Make way for new bloodsuckers. While the core of the Mystic Falls gang will remain intact, there will be plenty more introduced at Whitmore College. It's natural. College is a time to meet new people and explore new horizons. For "The Vampire Diaries" this couldn't ring more true. Newcomers and goers constantly shake up their vulnerable existences. They're in a perpetual state of peril. So Whitmore College should be no different. If anything, it should amplify the vampire drama to new levels. So as fans countdown the days until the show's return, details from the set pour in about what life will be like at their new home.
Some of the more recent actors to join the season 5 cast are Kendrick Sampson from "Woodchuck" and "How I Met Your Mother's" Olga Fonda. According to TV Guide, Sampson will play Jesse, a fellow student who Elena and Caroline meet on their first day at Whitmore. They're certainly wasting no time introducing new and potentially heavy hitting characters. Caroline will take well to Jesse's charm and form her first Whitmore crush.
As previously reported, Jesse will erase any feelings Caroline still has for Tyler. When asked about a potential appearance from Tyler, TVLine responded, "Tyler who? There's nothing like a cute older college boy to make you temporarily forget the show's MIA hybrid hunk. That's what happens when Caroline meets Jesse, a hot, smart, confident and disarmingly sweet upperclassman at Whitmore. Among the other fresh faces in the season opener: smartypants Megan, who attends Mystic Falls High's 1950s dance and attempts to charm the pants off Jeremy, and Eastern European beauty Nadia, who crosses paths with Matt and Rebekah at a Prague bar - and comes on to both of them?! - before delivering an ominous warning to Stefan about 'The Originals.'"
Fonda meanwhile will play a mysterious European beauty who follows Rebekah and Matt back to Mystic Falls to stir things up on her own accord. She too will appear in the season premiere.
"The Vampire Diaries" will return to The CW on October 10 at 8/7c.