Nina Dobrev glimmers in gold as she arrives at The CW’s Upfront presentation held at New York City Center on Thursday (May 17) in NYC.

The 23-year-old actress’s Vampire Diaries co-stars – Ian Somerhalder, Paul Wesley, and Steven R. McQueen – also hit the carpet for the event.

The series will be moving to a new time slot for 2012-13 fall season in October. Instead of 9PM on Thursdays, the show will air at 8PM before Kristin Kreuk‘s new show Beauty and the Beast.

FYI: Nina is wearing Dolce&Gabbana, Jamie Wolf earrings and a Jimmy Choo clutch. Steven is in Joseph Abboud.

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Check out this new promo poster of Nina Dobrev for the upcoming season of The Vampire Diaries.

The theme for the posters is forbidden fruit and the commenters at TVLine have deciphered them all. Smart people!

Nina holds a pomegranate, which symbolizes eternal life and also “mankind’s sinful choices.”

On-screen brothers Paul Wesley and Ian Somerhalder hold an orange and apple. The orange, in the Renaissance era meant free will, while the apple is temptation.

Meanwhile, Joseph Morgan as Klaus, holds on to a blood red pear — immortality.

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Nina Dobrev bundles up in blue flannel for the September 2011 issue of Nylon mag.

EW also just released three brand-new promo pics from the third season of The Vampire Diaries.

Paul Wesley shared with the mag about Stefan’s transformation, “Imagine Stefan sitting in high school. Apart from the fact that I just look weird sitting in high school…he’s murdered all these people. What do you think, we’re just gonna go hang out now? As far as he’s concerned, he’s moved on. He’s past it all.”

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Nina Dobrev is no match for Paul Wesley and Ian Somerhalder‘s tug-o-war skills in this new shot from Rolling Stone.

The Vampire Diaries trio were styled by Cristina Ehrlich to show off some of fall’s hottest trends.

Nina, 23, enjoyed the shoot. She shared, “We’ve been doing a photo shoot that’s unlike any that we’ve done before. We’re testing the limits of gravity. There’s something sort of deadpan and expressionless about it, and at the same time, we all feel like rock stars.”

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Nina Dobrev shows off her pearly whites as she attends The Vampire Diaries signing at the 2011 San Diego Comic-Con on Saturday afternoon (July 23).

The 22-year-old actress was joined by cast mates Ian Somerhalder, Paul Wesley, and Candice Accola at the event.

Later in the evening, Nina attended the Cowboys & Aliens premiere held at the San Diego Civic Theatre and and Candice stepped out at Entertainment Weekly’s 5th Annual Comic-Con Celebration.

Nina, wearing Zuhair Murad, bragged on Twitter, “I’m not gonna brag but… I may or may not have met Steven Spielberg tonight. Just sayin’.”

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The season two finale of The Vampire Diaries in TONIGHT!

Show star Nina Dobrev sat down with PopWrap to dish about what you’ll see, what you won’t see and what’s coming in season three. Check it:

A rollercoaster of a finale: “Last year was twists and turns that you just didn’t expect. This year is more dramatically intense than physically given the severity of what happens. I remember the feeling of watching last year. Of being so completely blown out of the park and being so stricken by it. I have not seen the finale, so I don’t know what my reaction will be, but we’re the Vampire Diaries, you know it’s going to be crazy.”

Setting up for a new season: “There’s not just one – there’s two or three kind of big twists that change the course of everyone’s lives, and they’re unexpected. It affects Damon & Elena hugely. It effects Stefan more than anyone would have imagined. Jeremy’s life is just completely turned around, and almost confusing – you’ll see why soon enough. But it initiates these storylines that will flourish in season three.

The one thing that Elena should do: “I’d love for her to smile a bit. I know Vampire Diaries is intense and dramatic and people are dying, but I don’t know why they have to always be dying around Elena. Why she has to be the one always witnessing it or being affected by it.

She needs to lighten up because if she becomes this constantly crying character, it makes her weaker. She needs to begin to have a real life again, because right now she’s consumed by chaos. There needs to be a light at the end of the tunnel. She needs to feel again, and have relationships again because everyone in her life has been suffering so much, it’s becoming an action sequence as opposed to this girl going through her life.”

“As I Lay Dying” airs TONIGHT, May 12 @ 8PM ET/PT on The CW.