Monday’s best bets for celeb spotting. Door crash at your own risk.

TIFF’s sparkliest bash, at least by venue choice, is the Mother and Child pre-screening cocktailer at the Yonge and Bloor Swarovski gallery store. Naomi Watts, Jimmy Smits and Kerry Washington will all walk the red carpet.

The last night of ET Canada’s parking garage party series serves up double the schmooze with Julie Christie and Brit thriller Glorious 39 followed by Playback magazine’s Hall of Fame fete celebrating David Cronenberg, Denys Arcand, Viggo Mortensen and Nina Dobrev.

The Berkely Church hosts Don McKellar and the rest of the cast from crime comedy Leslie My Name is Evil while Canadian film distributor Maple Pictures takes over Victor at Hotel Le Germain for its swanky event.

Source: Now Toronoto

The CW recently interviewed Nina Dobrev who plays Elena Gilbert on their new hit vampire show, The Vampire Diaries, which is originally based on a popular book series that holds the same title. She started off by describing a little bit about her character on the show. She goes on to explain the premise of the show in great detail.

Vampire Diairies drew an impressive 4.84 million viewers in its debut last night, making it The CW’s most-watched premiere ever (even beating 90210 last year). Among females 18-34 (a.k.a. The CW’s sweet spot), it notched a strong 3.1 rating.

Preliminary ratings suggest the fifth season premiere of Supernatural didn’t fare as well, drawing (a still decent) 3.4 million viewers.

Source: EW.com

Can’t get enough of vampires? That’s exactly what the CW hopes, as they’re launching the latest and greatest bloodsucker saga, The Vampire Diaries, based on the books by L.J. Smith. The show’s leading lady is the lovely and talented Nina Dobrev, a young Canadian actress best known for her days on Degrassi: The Next Generation. She stars as Elena, a pretty and popular teen still smarting from the deaths of her parents when she makes the acquaintance of two vampire brothers, Stefan (Paul Wesley), who’s good, and Damon (Ian Somerhalder), who’s not. PopStar recently spoke with Dobrev by telephone as she headed into work down in Atlanta. The Vampire Diaries — which premieres tonight — will air on Thursdays.

How many girls did you beat out for the role of Elena?

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EW: Did you read the Vampire Diaries books?

ND: I have read the first three books. I’ve been told not to read any further because the creator, Kevin [Williamson], asked us to get the feel for it, read the first couple, but then he wants us to take our own interpretation. My character especially has been changed the most out of anyone because, on a superficial level, I’m not blond and blue-eyed. But other than that, my character, they made her a little more relatable and a little more vulnerable, because they want the audience to feel and relate to her, whereas in the book, she has a little harder edge. She’s a little bit more of a mean girl.

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Don’t forget to tune into The CW and watch the first episode of The Vampire Diaries which stars our Nina Dobrev as Elena!

The show airs at 8PM, right before Supernatural – check your local listings!

And be sure to return again tomorrow for screencaptures of the pilot!

Self-possessed, unassuming, laid-back–and dead tired after flying all night from the set of The Vampire Diaries in Atlanta, Ga.

This isn’t Nina Dobrev’s thing.

She’s 20 years old, she’s Canadian, her family moved to Toronto from Sofia, Bulgaria, when she was two, she attended Toronto’s Wexford Collegiate School for the Arts and she grew up on Degrassi: The Next Generation. Hollywood? Not her deal. Not really.

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Nina is featured in a few mags right now (TV Guide, Nylon, EW). I have added scans.