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Apparently, October is “Give The Cast of The Perks of Being a Wallflower a Magazine Cover Month”!

The Vampire Diaries star Nina Dobrev is the cover girl for the October issue of Seventeen Magazine and the 23-year-old actress looks pretty in pink as she dishes on her red hot romance with costar Ian Somerhalder!

I didn’t want to be dating one of my costars… My goal on the show was to be professional. But sometimes you can’t help who you have a connection with, and you can only fight it for so long – which I did for a really, really long time.

Aw, can’t you just picture little Nina scribbling “N.D + I.S” in little hearts all over her Vampire Diaries scripts?  Reminds us of the days she spent longing for J.T. on Degrassi: The Next Generation!  

Much like her The Perks of Being a Wallflower costar, Emma Watson, Nina was also spotted kissing her beau at the Coachella music festival last month.  Although the couple officially came clean about the romance back in April, Nina still blushes every time she talks about giving in to the temptation of dating someone she works with.

The first time I was on the cover of Seventeen, the cover line said, ‘Nina: Why she wouldn’t date any of her costars,’… “And then cut to two years later … it’s funny that I said that.

Hilarious.

Be sure to check out Nina in The Perks of Being a Wallflower, out later this month!

The Vampire Diaries stars are red hot and Rolling Stone grabs the super sexy leads for a fun photo shoot.

Paul Wesley, Ian Somerhalder and Nina Dobrev fall, jump and stare in the hottest way possible. I mean seriously – who else but these three can fall and look absolutely amazing at the same time!

Here’s what they had to say:

Ian wants you to peep TVD: “The whole Twilight thing is about to be over. And teenage girls can’t watch True Blood with their parents — that would just get weird. So we’re getting ready to kick some major ass this season.”

Nina on the photo shoot: “We’ve been doing a photo shoot that’s unlike any that we’ve done before,” says Dobrev. “We’re testing the limits of gravity.” (Err… falling is actually adhering to the laws of gravity… I’m guessing she’s referring to how the end shots look.)

TVD is back with season 3 premiering Thursday, September 15th at 8pm ET. Their issue of Rolling Stone (with the Red Hot Chili Peppers on the cover) is on sale now.

More photos and a behind-the-scenes video are below.  Read more »

Ian Somerhalder took home a surfboard from the 2011 Teen Choice Awards held at the Gibson Amphitheatre on Sunday, August 7th in Los Angeles.

The 32 year-old star of The Vampire Diaries was a winner in the category Choice TV Actor Fantasy/SciFi.

Ian joined costars Paul Wesley and his real life girlfriend Nina Dobrev on stage to present the award for Choice Movie Actor Romantic Comedy to Ashton Kutcher.

More photos of Ian are below. Read more »

The upcoming season of The Vampire Diaries promises loads of plot twists and turns – let’s face it, it’s become known for shocking the viewer with unpredicted journeys.

One of last season’s carry-over storyline – Stefan Salvatore (Paul Wesley) reverting to his ‘blood addiction’ thanks to Klaus’ (Joseph Morgan) evil ways – has Wesley very excited to explore this side of Stefan, according to costar Nina Dobrev.

“Paul is very happy that Stefan is now going to the dark side,” Dobrev told MTV at Comic-Con.

“He’s really excited about it, and I think it’s going to be great for him. He’s a very strong actor, so it’s awesome.”

Nina drops a small hint about Damon (Ian Somerhalder) and his ability to be the hero with Stefan out of the way.

“He’s as heroic as Damon can be,” she said. “Damon will always have a rough, kind of tough side to him, so take that as you will.”

“He has redeeming qualities but he’s still damaged goods in many ways, as we all are. We’ve all got baggage.”

The Vampire Diaries returns to The CW on Thursday, September 15th.

Nina Dobrev turned up in New York City for the 2011 Tribeca Film Festival premiere of Last Night held at the BMCC theater.

The Vampire Diaries star hit the red carpet for the movie, starring Eva Mendes and Keira Knightley while in town (her rumored boyfriend/costar Ian Somerhalder, happens to also be in NYC currently … *wink* … we hear they are both at the event – no photos of him from our service yet – but they did not walk the red carpet together) Nina has some promotional duties in the Big Apple this week, including Live with Regis and Kelly on Thursday, April 28th.

The 21 year-old actress and Somerhalder, 32, are confirmed guests for the White House Correspondents dinner to be held in Washington D.C. on April 30th. Maybe they will walk the carpet together and give fans the pictures they are waiting for.

More photos of solo Dobrev are under. Read more »

Ian Somerhalder and Nina Dobrev spent Saturday afternoon together at the 2011 Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival in Indio, California.

The Vampire Diaries twosome has played it pretty shady about their off screen relationship however they spent their time on the grass with Joshua Jackson and Diane Krueger while checking out various bands at the annual music fest that is absolutely overrun with celebs and paparazzi.

There were no obvious signs of coupledom – no kissing or hand holding – and they were clearly aware of the photographers (who wouldn’t be) but it certainly appears they have taken their on screen chemistry off screen as well.

Somerhalder appeared on Live with Regis & Kelly recently and when asked told the chat show hosts his girlfriend was “The Vampire Diaries.”

Dobrev covered Teen Vogue in April and gave close to a flat out denial saying: “We expected the rumors,” she says. “Like, if I wasn’t dating Ian, I’d be dating Paul [Wesley]. A lot of people who work together end up dating, so it wouldn’t be unusual, but I’ve never dated anyone I’ve worked with.”

If the two are dating, they’ve come pretty darn close to outright lying and if they’re not, well then they’ve gotten great publicity out of it all. (There have been tweets from people who’ve seen them together on Valentine’s Day and around Atlanta where TVD is filmed and a photo of the two taken at Christmas time.)

Everyone is entitled to their privacy, and if they are dating and want to keep it to themselves, that’s fine – but why choose to answer those questions in such a way that looks duplicitous in the end?

Either way – they certainly are hot together, that’s for sure!

What do you think? Happy they are together? Angry at how they’ve addressed it? Neither?

More photos of the two are below (and yes, Ian is misidentified by the photo service as Tom Welling).  Read more »

Nina Dobrev is surrounded by flowers on the very pink February 2011 cover of Canada’s Flare magazine. The Vampire Diaries star has a sparkly L’Wren Scott dress and subdued make-up for the ‘Hello Spring’ issue.

Dobrev spills the details on her most memorable day and her best date ever:

Her most memorable day: “There have been so many, but most recently, being part of The Emmys was pretty incredible. I documented every moment from the recording of the Bruce Springsteen track “Born To Be” to the rehearsals with Jimmy Fallon, Tina Fey, and Jane Lynch (to name a few) to the on stage performance/dance we all did on Emmy night. It was so exhilarating and fun.”

The best date: “It’s a toss up between two: “[In the first], I was supposed to have a date with someone, and at the last minute I had to fly to another city for business. Not only was he extremely understanding of the whole situation, but he surprised me by flying to meet me for dinner later that night. I was shocked at how far (literally) he would go to surprise, and spend time with me. It was very romantic. [In the second], after a long, extremely exhausting, and emotionally draining day on set, I got back home to find my boyfriend in the kitchen making me dinner. He handed me a glass of wine and walked me into the living room where there was a massage table set up. He said ‘You’ve had a rough day, I have a masseuse coming to the house in a few minutes and after you’re finished with your massage dinner will be ready.’ I almost died. That is what I call romantic and thoughtful.”

Check out the behind the scenes video of Nina’s photo shoot below. Read more »