The 21-year Canadian actress even showed off a handmade bracelet made by one of her fans! Nina also chatted with the LA Times about her adventures moving from Degrassi to The Vampire Diaries.

Nina mentioned, “It was hard in the sense that a lot of my friends are on the show, but we still keep in touch. The Degrassi producers were very supportive. They sent me flowers when I got The Vampire Diaries, and then as soon as it premiered and got the great numbers that it did, I got another large bouquet of flowers from them. I went back and I did two episodes for Season 9, so that my character could be written out. I don’t know! Right now the schedule here is so overwhelming, and I can’t see how I could have time to do anything else, but you never know. I would do it. We’ll see!”

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

9:18 am/PST: When will the vampire fad go away? “Hopefully not before Sept. 10,” cracks exec producer Julie Plec, referring to the show’s premiere date.

9:23 am: I’m still not clear on why Ian Somerhalder isn’t here.

9:24 am: Kevin Williamson insists Diaries is “not just a high school show. It’s a small town show. Once you get past the vampire premise, we get to telling the story about this town.”

9:25 am: All three actors on the panel claim to have read the books on which the show is based. I believe maybe one of them.

9:26 am: Paul Wesley (Diaries‘ answer to Robert Pattinson) went out of his way not to watch Twilight. “If there are similarities to Robert’s character in Twilight, so be it,” he says.

9:30 am: Williamson initially feared that Diaries would be perceived as a Twilight/True Blood rip-off. “The pilot is tough because there are a lot of similarities to Twilight,” he concedes. “There was no way around it. But we’re switching things around as we get [deeper] into it. We’re not a movie with a beginning, middle and end. We’re a TV series that evolves.”

9:34 am: Even though his character is 150 years old, he’s not some “perv,” Wesley maintains. Glad we cleared that up!

9:35 am: Williamson confirms that he’s writing Scream 4. But with Courteney Cox tied up with ABC’s Cougar Town, “I bought myself a season [to finish it].”

9:36 am: An avid Twitterer, Williamson confesses he still doesn’t quite have a handle on the 140-character phenom. “I don’t know what I’m supposed to be twittering,” he shrugs. “I get links to weird stuff. I’m sort of exploring [the whole thing].”

9:37 am: Somerhalder is “in every single episode,” Williamson says. “He’s the devil. He just comes to town and makes everyone’s life hell.” Still not clear on why he’s not here.

9:41 am: The entire panel is engaged in a “private” conversation about their recent encounter with True Blood hottie Alex Skarsgard. Specifically, why does he have a Southern accent if he’s Swedish? (I was wondering the same thing when I met him at Comic-Con!) Recalls Plec: “I asked him, ‘Are you Southern?’ And he said, ‘Yes, I’m from Mississippi.’” Mystery solved!

9:46 am: Williamson reveals that a new series regular will soon be joining the cast. “He comes to town with a secret agenda,” he teases.

9:47 am: The panel ends. I’m still not clear on why Ian Somerhalder wasn’t there.

Source: EW.com

SATURDAY JULY 25:

The Vampire Diaries: Pilot screening. Based on the novels by L.J. Smith about a young woman torn between two vampire brothers, one good, the other evil. Q&A with actors Nina Dobrev, Paul Wesley and Ian Somerhalder, as well as executive producer Kevin Williamson, writer Julie Plec and executive producer Bob Levy.