Over this past Mother’s Day weekend, Nina Dobrev and her mom, Michaela attended the Like Her, Like Me breakfast party event by Seventeen Magazine for the Got Milk? Milk Mustache Campaign. Check out their beautiful ad (also, click the photo above for details on an amazing contest!) and some behind the scenes interviews and footage from the event and shoot via Alloy Entertainment and Teen.com. You can also view some gorgeous shots from the event over at Nina Dobrev Network.

Exclusive Interview from Alloy Entertainment

Exclusive Interview from Teen.com

Check out this adorable photoshoot and interview with Paul Wesley in the latest issue of Mr. Porter’s “The Look” feature. Here’s a sneak peek (above) and excerpt from the interview. View the rest of the story (scroll down) and photos over at Mr. Porter.

Naturally, for a show with a teenage target audience, there have been mall riots, including a particularly intense signing session in Atlanta, Georgia (where the show is filmed) in 2010. “They really love my character,” Mr Wesley says of his fans, and then laughs. “It’s overwhelming. I brought my little sisters to a signing. They know me as idiot Paul, brother, moron. When they saw all these girls getting really excited that I was there they couldn’t fathom why anyone would be interested.”

And what of his plans for the future? “We have six-year contracts. I hope the show will go on for that long but it’s such a peculiar business,” he says, adding that he would eventually like to get behind the camera. “I always thought The OCwould be on for years and then it got cancelled after the fourth season. We’re all looking at other things to do in the future and searching for different roles,” he continues. For Mr Wesley this looks set to be in Hollywood: we’ll see him next as a DEA agent in the upcoming Southern hit man action-comedy The Baytown Disco opposite Mr Billy Bob Thornton.

Mystic Falls Messenger

Dearly Departed, we are gathered here today to get through this thing called Life. Electric word, life. It means forever and that’s a mighty long time. Keep your theories in your pants, because this week was fraught with OSMs (oh SHIT moments)! We’re callin ‘em like we saw ‘em, so don’t shoot The Messenger!

Editor’s note: A great big, super-duper, squishy Woobie Hug to Ruthie for enduring this season of screencapping for The Messenger. We couldn’t have done it without her! Maybe over our hiatus she’ll be tolerant enough to teach someone on our staff the tricks of the trade! The presses might roll more slowly if she does!

BACK IN THE GOOD OLE DAYS

Pink’s “So What” was number 4 on the May 2009 pop charts, and playing on Elena Gilbert’s radio alarm on the fateful morning of May 23. If the smiling, pom poms, and cheerleading uniform weren‘t enough to clue you in we were digging in the archives…

…possibly Aunt Jenna in the Gilbert kitchen did it for you?  Well, that plus a 14-year-old Jeremy locked in the Jack-n-Jill bathroom he shared with his sister, doing Lord knows what *wink*. And who was that beautiful brunette bidding Jenna and Elena a good morning? Miranda Gilbert, former adopted mom.

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Thanks to TV Fanatic for inviting VDO to participate in The Vampire Diaries Season 3 Finale Roundtable for “The Departed”.  Check out a sneak peek below, then head on over to TV Fanatic to read the rest!

Give this season a grade.
Matt: C. On a very relative scale. This remains one of the best dramas on network television, but the first two seasons set such a high bar. I found the back half especially meandering, I fear death has lost all meaning on the show and I’m sick of the love triangle.

Steve: I’m going with a B+. It might be closer to B- or B by Vampire Diaries standards, but that’s the thing … even with somewhat uneven, haphazard installments like we’ve seen lately, there’s still so much more right than wrong with the show.

Eric: B-. The season of the Originals hardly felt like it brought resolve to its chief baddy. Now when Alaric took over as Monsieur Bad Guy? Things were A material. Getting the town on his side and killing vampires? Now that was a scary threat… that was shortened to two episodes. While Dan’s man crush was allowed to run around for a season wooing my Caroline with horse pictures only to find his way into someone’s body by season end? What kind of TVD villain arc is that?

Dan: I will agree with you, Eric, that they didn’t find enough things to do with the fantastic Joseph Morgan, but I still go with an A- for the season. If I’m grading on a TVD curve, it would be down in the B range, but this is still one of my favorite shows on TV, and that is A level work in my book.

Ruthie: A-. Aside from too many spoiler-y interviews, promos and episode stills, I think this was a pretty kick-ass season. I know, I love good Vampire Diaries spoilers as much as anyone, but I really think they need to tighten it up a bit next season. Several episodes lacked the punch due to the fact that too much information was revealed.

Thanks to Chris Mollere for providing us with the song list of season 3′s finale “The Departed”.

The following are legal downloads from iTunes.

1. Pink “So What”

2. Low Vs. Diamond “Wasted”

3. Shadow Rewind “Airplane”

4. Metric “Sick Muse”

5. Sigur Ros “Dauðalogn” – Not released – Available May 29th

If you have watched last night’s episode…you know that something pretty epic happened at the very end. Something that we’ve all been waiting for…Elena’s a Vampire!!! I had a feeling that this is where they might be going and I’m very excited about it. But, were you like me, and found yourself with a lot of questions after the finale ended? Well, Julie Plec answers those burning questions and more with EW.

ENTERTAINMENT WEEKLY: How long have you known Elena would end season 3 in transition to become a vampire? JULIE PLEC: The ending had been in the works for about two years. In the first series of books, that’s what happens to her. When Kevin [Williamson] and I first came on the show, we said, “Well, it can’t happen to her the way it happens in the books,” which is on, like, page 200 of the first book. [Laughs] That felt obviously soon and rushed, and we didn’t want to make a show about a teenage girl who instantly becomes a vampire. But we always knew that her journey would take her there eventually, and we just kept riding the way of when it felt. You’ve got a girl who just sorta lost her last adult living family member when Aunt Jenna died last year, so when we started this season, what we really wanted to do was begin this relationship with Alaric as her guardian and mentor, and then tear that away from her at the end leaving her and her brother with nobody. It felt like now was the time when you’re left with no grownup, no adult supervision, no parent, no guardian, for Elena to experience the next evolution of her journey. All the stuff that we did with having her get stronger over the course of the year training and getting in touch with her physical self, and all the grief and all the emotion that she went through, and all the compassion that she has for everybody, will all play into next year and what kind of person and vampire she will actually be– if she should so choose to see the transition through.

Read the rest of the interview at EW.

Great interview from Clevver TV with Claire Holt. She chats about Rebekah bringing change to the future of the show and who should Elena choose?

So many interviews roamin around out there from Kat Graham, Michael Trevino and Nina Dobrev! So we are just going to post a link to each one! Much easier that way don’t you agree? All these interviews just feed the nerves and anxiety we are feeling leading up until tonight! I barely got any sleep last night…why does this show do this to me??? Anyway, as always, tread with caution. Spoilers ahead!

Kat Graham on the season finale and Bonnie’s possible dark side.

Entertainment Weekly
TV.com
Hollywood Life
Give Me My Remote (Video)

Michael Trevino on Tyler and Caroline and the “Wow” Finale!

MTV Hollywood Crush
TV Line
E!Online
The Insider

Nina Dobrev on choosing between the boys and fan’s reactions!

Entertainment Weekly
Zap2It
E!Online