween, which will be a huge masquerade ball that we’re now thinking of as a possible two-parter. S–t will hit the fan.

TV Guide Magazine: There will be one big murder?
Plec: Yes. At least.
Williamson: It’s getting harder and harder to look at our wall of death where we have photos of people like Anna (Malese Jow) and Bonnie’s grandmother (Jasmine Guy).
Plec: And Lexi (Arielle Kebbel)…

TV Guide Magazine: I was quite upset about Bonnie losing her Gran. Will we meet Bonnie’s parents?
Plec: People ask, ‘Why doesn’t Bonnie have parents?’ Well, Bonnie does have parents. She lives with her father, who we have not met on camera, but she does not have a relationship with her mother. These are characters we may possibly explore this year. Bonnie comes from a long line of Bennett witches and mom is out there somewhere…
Williamson: True Blood actually did with LaFayette’s mother (revealing her in a mental institution) what we wanted to do with Bonnie’s mother, even though we came up with that idea a year ago.
Plec: That happens all the time.
Williamson: Sometimes we’ll write dialogue and Nina Dobrev (Elena) will say, ‘You do realize that’s exactly what was said in Twilight, right?’ And I’ll tell her, ‘No, I had no idea.’ Vampire stories have been told for centuries so stories are going to overlap. I just don’t want to do it in the same way or too close to when the others do it.

TV Guide Magazine: Speaking of which, both Twilight and True Blood have plunged heavily into werewolf territory, which you are about to do in your new season.
Plec: We actually talked about this a lot, because we didn’t want to be the third to bring something to the table. But it’s in the Vampire Diaries books and the character of Tyler Lockwood could not and should not exist without this werewolf arc. We started laying the groundwork for this story all last season, so to negate that genre element would have been to negate the entire Tyler character.
Williamson: Every vampire story has a werewolf nearby. It’s just the way it is.

TV Guide Magazine: What will your werewolves look like?
Williamson: Wolves, and we’ll show them transform. But not right away. And I think on True Blood their werewolves transform at will, whereas Tyler is bound by the full moon. Once a month he can’t control it.

TV Guide Magazine: And now it’s looking as though True Blood is about to introduce werepanthers.
Williamson: Really? Well we’ll introduce were-armadillos!

TV Guide Magazine: One thing Elena hasn’t considered yet is her potentially having to sacrifice motherhood if she lives forever with a Salvatore vampire, because your vampires can’t conceive, can they?
Plec: No they cannot.
Williamson: One of the things we’ll see Elena deal with this year are mortality issues. She’s dating a guy who’s never going to get old and she’s never going to be able to have children.

TV Guide Magazine: There’s lots of gayness going on over at True Blood. It surprises me that there’s no suggestion of homosexuality on a Kevin Williamson show.
Williamson: I’m happy to bring a gay character in when it fits the story. Caroline’s father is gay. He has a boyfriend. We’ve already set him up as a Founding Family member.
Plec: And it’s quite possible we’ll be meeting Caroline’s dad this year. This is going to be a big season for Caroline’s relationship with her mom, the sheriff.

Sounds like some good stuff is planned. And it seems we can at least breath a sigh of relief that Caroline — last seen bleeding internally — will survive her emergency surgery. As for the other cliffhangers, we’ll all have to stay tuned until the Sept. 9 season premiere to find out if Jeremy becomes a vampire, if Uncle John survives and if Elena exposes Katherine as her scheming impostor.

Nina and Paul attended the EW/SyFy Celebration and Ian attended the Nerd Party hosted by Zachary Levi, photos have been added to the gallery so head on over and check them out!

Any scoop on The Vampire Diaries‘ new season? — Lally

MICKEY: The much-teased werewolf storyline will get under way quickly when an estranged relative breezes into Mystic Falls to act as a Mr. Miyagi type to the afflicted party.

Have we told you guys how much we love fan-voted awards yet? Because we really love fan-voted awards. Maybe we’re spoiled by the MTV Movie Awards, which are so fan-based that you guys even get to choose the nominees, but we can’t resist getting a chance to vote for our favorite shows and movies so they can get the love that they deserve.

The most recent case of fan-choice comes at us from TV.com, who just opened voting for their TV.com NOW Awards. Clearly all of our favorites got some recognition, because we bloggers here at Hollywood Crush have nothing if not the best of taste. But if you’re reading this, we’re guessing you already know that.

Faux snootiness aside, we love that so many of our favorites are getting lots of love by fans and professional websites. “True Blood,” “Glee” and “Vampire Diaries” all got plenty of recognition in the categories they deserved.

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But Sookie and Bill are up against some stiff human/vampire competition, considering Stefan and Elena are also nominees. Fortunately, the stud and awesome bad boy of that series, Damon (Ian Somerhalder), got a nomination as Best New Bad Guy, which he justly deserves.

Voting ends next Friday, so make sure you get your votes in — and let us know what you think of all the nominees!

Read the entire article over at Hollywood Crush.

They still get starstruck.

Accola's intimidated by iconic women, none more so than Diane Keaton. "I had the opportunity to meet her on the way to the pilot," she says. "She sat behind Kayla [Ewell] and I on the airplane. I was all ready to say, 'You are an inspiration to young women everywhere!' and all that came out was, 'You are, like, awesome!' Ha. That's how suave I get."

They like other vampires.

"I've been on a True Blood kick," says Accola, who also plans to see Eclipse when she and the other girls reconvene in Atlanta in July to begin filming. "Definitely by the time we get back."

Meanwhile, McQueen is a fervent Team Edward supporter.

"Vampires are just cool, you know?" he says, adding. "They just have some sort of rebel authority that's kind of cool."

They're humble.

Like many young stars today, they remember where they come from.

"I was working in an ice rink before all this," laughs McQueen. "Work became not only a gift, but therapeutic as well...the entire experience has been a blessing." Accola agrees. "It's amazing," she says. "It's just wonderful that everyone's enjoying watching it as much as we are making it."

They cause trouble on set.

"We're constantly doing pranks, most of which I can't talk about 'cause they're kind of, you know, mum's the word sort of things," says McQueen.

Accola's adds: "We don't really joke around too much because it's a lot to do in a little amount of time, but biggest troublemaker? Nina, for sure. She's the sneakiest."

They kinda, sorta, don't really, or do they, hook up.

Both kids braced the question of on-set romance with enough hesitation and nervous laughter to make us double-take.

"I'm sure by the end of all these seasons, everyone's gonna say that we've all dated each other," says Accola. When asked about Nina and Ian's rumored romance, McQueen said, "I wish I knew." When asked about Nina and himself, he said, "I wish I knew."