Goodbye Elena: Nina Dobrev officially leaving The Vampire Diaries

It's official! And from the horses mouth too! Nina Dobrev has announced that season six, the current running season, of The CW hit television show, The Vampire Diaries will continue without her. The show was given the green light for season seven earlier in the season and it seems the series is going all steam ahed without the beautiful Dobrev.

Mere hours ago Dobrev posted a picture of herself along with executive producer, Julie Plec, on Instagram stating:

"I've just spent the most beautiful weekend on Lake Lanier in Georgia with my own TVD Family, the cast and crew of The Vampire Diaries. I want to be the first to tell you it wasn't just a holiday celebration, it was a goodbye party. I always knew I wanted Elena's story to be a six season adventure, and within those six years I got the journey of a lifetime. I was human, a vampire, a doppelganger, a crazy immortal, a doppelganger pretending to be a human, a human pretending to be a doppelganger, I got kidnapped, killed, resurrected, tortured, cursed, body-snatched, was dead and undead, and theres still so much more to come before the season finale in May. Elena fell in love not once, but twice, with two epic soulmates, and I myself made some of the best friends I'll ever know and built an extended family."

Rumours have spread like wildfire through the internet this morning with different interpretations at to what this news means to The Vampire Diaries, however the only facts that we have at the moment is that Dobrev is leaving, Micheal Trevino, who plays Mystic Falls' beloved and hottest werewolf Tyler Lockwood, will be leaving with his co-star. Finally, that Plec will change the focus of the show from Elena, to the Salvatore siblings.

It feels like that moment when Sarah Michelle Gellar wouldn't renew Buffy for an eighth season all over again. Delena fans certainly won't be happy to hear this news.

Yet, now Julie Plec, the series' writer and executive producer can steer the show in any direction she feels necessary. This could potentially open up thousands of potential storylines, that may have been otherwise dismissed. It's really quite exciting!

Nina Dobrev has given the successful supernatural show six strong years, having played an abundance of characters, died several times, become a vampire, lost her humanity, found it again, burnt down her house, and seen far too many people she cared about die. Elena clearly deserves a break from Mystic Falls' run of supernatural bad luck and I'm sure Dobrev could do with a few weeks off after all that!

In less than twenty four hours we've lost two of the hottest stars and characters from The Vampire Diaries. So with that we wait for the season six finale to hit in May, and wish both Nina Dobrev and Micheal Trevino farewell. 

Anthony Steward Head is still up for Buffy The Vampire Slayer Spinoff 'Ripper'

For years there has been talk and meetings, pitches and ideas for a spinoff show from Buffy The Vampire Slayer focusing on everyone's favourite watcher Rupert Giles (Head). Of course our prayers weren't answered and the show never became reality like 'Angel' did, however all hope isn't lost.

The Vampire Diaries Season 5 Finale

For five years we have seen extraordinary characters live, suffer and die in Mystic Falls however never before had we seem so many popular characters really meet the end. The town of mystic falls is famous for the dead being- well not so dead. For five years within the Vampire Diaries universe death never truly meant the end, however after the season 5 finale that all ended. Along with the other side and some of our favourite characters from The Vampire Diaries. Below I will deconstruct the main events of the apocalyptic finale.

Damon Salvatore Destined to Die?

With season five almost at a close rumours have began to spread about a certain vampire from Mystic Falls. The guy everyone loves to hate and hates to love: Damon Salvatore.

In a recent interview with E! Ian Somerhalder (Damon Salvatore) himself stated...

"When Damon dies, it is the dopest scene."

“The ending, I think, is really gonna throw people. It definitely involves Damon in a very cool way. There is some very very cool stuff with Damon, Elena, Bonnie…stuff you just didn’t see…It is definitely a cliffhanger."

Would The CW really kill off Damon Salvatore? Did Somerholder just give us the biggest spoiler in The Vampire Diaries history? Are we really ready to let the destructive Byronic Salvatore brother go? 

I have a feeling that this 'death' won't be what we expect. After all, if vampirism can be cured by the blood of the doppelgänger's maybe this is only the death of his vampiric Damon. Or maybe if Bonnie is involved- she loses the burden of being anchor and regains her magic, bringing Damon back from the dead? With Caroline Dries (the series' executive producer) and the team, we never can be sure what's actually going on and it's implications for Mystic Falls.

With only a few episodes left we'll find out soon enough...