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History may not end up remembering The Secret Circle—The CW’s sorta cash-in on its #1 hit The Vampire Diaries—as anything other than a footnote. But those of us who stuck with the witchy teen drama until its (crazy) end will remember it as being much more than that. It was a simmering cauldron of superbly weird TV elements, some of which were quickly tossed while others approached greatness. One of its best elements was present from the beginning: Phoebe Tonkin’s Faye Chamberlain, the dark-haired, (secretly not very) mean girl who alternated between snarky one-liners and naked vulnerability to a whiplash-inducing extent. Say what you will about The Secret Circle’s place in TV history, it did at least one undisputedly important thing: It introduced America to Tonkin and, in my opinion, Hollywood now owes Australia a THANK-YOU NOTE. (Well, after the Hemsworth one.)

Plus teen monster fans can now rejoice! This week worlds will collide in a truly awesome way when Tonkin joins The Vampire Diaries as Hayley, a wayward orphan werewolf who may come between Tyler and Caroline. While it’s up in the air just how long Hayley will stick around Mystic Falls (TVD guest-stars don’t have the highest survival rates), Tonkin spoke to me last week from Atlanta (which, hey, good sign that she’s still there!) about her new character, the main differences between The Vampire Diaries and The Secret Circle, and also why she keeps getting cast as tough girls when she claims to be anything but.

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There’s a new wolf in town on The CW’s The Vampire Diaries.

On Thursday’s episode of TVD, Secret Circle alum Phoebe Tonkin will be rolling into Mystic Falls to pay a visit to her good friend Tyler (Michael Trevino) as werewolf Hayley.

Having helped the hybrid break his sire bond to Klaus (Joseph Morgan), she is sure to ruffle some feathers between one of our favorite couples with her sudden appearance. But don’t worry just yet, Tyler-and -aroline (Candice Accola) fans.

“I think Hayley has bigger priorities than boys at this stage,” Tonkin tells Celebuzz, She acknowledges that “Caroline is obviously threatened when this new girl comes into town that has a history with her boyfriend,” but she assures viewers, “it was an innocent relationship.”

Of Hayley and Tyler, Tonkin says, “They have such a strong bond because of what they went through together when she helped him break the sire bond.” She adds, “Caroline is really suspicious and she has a lot of questions for Tyler about what exactly happened at the Appalachians.”

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After Season 3 of “The Vampire Diaries” wrapped, we put together a little wishlist for Season 4 — and on that list was Phoebe Tonkin. We once described her as “The Secret Circle’s” answer to Ian Somerhalder, so now that the Circle has been broken, it’s only appropriate that she show up in Mystic Falls to wreak some havoc.

In tonight’s episode of “The Vampire Diaries,” Phoebe makes her debut as Hayley, a sassy, sexy newcomer who will fill in some of the blanks when it comes to Tyler’s (Michael Trevino) extended absence in Season 3.

“They met when he was in the Appalachians trying to break his sire bond from Klaus, so there’s a lot of history there and a strong bond with how far back they go,” Michael Trevino told us when we visited him on set. “And, of course, Tyler hasn’t mentioned this to Caroline at all. He forgot to mention that toward the end of Season 3, when he’s back and he broke the sire bond, he forgot to mention that he had the help of this gorgeous female werewolf in Hayley. He must have forgot! He’s an honest guy. He must have just forgot.”

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