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Watch Vampire Diaries Star Kat Graham Cover Janet Jackson!

PopSugarTV — Fri, 11 Mar 2011 12:16:58 PST

Vampire Diaries star Kat Graham recently released "Love Will Never Do Without an Escapade," in tribute to Janet Jackson. The mash-up fuses Janet's "Love Will Never Do (Without You)" and "Escapade."

Video: Ian Somerhalder Says "Sex" Sets The Vampire Diaries and Twilight Apart

PopSugar — Tue, 08 Mar 2011 12:39:18 PST

The Vampire Diaries' star Ian Somerhalder knows exactly what makes his TV show different from the Twilight saga: sex. The star was in NYC yesterday to attend Cosmopolitan's Fun Fearless Male bash along with Russell Brand, Mila Kunis, and Gossip Girl's Penn Badgley. Take a look!

GQ Dresses Up Vampire Diaries and Community Guys For a Silly Shoot

Lauren Turner — Tue, 22 Feb 2011 10:47:00 PST

Some of TV's hottest young faces slipped on well tailored looks for a special GQ shoot. Vampire Diaries' Michael Trevino, Steven R. McQueen, and Zach Roerig got serious in looks from T by Alexander Wang while Community's Donald Glover, Joel McHale, Danny Pudi, Chevy Chase, and Ken Jeong dressed up in Gant by Michael Bastian for their silly pose. Guys from Mad Men and Friday Night Lights also participated in the fun, which you can see more of on GQ's website. The magazine celebrated the best new menswear designers in America with a party during NYFW that brought out Jessica Alba, Kanye West, and another star of the small screen, Aziz Ansari, though the mag is currently featuring a sexy shirtless movie man on its March cover.

The Good, the Bad, and the Girl We All Want to Be

Sponsor — Tue, 31 Aug 2010 05:45:00 PDT

It's the all-American love story, two vampire brothers - one good (Stefan: love him), one evil (Damon: love to hate him) - at war for the beautiful Elena's soul (luckiest girl ever) and for the souls of her friends, family, and all the residents of Mystic Falls, VA. Didn't catch every fang-watering episode of The Vampire Diaries? Well, a good witch must be looking out for you . . .

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Exclusive: Vampire Diaries Costars Spotted Making Out!

Molly — Thu, 01 Jul 2010 13:30:00 PDT

The CW's new hit series The Vampire Diaries had its share of sexy scenes in its first season, and the steamy moments didn't stop with the finale! Candice Accola and Steven R. McQueen were spotted kissing at the Chi Chi Club on Catalina Island, CA, last week. The two looked like they couldn't keep their hands off each other in these exclusive photos from the night. Candice also took the mic to sing some karaoke at the bar El Galleon - her song choice? "Take Another Little Piece Of My Heart" by Dusty Springfield - between their hands-on liplocks. While we'll have to wait until Sept. 9 to find out what happens with Steven's character's cliffhanger, the cast is bringing the heat already. These two may not play famous vampires, but they seem to be happy experts at the face and neck sucking.

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Vampires, Cougars, and Glee Kids Unite at the Monte Carlo TV Festival

PopSugar — Fri, 11 Jun 2010 16:00:00 PDT

Nina Dobrev joined her handsome Vampire Diaries costars Ian Somerhalder and Paul Wesley last night at the closing ceremony for the Monte Carlo Television Festival. Since arriving in France, the trio have been busy promoting their series and addressing the ways in which their show is connected to Twilight and True Blood. Jane Lynch, Kevin McHale, and Jenna Ushkowitz from Glee also hit the red carpet along with Cougar Town's Busy Philipps and The Mentalist's Simon Baker. Jenna and Kevin left Jane at their hotel this morning, though, when they hit the beach for a rather cozy-looking swim. Simon had a similar idea, bringing his family along for a day of soaking up the sun in the South of France.

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Images include: Ian Somerhalder, Simon Baker, Busy Philipps, Jessica Szohr, Jane Lynch, Paul Wesley, Nina Dobrev, Jenna Ushkowitz, Kevin McHale, Michael Weatherly, Cote de Pablo, Rebecca Rigg

Vampire Diaries Talks True Blood and Twilight in Monte Carlo

Molly — Thu, 10 Jun 2010 04:00:00 PDT

The trio from The Vampire Diaries, Ian Somerhalder, Nina Dobrev, and Paul Wesley, attended events at the Monte Carlo TV Festival on Tuesday and Wednesday. First came a photo call where Ian donned a hat and Nina a headband before yesterday's red carpet. Their European adventure started with a fan meet and greet in London. In a recent overseas interview, Nina addressed some of the other famous bloodsucker entertainment - namely Twilight and True Blood. She said, "I'm very content with not being nude on national television - I enjoy True Blood myself and I watch the show but I'm happy that bra and underwear is as stripped down as I can get for the show. . . I don't think that we're necessarily competitors. . .We're all very supportive of each other. I have friends in all three of the shows that are vampire related, so I'm very happy for all of our successes." The Vampire Diaries group just booked another promotional gig during their Summer break with a scheduled appearance at Comic-Con.

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The Vampire Diaries "Children of the Damned": The Good, The Bad and The Bloody

BuzzSugar — Fri, 05 Feb 2010 05:30:00 PST

We might have been prepared for The Vampire Diaries flashback episode "Children of the Damned" with this sneak peek a while back, but watching this week's episode filled in a lot of blanks. I love the jump from the modern-day mystery to the 1800s ancestral stories, but even more, I love how layered the story is.

I'm ready to talk about everything that went down, so let's tackle the good, the bad, and the bloody when you

The Good

Katherine is so bad, she's great. Nina Dobrev said she has a lot of fun getting to play Katherine and it's obvious why - she gets to step out of Elena's goody two shoes and be pure, sexy evil. I enjoy seeing her as Katherine too, especially when she's all up on Damon - it's like an antidote to all that sexual tension between Elena and Damon. Speaking of, isn't it great to see Damon as a meek human, so unsure of himself and a little frightened?
Way to interweave a new character into the show, and have her seamlessly be part of the action from the beginning. One of the big surprises is that vampire Anna is Pearl's daughter from the 1800s. Damon recognizes her immediately, tracking her to her hotel room and discovering that she has the journal with the whereabouts of the Grim-whatever (we'll just call it Emily's spellbook). She tells him she's been watching everything go down from afar since the comet appeared. Another reveal this episode? She's the one who turned Logan.
Loved the guest stars this episode! Kelly Hu's Pearl gives us another vampire of the many trapped in the tomb, and James Remar is perfect as Giuseppe Salvatore, Stefan and Damon's father. I hope we see him again - and we know we'll see Pearl soon enough.
Lots of Damon/Elena interactions this week, but it was more than just combative flirting. She showed him compassion, telling Stefan she thinks everything he's done, he's done for love. In one of my favorite scenes, he gets close to ask if he could trust Stefan and assures her he's not compelling her. When he finds Elena and Stefan at Giuseppe's exhumed grave and sees that she was lying, he seems truly disappointed.
Damon is at family night now? Can I get an invite? He gives Jeremy quality advice: "Hot trumps weird."
That confrontation between Stefan and Alaric is pretty intense. Alaric reveals he knows that Stefan and Damon are vampires, and that Damon killed Isobel. Rad tidbit: Isobel was a parapsychologist studying paranormal activity. And finally, Alaric reveals that Isobel was killed but her body . . . dun dun dun . . . was never found. Is she a vampire somewhere?

The Bad

There's a timeline question that bothered me a lot: Stefan and Damon both seemed to still be human at the time Katherine is carted off to the church to be sealed in. We know that she is the one who turned both brothers, so when did she do it? Stefan had ingested vervain, exposing Katherine, and Jonathan Gilbert's compass didn't point to Stefan or Damon. Is this a goof or did I miss something?

The Bloody

Katherine demanding a bloody make out from Damon was a little much for me. Wipe your face, honey.
How creepy are those Hannibal Lecter masks the old townspeople slap on Katherine and Pearl?
Bonnie sees Ben's veiny vampire face when their date goes sour. Surprise - their kiss reveals that he's not human. He senses she knows and attacks her, taking her somewhere. She's not the only abductee; where has Anna taken Elena?

I can't wait to hear what you thought of this episode, as well as your various theories. Do you think Isobel is a vampire, waiting to surface? Could she be some other kind of being, descended from vampires? Chat with me below and, if you're a big fan of the show, join the Hooked on Vampire Diaries group in the Buzz Community to chat more!

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The Vampire Diaries "Unpleasantville": The Good, The Bad and The Bloody

BuzzSugar — Fri, 29 Jan 2010 06:30:00 PST

The Vampire Diaries hit us with its second episode since it came back from Winter hiatus, and I'm just as impressed with "Unpleasantville" as I was with last week's "Bloodlines."

We had already had a peek at the '50s-themed dance that the ep revolves around, but the real excitement happens in the cafeteria, the Gilbert household, and out on the streets of Mystic Falls.

I'm champing at the bit to talk about this week's episodes and all the gory details, so to break it down (spoilers ahead!), just

The Good

My spine tingles each time someone gets invited in, and the pizza guy - AKA hooded vampire creep Elena hit with her car - finds a new creative way to get inside the Gilbert house. I'm glad that Noah wasn't a one-off villain either; he's just the tip off that there's a new vampire gang in town, and they're not as sweet as Stefan. Which leads me to . . .
Anna's a vampire! And hot bartender/former football star Ben (Sean Faris) is too! I was kind of expecting Ben to be somehow shady, but I'd just thought Anna was creepy, maybe annoyingly into Jeremy, but I so did not suspect that she was also a vampire. Like Damon, she has a plan to get into the tomb where Katherine is as well - but what's her motivation? The race is on for the coveted journal of Jonathan Gilbert, which is now in the hands of Alaric Saltzman.
Elena's adoption plot thickens, and the new detail's a doozy: her birth mother's name is Isobel - which is also the name of Alaric's late wife. I figured it out when Jenna first reveals her name to Elena (how many Isobels can one show have?), but it's Jenna herself who connects the dots when Alaric mentions his wife's name while asking Jenna out on a date. That's going to make for some awkward dinner convo.
So Matt and Caroline's story doesn't add much to the overall interwoven mystery of the show, but I admit it, I like them now. Plus, their cute, blossoming relationship is a welcome diversion from all that tomb talk.
Um, I watched that sweet '50s dance move that Stefan busted on Elena at the dance at least three times.

The Bad

I'm kind of annoyed with Stefan and his handling of the whole Damon/Katherine/tomb situation. What's the point of lying to Damon about helping? Either help or don't help - we all know Damon's getting into that tomb. I just hate how Stefan acts so self-righteous about everything.

The Bloody

I was so psyched when Elena gets all Buffy on Noah in the cafeteria - well, almost. She still wields that makeshift wooden stake like a champ, breaking a broom handle over her knee. At least she did get in some good pencil stabs. Not terribly effective, but a defense move just the same. I somehow doubt that this is the last time we'll see her playing slayer.
Vampire torture by broom handle! Ouch. Stefan and Damon get all the details out of Noah they could by jabbing him, and learn what's needed to open the tomb: a belonging of Emily's, the whereabouts of which is in Jonathan Gilbert's journal.

This is another fantastic, layered episode - as usual, with as many questions that were answered, we got as many new questions that we hope to see answered next week. Among them: when will Damon and Alaric face off? Who will get to Jonathan Gilbert's journal first? Is Jenna going to look into Isobel being Elena's mother? And speaking of Isobel, since she's likely related to Katherine's family, I'm doubting that Damon's attack on her was random. Deconstruct the episode below, and you can always join the Hooked on Vampire Diaries group in the Buzz Community to chat about the show further!

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The Vampire Diaries "Bloodlines": The Good, the Bad, and the Bloody

BuzzSugar — Fri, 22 Jan 2010 05:30:51 PST

The wait is over! The Vampire Diaries returned this week, and even though I gave you not one but two sneak peeks of the brand-new episodes, it's so much more satisfying to be able to sit down with an episode.

The story picks up where its mid-season cliffhanger left off - with Elena injured in a car crash and a creepy creature coming for her. But there were also amazing storylines picked up for not just Elena, but Bonnie, Jeremy, and Alaric as well, so to start talking about this week's episode, spoilers and all, just

The Good

Finally, we got that Stefan and Elena alone time that Nina Dobrev mentioned at the TCA. It all starts when we revisit Elena's crash site, and the hoodie-wearing monster (which we now know is a vampire) doesn't get Elena, but Damon does, rescuing her from the car. I loved the gentleness with which he talked her out, even if he does kidnap her to Georgia for kicks immediately afterward. Baby steps. The whole interlude in Georgia is actually enjoyable, since we meet Bree, Damon's wronged bartender ex, and Elena lets loose and gets drunk with Damon. Nice to see her being less intense, less encumbered.
Poor Bonnie finds herself de-witched - she needs to "clear out" whatever is frightening her, so she goes to the tomb. And falls in. She falls into a tomb, you guys. Well, tomb adjacent, anyway. And there's a pentagram on the door, which gave me the heebie-jeebies like you wouldn't believe. It's such an effective and chilling scene too - you could hear, with Bonnie, the wails of the vampire souls trapped inside. Just the sentence Stefan says, "They're starved to the point of dessication," gives me the shivers all over again.
Hey, who's the nice-looking young man? It's Jeremy! Elena's formerly hoodlum little bro has found reasons to live besides sex and drugs, and it turns out he's both cute and very smart. He continues his research about the Gilbert family and finds a new love interest (Anna) and a lead . . . about vampires in Mystic Falls.
I appreciate that the show didn't just drop Lexi and Damon's murder of her; apparently, her friend Bree and boyfriend didn't forget it either. Bree sicks Lexi's still-despondent love on Damon, who nearly kills him, if not for Elena's desperate appeal.

The Bad

And the most shocking plot twist I wasn't expecting: Elena's adopted! It explains how she could be a Gilbert while Katherine was a Pierce, which brings me to the only thing that bothered me this episode. Why do Stefan and Elena assume that she has to be a direct descendant of Katherine? As in directly from Katherine's womb? Didn't she have family, siblings that could have either produced Elena generations later, or have married Gilberts at some point? Anyway, now that we know Elena is adopted, I'm assuming these ideas will occur to the teen detectives, but still. And frankly, isn't it weirder that Elena and Katherine look exactly alike, rather than just weird that they don't share the same last name when there's a resemblance?

The Bloody

I know Bree betrayed him and all, but did Damon really have to tear out her heart? With her blood pumping full of vervain, I get why he didn't bite her, but listen closely when I say: bleh, yucky, grody gross. He could have snapped her neck or something else far less icky.
Oh, Damon, come on, guy! He's in trouble for killing two men's lady loves in this episode alone; first Lexi, and now Isobel, Alaric's wife (and by the by, it seems Alaric is a vampire hunter, but not also a vampire himself, as evidenced by losing his ring but still being in the sun). In one glance we see Alaric realize two things: that Damon is a vampire, and the same one that fed on Isobel. He is very upset.

So, what did you think? Wasn't it nice that we ended an episode without Stefan and Elena breaking up? And once again, for as many little threads that were sewn up, there were as many brand-new threads of the story that I can't wait to explore. How do you think Katherine and Elena are related? Who is the hooded monster? Chat with me below, and to show your ultimate fandom, join the Hooked on Vampire Diaries group in the Buzz Community!

Photos courtesy of The CW