AfterElton Briefs: Jonathon Groff's Hayloft, Ian Somerhalder's Elephant Trunk, "The Pig With The Froggy Tattoo," and More!

Orlando Bloom attacked by an airbrush on the cover of Men's Health

• Happy Birthday to Prince Harry, who turns 27, Dave Annable (32), and Tom Hardy, who's 34.

• Below you can see Broadway.com's Susan Blackwell have a lengthy discussion with a fabulously cherubic-looking Jonathon Groff at his dad's farm. Jonathon Groff ... in a hayloft. That would just about complete my bucket list.

• Dustin Lance Black talks about what to expect when the all-star reading of his play Prop 8 happens next week on Broadway.

• Ian Somerhalder on something to look for on tonight's Season Premiere of Vampire Diaries:

Well, you know, you open up the cover page of season 3, episode 1, and it’s, like, the first half a page, Damon’s already naked. So I’d spent almost two days on set completely naked, which is kinda awesome, because as if I wasn’t close enough to our crew members, I feel really close after that,” he laughs. “So our first AD Rudy, at like 8 o’clock in the morning, came up to me and says, ‘Hey listen, I have an idea.’ When Rudy has an idea, it’s usually pretty good. It was that I should go to the prop master, another genius part of our show, and have them make some elephant ears. The first thing we see is Nina’s reaction, so what if I was completely naked and we had elephant ears and double-stick tape, and I put them on each of my thighs, and ultimately, she would be staring at a very small, young elephant. The reaction that we got was f—ing amazing. I hope and pray that that is what we used in the edit because it was such a natural ‘Ohmygod!’ reaction.”

• Great. Now I keep picturing him using it to strip the leaves from a tree branch, and hoist people onto his back.
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• Below you can see a preview of tonight's Piers Morgan interview with Kristin Chenoweth, in which she talks about reconciling her Christian views with her stance on marriage-equality.

• USA has renewed Covert Affairs, Royal Pains and Necessary Roughness for new seasons.

• The ratings are in, and NBC's Up All Night did well in its Wednesday debut, but ratings plummeted for the follow-up Free Agents.

• TV Line has spoilers for upcoming shows, including Vampire Diaries and The Good Wife.

• Morris Chestnut has been added to a major story arc on the first season of American Horror Story.

• Madonna is reportedly releasing a perfume next year called "Truth or Dare," and it will evidently have the scent of gardenias.

• Speaking of Madonna, Towleroad has the audio of the new duet between Tony Bennett and Lady Gaga.

• Below you can see the latest teaser trailer for The Muppets, which is a parody of the frenetic trailer for The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo.

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