Is This the Beginning of the End for The Vampire Diaries? Nina Dobrov is out

The CW has just revealed its 2015 fall premiere dates.
The Season 7 of The Vampire Diaries will premiere on Thursday, October 8 at 8PM ET.

It’s been a sad week for Vampire Diaries fans everywhere. Earlier this week Nina Dobrov announced that she will be leaving the show after its sixth season. The star made the following announcement via an Instagram post:

“Dearest TVD Family, 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 that 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 a human, a vampire, a doppelganger, a crazy immortal, a doppelganger pretending to be human, a human pretending to be a doppelganger. I got kidnapped, killed, resurrected, tortured, cursed, body-snatched, was dead and undead, and there’s 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 I will love forever.

There’s more to come before we wrap this up, and I promise you’ll get to hear all about my experiences over the next month as we approach the season finale (I have given an exclusive interview for the June issue of SELF Magazine that I am excited for you to see!), but until then I invite you to hop on the roller coaster ride that is Elena Gilbert’s life and join me as I celebrate her and prepare to say goodbye to her — and to my work family — as I move on to the next chapter of my life. I want to share this goodbye with all of you (this weekend’s pictures were just the beginning). You, the wonderful fandom who gave more love, support and passion than anyone could have ever imagined seven years ago, when a young Degrassi girl from Canada showed up in LA to audition for ‘that Twilight TV show.’ 😉 I love you all. Fasten your seatbelts. If you think you know what’s coming, you don’t.”

The news came as a blow to fans, with many expressing both outrage and sadness across multiple social media outlets. The sixth season of the hit CW show will end next month and many are speculating there may not be very many seasons to follow, with some saying the show should now end. Nina Dobrov is a vital part of the series playing both Elena and Katherine, and it is hard to imagine the continuation of the show without her.

One of the show’s producers, Julie Plec, made the following statement:

“Nina is excited to spread her wings, get some rest, travel the world and also take it by storm, and we support her a thousand-fold. We will miss Nina and the four hundred characters she played, but we look forward to the insane and exciting challenge of continuing to tell stories of our Salvatore Brothers and our much-loved and gifted ensemble.”

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