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’s a VERY in depth interview with Michael Trevino from the TV Fanatic. He discusses the transformations his character will go through this season, how he deals with his father’s death, and most importantly his discovery of the so-called “Lockwood Curse”.

Throughout season one, Tyler was a hot-tempered human. How excited are you to be a supernatural character?
There’s going to be more storylines, and it’ll show a different side of Tyler. Like you said, all of season one it showed how hot-headed he was, snapping at everybody. Not only that, but for me to be get into the supernatural element and find out the lineage of these werewolves and such, it’s gonna be, not a hard task, but something to look forward to. There wasn’t much of Tyler going on in season one, so they want to throw all of these projects at me now for the new season. I’m ready for it!

Do you have to go though any makeup or prosthetics for the transformation?
I haven’t. All I’ve done so far is some green screen work. We might actually be doing some CGI, so we’re testing some things out right. No word yet on actually prosthetics on my face.

Imagine the shock of seeing yourself.
For me, just the season one finale with the changing of the eye, that alone was a shock for me because I wasn’t able to see it before. So I saw it with the fans, and with everyone else watching the finale. That was exiting. Now I’m even more excited to see how they do the transformation. I think they’re still trying to figure that out.

Is there going to be a lot of self-discovery for Tyler?
Yes there is. My uncle, Mason Lockwood, is coming into town. He has a big part in dealing with that. He has some information and secrets that he can share with me and his own personality. He’s got this curse, too, the Lockwood curse, so he feeds Tyler bits and pieces of information here and there.

How is his relationship with his uncle?
They’re not really close because Mason is the black sheep of the family. He was never really in Mystic Falls. He was there for a bit and then just vanished. With him coming back because of the death of my father and his brother, it’s strange. They’re not close, but he doesn’t have his father anymore, and he needs an older male companion. Mason is going to be there for him, and help develop my character.

What else can we look forward to this season?
We’re filming episode three right now, and I can tell you that there is a lot of Lockwood going around. We’re seeing the day-to-day of Tyler, and a lot of scenes take place in my house now. That didn’t happen in season one. I don’t think we got to know Tyler as whole, just an angry, bully of a kid in season one. Now, we’ll be able to see Tyler when he’s calm and not trying to pick a fight with somebody. Episode three is a big episode. There’s something really important that Tyler realizes and there’s a big revelation for Tyler.

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Thanks to MTV Hollywood Crush for these awesome and absolutely hilarious videos of the cast of The Vampire Diaries at Comic-Con. They all stopped by the MTV Tower to chat about what we can expect from next season. Lots of laughs had, and spoilers revealed. So check them out! Also, be sure and check out MTV’s Vampire Diaries at Comic-Con Photo Album!

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Awesome interview with Michael Trevino via Clevver TV. He talks about what’s in store for his character on The Vampire Diaries, wolves and possible love interest for Tyler. We are totally Team Tonnie!! Check it out!

Thanks to Siaan with Rogue Events for giving us the heads up on this great news! Michael Trevino has now been confirmed for the Insurgence Bloodlines event, a convention for The Vampire Diaries and Smallville fans in the UK. The event will take place September 10 – 12, 2010 at the Thistle Hotel in London Heathrow. Paul Wesley was previously confirmed for the event, along with Smallville’s Michael Rosenbaum. Here are the details of the event and the info on Michael.

We are pleased to announce that we are holding a convention for fans of The Vampire Diaries and Smallville under the name INSURGENCE. It takes place on the weekend of 10th – 12th September 2010 and we are holding the convention at the fantastic Thistle Hotel in London Heathrow.

Please note all guests appear subject to professional work commitments and as such please remember you are booking for the Insurgence Convention and not one or more guest, therefore as per our Terms and Conditions refunds will not be given if a guest pulls out.

Please welcome Michael Trevino as our 3rd special guest. Since the fall of 2009, Michael has appeared as Tyler Lockwood in the highly successful CW series, The Vampire Diaries, based on the original books by L. J. Smith.Michael Trevino first gained recognition in his early twenties, for his role in the Disney
Channel telemovie Cow Belles and has guest starred in CSI, 90210, The Riches and Bones.

Here are the winners of the Hub Productions Video contest! Each video was played before each guest came on stage for their individual Q&A with the fans. Congrats to all the winners Marla, Tara, Stacey and Jacqui! Each won a wonderful prize package courtesy of Vampire-Diaries.net. Still waiting to find out what other videos were shown at the event, supposedly the top 5 videos for each guest were shown, and as soon as we have that information we will post it. Also, more pictures and videos and stories to come!

Marla’s Intro for Nina

As you all know, the Vampire Diaries Cast, Ian Somerhalder, Nina Dobrev, Paul Wesley and Michael Trevino all flew out to Australia this past week to represent The Vampire Diaries at the Hub Productions Vampire Diaries Fan Event in Sydney and then in Melbourne. We covered the whole event via Twitter. And there are so many tweets and pics out there, too many to post! But I’ve been retweeting on Twitter what I find, so if you aren’t following us, you need to now at @tvdfansonline.

Here are a few pics courtesy of Portrait Magazine at the Sydney event. And speaking of them, you need to head on over to their site, they have a poll for Top 10 TV BFF, and you need to vote for Elena/Bonnie or Bonnie/Caroline. Also, they have a poll in their sidebar for who should be on their August cover, and Ian, Nina and Paul are all listed, so go vote for one of them! Ian is winning at the moment!

The Hub Productions has added Michael Trevino as their 4th guest at The Vampire Diaries Fan Event in Sydney, July 3rd and Melbourne July 4th. He will now be joining Paul Wesley, Nina Dobrev and Ian Somerhalder. So happy for him!

Exciting news for all the Vampire Diaries fans out there! We have finally completed our lineup for next months event by adding Michael Trevino, Mystic Falls’ very own Tyler Lockwood!
http://www.thehubproductions.com/events/vampire-diaries/guests
Michael’s autographs and photographs can all be purchased on the day at the event.

For all those who have been entering our intro vid competition, this means you can now start making your Michael/Tyler vids! Kudos to all those who have been entering by the way, it’s great to see that there are so many talented and creative fans out there! Keep ‘em coming!
http://www.thehubproductions.com/events/vampire-diaries/competition

Head on over to Hub Productions for the rest of the details.

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!

I want to thank my sweet friend Sue from The Vampire Diaries.net for the heads on this awesome video from Hollywire. They talk to the adorable guys from The Vampire Diaries during the Young Hollywood Awards.