Today is the day – friggin’ finally! Be sure to watch a brand new episode of Lost TONIGHT at 10/9c on ABC. I don’t want to post the promotional pictures yet, because I don’t even want to see them, that would spoil it. I will add them tomorrow =)

When not shooting Lost, Evangeline Lilly goes low-key for a grocery run in Hawaii on Monday. But prepare to see much more of the actress on-screen: After an extended break, her ABC series returns on Wednesday for an uninterrupted 16-week run.

Evangeline Lilly, who plays the beauteous Kate on “Lost,” confesses she’s part gypsy. It was that restless spirit that almost made her turn down the chance to costar in the ABC hit television series. It was the same wanderlust that has kept her on the move.

“As soon as I left high school I cut my ties with everyone I knew and took off to a new city and I started again,” says Lilly, seated at a small, round table in the corner of a dark bar in a hotel here.

“I moved (between) towns in British Columbia. I remember saying to myself when I got to this new town, `You can be anyone you want to be now. Nobody knows you. Nobody has an expectation of you. So you CHOOSE who you want to be.’ And choosing who you want to be is a very different thing than feeling like you just are who you are.”

For the next three years Lilly moved to six different places, each time assuming a new persona. “I tried out six different personalities and characters. It was really an amazing time, very lonely but very formative – Kelowna and White Rock and Vancouver – it was usually a five-hour driving radius, but still people didn’t know me. And what came out of that was I got a piece of this person and a piece of that person and a piece of that person and formulated the person I wanted to be from all those different characters I tried on.”

Those experiences taught her not to care what other people think. “That was very empowering,” says Lilly, who’s dressed in a multi-colored sweater cut to the naval, blue denim pants and black patent pumps.

“Of course, as an adolescent you care very much what people think of you. I always felt like not only did I care what people thought of me, I was a very faithful Christian as a teenager. I cared very much what the church thought of me and what God thought of me, what my parents and my peers thought of me and what the entire world thought of me. Because I felt that was my spiritual responsibility and that was something I had to let go of when I realized I’m responsible to myself and to God and that whatever any one else in the world thinks – even if they’re the church – does not matter.”

Lilly, who longs to be a writer, wasn’t sure she wanted to act. She had no designs on becoming a model, either. But she found herself doing commercials to pay her way through college. “It was the most degrading work I’ve ever done,” she shakes her head.

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Josh Holloway says he and his ‘Lost‘ co-star Evangeline Lilly have become great friends through filming love scenes together.

The hunky actor insists his off-screen friendship with Evangeline has blossomed because of how close their characters – Sawyer and Kate – have become.

Josh told Britain’s New magazine: “Evangeline and I have such a great friendship now. And we trust each other so much as actors that we are able to actually live it. Our friendship has deepened. When you’re trying to work honestly, it’s natural that you become closer as friends. It’s definitely not a sexy thing. When you’ve got 80 people watching it can be daunting, but you get used to it.”

Josh has also revealed he gets on very well with Evangeline’s fiancé, fellow ‘Lost’ star Dominic Monaghan, and says his wife Yessica is friends with Evangeline.

He said: “We have a very good friendship. Evangeline has a great friendship with my wife and I have a friendship with Dom. “But I’m sure Sawyer’s going to mess it up with Kate pretty quick! It’s his nature.”

Dominic Monaghan and Evangeline Lilly, back home after a trip to Los Angeles for the Golden Globes, practice football at a local park. Evangeline has been living with Dominic since her nearby house burned to the ground. Monaghan showed his girlfriend he is good with kids by including a local youngster (not pictured) in their game.

January 20 – Evangeline and Dominic play football in local park

I love these pictures – they are so cute =)

Lost star Evangeline Lilly is philosophical about losing her possessions in a December blaze at her home in Hawaii, because the tragedy was a blessing in disguise.
The actress, who plays castaway Kate in the hit desert island drama, was renting a home in Kailua, Hawaii which was destroyed by fire last month.

The star lost everything she owned in the blaze, but insists it wasn’t all bad. She says, “Fire is the greatest purifier and it feels really good. It feels really pure to have no possessions. It’s kind of a fun place to be at.”

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