Nina Dobrev’s co-stars from The Vampire Diaries not too long ago jumped into motion to cease a stage backdrop from falling on her.

The 35-year-old actor, who performed Elena within the hit CW sequence, took the stage at Epic Con’s “I Was Feeling Festive 2” panel in Covington, Georgia, on Friday (December 6). She was joined by her former co-stars Candice King, who performed Caroline, and Kat Graham, who performed Bonnie.

At one level, a backdrop practically fell on Dobrev whereas she was talking on stage, prompting her mates to return to her rescue.

In a viral video of the incident shared to X/Twitter, King and Graham might be seen leaping out of their seats and pushing the backdrop up so it didn’t fall on Dobrev. In the meantime, Dobrev shortly obtained out of her chair and took off her leather-based jacket, seemingly confused by what had occurred.

Graham and King helped push the backdrop up into its right spot, earlier than strolling again to their seats.

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“Not as we speak, not as we speak!” Graham hilariously instructed the viewers, in response to the stage piece practically falling on Dobrev. “I don’t need to see any ‘Bonnie Saves the Day’ memes, alright… I don’t need to hear it.”

The Love Exhausting star then hugged King, earlier than explaining why she took off her jacket amid all of the commotion.

“I believed it was a spider!” Dobrev mentioned, prompting laughter from the viewers.

Regardless of Graham’s try and keep away from memes, followers have reacted to the viral second by poking enjoyable at how she and King saved Dobrev — very similar to their characters Bonnie and Caroline typically saved Elena within the supernatural TV sequence, which ran for eight seasons.

“They’re at all times saving Elena to the purpose it’s breaking the fourth wall,” one individual quipped, whereas one other wrote: “A long time later and they’re nonetheless defending Elena.”

“Not this being an precise illustration of the Elena, Caroline, and Bonnie dynamic????” a 3rd individual wrote.

Others quipped about how Dobrev took off her jacket when the backdrop fell.

“She dropped her coat prefer it was on hearth or an undesirable boyfriend,” one consumer wrote, whereas one other added: “Was the jacket holding her again?  She slipped outta that factor actual quick.”

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Throughout Epic Con over the weekend, Dobrev took to Instagram to share a video of herself on the occasion with King and Graham. Within the clip, Graham stood in between her two mates, as they recreated an image from their days on the set of The Vampire Diaries.

“We’re nonetheless simply children,” she wrote within the caption of the clip, which was set to Easy Plan’s music “I’m Only a Child.”

The Vampire Diaries reunion comes weeks after Dobrev introduced that she and her longtime accomplice, Olympic snowboarder Shaun White, are engaged.

In an interview with Vogue final October, White defined how he wished to shock the actor when popping the query, so he despatched her a faux invitation from CFDA/Vogue, which requested her to get dinner with the journal’s editor-in-chief, Anna Wintour.

“He made the invite look so professional,” Dobrev mentioned.

Nevertheless, when she opened the door to the restaurant, she found that solely a photographer and the skilled snowboarder have been there. “I went into shock. I simply froze and stared at him,” Dobrev mentioned.

In keeping with the Perks of Being a Wallflower star, she doesn’t keep in mind how the proposal occurred. Nevertheless, she may recall that when it occurred, White “mentioned all the fitting issues.” As soon as she mentioned sure, the pair have been joined by the remainder of their family and friends, they usually all had champagne to have a good time.

“Ultimately we realized, apart from the caviar, we hadn’t eaten something. So we ordered Shake Shack and dumplings to the Golden Swan,” Dobrev mentioned.