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Here's what is happening in pop culture:

• Nina Dobrev announced to her fans, via Instagram, that she is leaving her role as heroine Elena Gilbert on CW's "The Vampire Diaries" after six seasons. [Entertainment Weekly]

• Jon Stewart returned to "The Daily Show" after a week off, and made a spirited defense for his sucessor, Trevor Noah. [Vulture]

• Christoph Waltz denied that his villain character on the upcoming James Bond movie "Spectre" is actually the notorious Ernst Stavro Blofeld. "That rumor started on the Internet, and the Internet is a pest," he told British GQ. The Internet responded: "You know what that means? It means he must be playing Blofeld!" [The Hollywood Reporter]