Finally! We have brand new cast promotional photos for The Vampire Diaries Season 2. Photos are courtesy of the CW via Vampire Diaries Web, Nina Dobrev Network and the Michale Trevino photo is courtesy of Buddy TV. Hopefully, we will have an HQ version of that one soon! Here are a few, and you can view the rest after the jump!

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Here is a beautiful Savvy Magazine spread featuring Candice Accola in their September 2010 issue. Thank you to Candice Accola Web for posting the scans. According to Savvy Magazine’s Facebook, you may obtain a copy of the magazine at your local Target, Barnes & Noble, Walgreens, and Borders.  Also, a digital version of the issue is available online for free.

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Be sure and set your DVR’s this Sunday July 18th, 9/8c. Candice Accola will be guest starring on the next episode of Drop Dead Diva! She will portray one of the girls in a fictitious pop duo called Confetti that Jane and Grayson will be defending. The ladies have both been accused of murder. Check out this really cool music video that was put together for the episode and the song “Begin Again”, episode of the same title. The song is also part of the ‘Drop Dead Diva’ soundtrack, which has been on the Top Ten TV Soundtrack list on Amazon, and is also available on iTunes.

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Ted Casablanca caught up with Candice Accola and Steven R. McQueen, and they dished out some scoop on the cast including who’s causing trouble on set! Here’s a couple and check the rest over at E!Online!

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.”

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Gabrielle of The Globall Townhall caught up with Candice Accola recently. Check out this brief Q &A. Candice talks about her life philosophies and offers advice on building a successful career. She also talks about her involvement with Turn the Corner, an foundation that supports the awareness and education of Lyme Disease.

Gabrielle Reilly:  What is one of your favorite life philosophies that may inspire our readers?

Candice Accola: No doesn’t mean never, it just means not yet. Visualize what you want to accomplish and work like hell to get it.

Gabrielle Reilly:  What advice can you offer for building such a successful career?

Candice Accola: Know what you want. Don’t compare your accomplishments or failures to your competition and know that careers are built differently for everyone.

Gabrielle Reilly:  You have become very passionate about Turn the Corner Foundation.  Can you tell us about that?

Candice Accola: A very dear childhood friend got very sick and after years of frustration and misdiagnosis, she found out she had Lyme disease. I’m embarrassed to say I’d never heard of Lyme and after hearing it’s conceived from a tick bite I thought it’d be an easy treatment process. Boy was I wrong! When I think of all the components of this complex disease, the treatments and the political separation within the medical community revolving around Lyme, I am still shocked.

I decided that I had to help. I couldn’t sit idly by and hear any more gut wrenching stories of individuals, couples and families who’d been misdiagnosed and thus treated for the wrong disease in the same fashion my friend and her family were misled.
My friend’s mother introduced me to Turn the Corner. I was so impressed with their documentary, Under Our Skin and their Physicians Training Program that I knew I had found a great organization to lend my voice to. It’s a new partnership, but I could not be more excited to be working with them in order to increase awareness and continue my own education on Lyme.
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Check out this awesome interview with Candice Accola by LIOL Magazine. She talks about Lymenaide and TVD! LIOL = Love in other languages – It’s a magazine about people changing the world, and what you can do to help. As well as fashion, Music and events.

Nina Dobrev is currently on the cover of Jezebel Magazine’s June 2010 issue. Here’s a couple of excerpts and you can read the rest of the interview on their site. Also, Candice Accola participated in a celebrity questionnaire in the magazine, thanks to Katie Romero Photography for posting and Vampire Diaries Source for the heads up!

Photo Credit: John Russo

EZ: How did you get the role on “The Vampire Diaries”?ND: When I finished “Degrassi,” I decided to fly down for pilot season in L.A., but I didn’t have high expectations. “The Vampire Diaries” was one of the first auditions I went on, and I loved the script. But I was sick for my first audition and they weren’t really sure about me, then I got a movie that was being shot in Canada, so I went home. [“The Vampire Diaries” casting directors] asked me to put myself on tape and they liked what I did, so they flew me back down. It was a long process, and I really had to fight for the role because there were so many girls who wanted to play Elena. I was very lucky, and I still feel like I have the coolest character–or characters–on TV.

JEZ: Which do you enjoy more, being fought over by two hunky vampires or getting to play two different roles?

ND: I love getting to play two roles, because one is such a sweet, nice girl and the other is this crazy, conniving, narcissistic vampire killer. That’s an opportunity that rarely happens on one show. I’ve played nice girls before–Mia Jones of “Degrassi” was a nice girl–but Katherine has an edge to her that I haven’t had a chance to play before, so it’s a challenge that keeps things fresh and exciting.

Here’s the questionnaire from Candice! Click for larger view!

Candice Accola and Steven McQueen stopped by KTLA morning news yesterday morning. Adorable video, they talk about the vampire biting process and what it feels like.

Malese Jow has been gracious enough to share photos from her Facebook with all of us on Twitter! I wanted to share these with those that may not be on Twitter or know that Malese is on Facebook. Here’s a great pic with Malese, Steven McQueen and Candice Accola, you can view the rest here. Be sure and join her Facebook, and she is also on Myspace as well.

Photo Credit: Patrick Rogers

Check out these adorable photos from the Young Hollywood Awards Party courtesy of The Digital Photobooth, you can view the rest at the link provided. I’ve just included a fiew of my favs. Great pics featuring Nina Dobrev, Candice Accola, Sara Canning, Michael Trevino, Matt Davis, Steven R. McQueen and Zach Roerig.

Yesterday I received a notification in my inbox. Someone had replied to my comment that I made on Candice Accola’s blog post on Lymenaide. A blog dedicated to the awareness of Lyme Disease and a platform for those affected with it to gather, support and lend their voices to the awareness of this disease. It was from Teri, Candice’s best friend that she was speaking of in her blog post and PSA. She wanted to thank me for my words and posting the banner on my blog. I’ll just say that it made my day and brought tears to my eyes. Not tears of sadness, but tears of joy, because it made me feel good to know I was doing something to help and support awareness of a disease like this. A disease that is very controversial and many go years and years living with it, not knowing they have it, or knowing they do and no one believing them. Which is why it is so important to raise awareness. And also to raise awareness on how it can be prevented. The following PSAs from some of our Vampire Diaries cast explain it for us. Check them out. New one from Candice Accola, Michael Trevino, Kayla Ewell and guest star Spencer Locke (Amber Bradley, “Miss Mystic Falls”). These PSAs are just one way for us to raise awareness. May is Lyme Disease Awareness month, go to Lymenaide to find out how you can help “Paint May Lyme Green”.

Candice Accola

Michael Trevino

Kayla Ewell

Spencer Locke

MTV News talks to the cast of The Vampire Diaries. Nina says she had a lot of fun “being crazy and doing bad things”. Umm yeah….bad things would be an understatement!! Check out the video!