Vampire Diaries’ Candice King Is Pregnant, Waiting for Tiny one With Steven Kreuger
The Vampire Diaries alum Candice King announced she's pregnant alongside side her third toddler, her first with fiancé and The Originals costar Steven Kreuger.
Sink your teeth into this news: The first Originals toddler is on the manner.
Sequence alum Candice King is pregnant alongside side her third child, that can well presumably also additionally be her first with used costar Steven Kreuger, the couple announced on Instagram Dec. 8.
“We’re having a toddler!” the Vampire Diaries smartly-known individual, who got engaged to Steven in Might maybe presumably additionally, wrote. “Tiny one Krueger coming Might maybe presumably additionally 2026!”
Candice, 38, added, “The finest gift we could well presumably also hope for this holiday season.”
The actors—who played Caroline Forbes and Josh Rosz on CW's The Originals—received a range of treasure in the comments of their announcement, including a message from costar Claire Holt.
“Yayyy,” Claire wrote, “so tickled for you both.”
Candice and Steven have already been making unique memories with their limited one, who joins enormous sisters Florence Might maybe presumably additionally King, 9, and Josephine June King, 5, who Candice shares with ex-husband Joe King.
In fact, Candice and Steven renowned Thanksgiving early with the girls in November.
“My authorized holiday tradition is cooking my authorized meal of the three hundred and sixty five days all day prolonged!” she wrote in her Nov. 19 Instagram put up. “Grateful for 4 generations of females, 3 rounds of ‘Roll the Dice, Trudge the Reward’, 2 luscious cakes, and 1 smokin’ sizzling fried turkey moving by my man. @stevenakrueger Heart Elephantine & Abdomen Elephantine xo.”
Steven joined their coven two years up to now when the couple began relationship, and the Yellowjackets actor made things reliable in Might maybe presumably additionally when he got down on one knee.
“A pair of weeks up to now @stevenakrueger gave me the finest gift of all when he requested me to marry him,” Candice wrote on Instagram at the time. “Thank you for asking me to dance thru life with you.”
And elegant days later, Steven signaled that the 2 were in the early phases of marriage ceremony planning.
“We’re starting to have conversations,” the 36-three hundred and sixty five days-musty urged the Unique York Post. “I deliver, for the moment, we are taking half in the engagement. We’re not going to lumber it. We’re looking out to peek how work stuff goes over the following three hundred and sixty five days. But we are starting to toss around some suggestions regarding the assign we are looking out to manufacture it [and] precisely what we are looking out to manufacture. There's a range of probabilities.”
Candice and Steven are now marking a prime milestone for the Vampire Diaries franchise: They’re the first actors from the extended Mystic Falls universe to have a toddler together.
Alternatively, they fabricate not seem just like the first to head toward the aisle. The Originals’ Danielle Campbell and Colin Woodell, who played Davina and Aiden, respectively, got married in September 2025 after seven years together.
And higher than a decade earlier, The Vampire Diaries alumni Joseph Morgan and Persia White—who played Caroline's treasure hobby Klaus and Abby, respectively—tied the knot in 2014 after assembly on the region of the series three years prior, with the actor turning into stepdad to her grownup daughter Mecca from a earlier relationship.
Relive the magic of Mystic Falls by behold succor at secrets and techniques about The Vampire Diaries…
1. Ashlee Simpson Was Practically the Large name
Imagine it or not, The CW essentially wanted The Vampire Diaries to be a smartly-known individual automobile for Jessica Simpson's youthful sister Ashlee Simpson nonetheless after discovering Nina Dobrev, the network in the end solid Ashlee on their Melrose Space revival.
Epic has it, coming off of her bustle on High College Musical, Ashley Tisdale became as soon as additionally offered the characteristic of Elena, nonetheless became all of it of the manner down to smartly-known individual in Hellcats, which aired for elegant one season on The CW.
“Half of Hollywood, I deliver, went out for the characteristic, for all our roles,” Nina later urged E! News of the coarse casting competitors. “I deliver I did one thing elegant. Here I’m. We needed to see and receive our characters. Every episode we learned one thing extra and one thing extra, and in the end we created and molded these fabulous, awesome characters.”
2. Nina Didn't Galvanize in Her First Audition
Whereas it's hard to factor in anybody else nonetheless Nina in the a few-persona characteristic that Elena would in the fracture turn into (she additionally played Katherine Pierce, Amalia Giroux and Tatia Petrova all the scheme thru her six-season stint), the smartly-known individual, who became as soon as known for her characteristic on Degrassi at the time, didn't precisely ticket the showrunners all the scheme thru her first audition.
“The funniest story regarding the first impact of Nina is that she didn't develop an impact,” co-creator Julie Plec explained to EW. “None of us remembered seeing her for the first time. And then she, thru her brokers and the casting administrators, acknowledged, 'Hi there, listen—I became as soon as in wretched health that day, I didn't fabricate my easiest work, I essentially truly want this piece.' [She] put herself on tape, which then got sent to us and it became as soon as so magical and so ideal that she frequently had the job from that minute forward.”
3. Ch-Ch-Adjustments
After Nina became as soon as announced as the tell's Elena, fans of the long-established e book series were excited she did not have the persona's signature blonde hair and blue eyes.
Varied adjustments from web assert to conceal incorporated giving Elena a nervous teen brother (Jeremy, played by Steven R. McQueen) in desire to a 4-three hundred and sixty five days-musty sister Margaret, altering her aunt's name from Judith to Jenna, altering Matt's last name from Honeycutt to Donovan (he's additionally not linked to Vicki, who’s his sister in the series) and making Caroline a shut buddy of Elena's in desire to her enemy.
4. The Peep the Salvatores
After discovering their main lady, TVD wanted the 2 male parts of the conventional treasure triangle. No straightforward job.
“We looked high and low to solid Stefan and Damon,” Julie explained, noting Nina “did chemistry read after chemistry read with a few actors.”
One of the indispensable crucial actors who read for either (and usually both!) roles? Zach Roerig (who would go on to play Matt Donovan), Michael Trevino (who would land the characteristic of Tyler Lockwood), Nathanial Buzolic (later solid as Kol), and Seventh Heaven smartly-known individual David Gallagher, with Julie admitting of the latter, “He impressed us so great before every little thing…nonetheless your complete Seventh Heaven part, I ponder if he'll ever be capable of win previous that.” (She would later solid him as a werewolf after seeing Substantial 8.)
And then, in the end, they chanced on their guys: Paul Wesley and Ian Somerhalder.
“Paul and Ian extra or much less came in behind in the midst of. Paul auditioned enjoy 15 cases, and Ian extra or much less seemed all of a sudden,” Julie acknowledged. For her piece, Nina recalled Paul (who first read for Damon!) standing out from the remainder of the guys learning opposite her in the chemistry reads: “The fully one who wasn't making an are trying too hard, that didn't communicate to me at any level except we were filming, became as soon as Paul Wesley,”she urged EW, “so it's humorous to assume that he did the elegant part,”
5. Ian Practically Starred on One other Vampire Level to
Earlier than the Lost alum landed the characteristic of Damon, Ian essentially essentially wanted to affix HBO's Correct Blood, auditioning for the characteristic of Jason Stackhouse.
“I auditioned for Correct Blood. I elegant couldn't convince Alan Ball that became as soon as my characteristic,” Ian acknowledged all the scheme thru a Q&A about the piece which in the fracture went to Ryan Kwanten. “And then I didn't win it, and I became as soon as very bummed. I couldn't see Correct Blood until now.”
Ian later published on Scrutinize What Occurs Dwell that another actor tried to sabotage him all the scheme thru the audition course of.
“In the last take a look at of the tell, there became as soon as a man who confirmed up, and he became as soon as elegant looking out to play enormous frosty and extra or much less enjoy psych me out in the room, and I elegant shut it down, and I acknowledged, 'No scheme, man—right here is my characteristic,'” he recalled. “And I went in there and elegant made it happen.”
When requested if the frequent public will be accustomed to his competitors, Ian spoke back, “It’s likely you’ll well presumably presumably also know. I in level of truth don't bear in mind his name.”
6. Brush With the Regulation
Moral as the series premiere became as soon as in the end airing on Sept. 10, 2009, news broke that Nina and her co-stars Sara Canning, Candice Accola and Kayla Ewell, apart from celeb photographer Tyler Shields, were apprehended by authorities on disorderly behavior prices in Georgia after they were alleged to be distracting passing motorists all the scheme thru a photograph shoot that took relate on a tiny-win entry to highway.
After they were all cooperative and paid a elegant, they were released by the Monroe County Sheriff's Department.
7. On-Save Romances
Great enjoy onscreen, treasure became as soon as blossoming on the region all the scheme thru its eight-season bustle.
Paul dated TVD visitor-smartly-known individual-became-The Originals lead Phoebe Tonkin for several years following his ruin up from wife Torrey DeVitto, who played Meredith Fell in season three. Candice and Zach were in a two-three hundred and sixty five days relationship after she temporarily dated Steven.
And Joseph Morgan and Persia White fell in treasure on the region when they both joined the tell in season three, going on to win married in July 2014.
And then, pointless to reveal, there's the finest IRL TVD relationship…
8. Ian and Nina's Romance-Grew to turn into-Legend Friendship
Delena fans were satisfied when it became as soon as published the co-stars were relationship in precise-life, in the end calling it quits in 2013 after three years together…elegant as Damon and Elena were in the end getting together on the tell.
However the used couple lickety-split squashed any rumors of atrocious blood when they joked about their breakup whereas accepting the 2014 Of us's Different Award for Handiest Chemistry.
When Nina talked about their ruin up in their joint speech, Ian added, “And but our characters are quiet relationship on the tell.” Nina's acknowledge? “It's a upright part it's not awkward…Wisely, it's a upright part we have chemistry!”
And after Ian's April 2015 marriage ceremony to Nikki Reed, Nina had nothing nonetheless kind phrases to reveal.
“I don't assume that's irregular in any appreciate,” Nina answered to a Scrutinize What Occurs Dwell viewer who favorite it became as soon as odd that she became as soon as guests alongside side her ex and his wife. “That's enormous. Why can't every person be guests?”
9. Paul and Nina Didn't Earn Along
Whereas they were portraying thought to be one of TV's most cherished unique couples in the tell's first season, Nina and Paul “didn't win alongside” in any appreciate all the scheme thru the first five months of filming, Nina published.
“I respected Paul Wesley; I didn't enjoy Paul Wesley,” she admitted on the Directionally Challenged podcast in 2019. “I bear in mind every person would stroll as a lot as me after the tell aired and so that they'd be enjoy, 'Are you and Paul relationship in precise life?' because every person thought that we had such upright chemistry. I realize now that there's a elegant line between treasure and abominate and we despised every other so great that it read as treasure.”
Sooner or later, the 2 sorted out their differences, with Nina explaining Paul is now thought to be one of her easiest guests.
“We ended up attending to a upright relate and it became as soon as elegant, nonetheless of every person, I deliver I doubtlessly peek him the most and hang around with him the most [now],” she acknowledged. “We're doubtlessly the closest, enjoy, we hang around plenty and we're essentially upright guests and I enjoy his wife. It's so humorous how great has modified.”
10. Taylor Swift Inspired This Persona
A enormous fan of Taylor Swift, Kevin urged E! News in season one he became as soon as “desperate to have [Swift] design play a vampire.”
He added, “Wouldn't she develop an fabulous Kirsten Dunst circa Interview with the Vampire-model? Oh my god, I will’t let you know the scheme hard I'm looking out to win her. I would abolish to have her on the tell!”
In fact, he even had her in mind when creating and casting the characteristic of Stefan's BFF Lexi, which could possibly well in the end go to fan-authorized Arielle Kebbel.
But alas, Kevin admitted she became as soon as “too enormous” for the tell.
11. Dawson's Creek Practically Got right here to Mystic Falls
Whereas they weren't fans of stunt-casting, Julie's dream became as soon as to have Joshua Jackson (a.k.a. Pacey Witter) be half of the tell.
“I deliver our tell works so correctly because we don't essentially stunt solid. That being acknowledged, if there's some enormous sizzling TV smartly-known individual that's readily accessible that we treasure, then…” she favorite. “As I always shaggy dog story, I truly have my Joshua Jackson delusion: Pacey in Mystic Falls.”
Ideally, he would've taken on the comprehensive-anticipated characteristic of Accepted vampire Klaus, a chunk so indispensable that higher than 200 actors auditioned for it sooner than relative unknown Joseph nabbed the villainous characteristic that can well presumably birth a profitable spinoff, The Originals. If Joshua had ever ended up in the characteristic, it likely would've remained a one-season arc, as before every little thing intended sooner than Joseph proved too irresistible to abolish off.
12. Buffy Rebuffed Them
In what became as soon as The Vampire Diaries' one factual are trying at stunt casting of kinds, the producers reached out to Buffy the Vampire Slayer icon Sarah Michelle Gellar to play Rose, a vampire who developed a connection with Damon.
“Initially me and my pipe objectives had us looking out to win Sarah Michelle Gellar for Rose,” Kevin published to The Unique York Post. “She became as soon as very appreciative nonetheless elegant acknowledged no. She became as soon as the fully stunt casting we'd have ever agreed to.”
The Strolling Boring smartly-known individual Lauren Cohan nabbed the vampire piece in its assign.
13. A Large name's Lovely Exit
Whereas The Vampire Diaries' fanbase became as soon as used to seeing many actors design and go (with a range of on-conceal deaths and resurrections), Nina's announcement that she can be leaving the tell at the discontinuance of season six afraid many.
“I always knew I needed Elena's story to be a six season adventure, and within these six years I got the bound of a lifetime,” the smartly-known individual wrote in an Instagram put up.
Julie additionally issued a commentary. “Pronouncing goodbye to Nina is both bittersweet and aesthetic,” she acknowledged. “We are able to maneuver over Nina and the four hundred characters she played, nonetheless we behold forward to the insane and involving wretchedness of fixed to tell tales of our Salvatore Brothers and our great-cherished and proficient ensemble.”
The series went on for 2 extra seasons without Nina, who returned for the series finale.
14. OG Ending
Manner succor in season two, Kevin and Julie realized their excellent ending whereas drinking in a mall food court docket, and it's one that doubtlessly would've pissed off both Delena and Stelena fans.
“Both brothers could well presumably also quiet die in the name of saving their lady after which be looking out at her enjoy ghosts—because we had offered the Varied Side—as she went off into the sunset to live her life,” Julie published to EW, “and maybe marry Matt Donovan or maybe turn into a doctor, nonetheless that these brothers will be facet-by-facet looking out at her live.”
But as the series continued and the treasure triangle fundamentally shifted, their discontinuance-game modified. Lots. (Sorry, Matt!)
15. OG Ending…Part 2
After Nina's exit and Stefan's relationship with Caroline, Julie and Kevin, who returned to write the series finale after leaving the tell at the discontinuance of season two, debated two endings.
“There were two pitches on the table: Person that gave ideal closure to the season after which another that gave closure to your complete series,” Julie explained to EW, adding they’d “elegant as many discussions over killing Damon as we did over killing Stefan, and let me let you know, for an awfully very prolonged time the pendulum swung the opposite scheme.”
In the fracture, Stefan sacrificed himself, giving Damon the chance to live out his human life with Elena. And after in the fracture deciding the destiny of thought to be one of different TV's other iconic treasure triangles with Dawson's Creek, Kevin admitted to being torn over who Elena ended the series with.
“It's no secret I became as soon as always a fan of Stefan and Elena ending up together,” Kevin, who became as soon as a Dawson fan in the Dawson-Joey-Pacey treasure triangle, admitted. “In another universe, that can well presumably've been the ending, nonetheless we didn't have time to tell that story in the last season because we didn't have Elena. We couldn't win them succor together.”
16. The Accepted Last Line Revealed
“Howdy, brother.”
Damon's first line in the pilot served as the final line of the series, as the Salvatore brothers were reunited after Damon's human loss of life, a poignant and complete-circle ending for the series and the characters' relationship. But it became as soon as in the muse written to be a thoroughly a range of line.
“The authentic version became as soon as, 'Oh, I peek they’ve hero hair in heaven,” Kevin published to EW. “Then they hugged.”
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