Ian attended the “Lost” Live: The Final Celebration event yesterday May 13th, I have added 41 pictures to the gallery, check them out!

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Ian Somerhalder is no stranger to television. Some of us remember his early performance as Hamilton on The WB’s “Dawson’s Creek” spin-off “Young Americans” in 2000. More remember his arcs on “Smallville” and the racy “Tell Me You Love Me.” With a decade of TV work under his belt, Somerhalder truly hit his stride during the 2009-2010 season. Not only was he asked to reprise his role as Boone on “Lost,” but he managed to do it while still appearing in every single episode of “The Vampire Diaries.”

When “Diaries” wrapped on Season 1 in Atlanta, Somerhalder, a native of Covington, La., planned to relax. “I was honestly going home to Louisiana to hang out with my family, eat some of mom’s cooking, and fish,” he says. “Other than publicity work, that was my entire schedule for the break.”

That all changed on April 20 when tragedy struck the Deepwater Horizon, a drilling rig positioned on the Gulf of Mexico off the Louisiana coast. An explosion destroyed the ship, which sank, triggering an oil spill from a deep-water oil well operated by BP. Weeks later, thousands of barrels of oil continue to gush into the water Somerhalder grew up playing in.

“I never wanted to be one of those actors with a political agenda,” Somerhalder says. He’s only been in Los Angeles for two hours since returning from Louisiana, where he’s been doggedly working to help the cause. “But this has become Obama’s Katrina in the way he’s dealt with it. It’s a massive disaster, on a scale we haven’t even begun to fathom, and it could have been stopped by a valve that cost half a million dollars.”

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