Vampire Diaries Spoilers Including New Character!

TV Guide has some info on the upcoming Miss Mystic Falls pageant:

Vampire Diaries’ Miss Mystic Falls pageant is coming up! Any scoop? — Hailee

NATALIE: Remember this dance scene from Season 1? Get ready to relive it. “[The episode] gets us back to a little bit of romance and good Mystic Falls events at their finest and it evokes a memory of Season 1, very deliberately, of what was going on in the triangle back then,” executive producer Julie Plec says. We hear you should take that scene and multiply it by 1,000 and that’s the type of moment certain fans will get by the end of the hour.
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TV Line has some scoop on a new character and Caroline:

Question: Anything on Vampire Diaries? —Kelley

Ausiello: How about some exclusive casting scoop? Madeline Zima of Heroes and Californication fame will guest-star in Episode 8 as Charlotte, a character rumored to share a romantic past with — wait for it — Damon!

Question: I would love some scoop on Caroline! She’s my favorite character on The Vampire Diaries! —Amy

Ausiello: Hayley will continue to be the bane of her existence. “She is definitely throwing a wrench in Caroline’s perfect world and her perfect relationship with Tyler at the moment,” Candice Accola tells TVLine. “If anything, we’ve learned at this point within the series that Caroline is a very resilient, strong character, so I don’t think she’s going to put up with it too easily.” In the meantime, she’s going to be “interacting a lot more” with a certain Original. “She’s getting to see different sides of him,” the actress hints, “but she doesn’t really know how she feels about it.”