Ian Somerhalder  Ian Somerhalder  When we spoke with "Vampire
Diaries" and "Lost" star Ian Somerhalder in May, he was still
reeling from the tragic news of the Deepwater Horizon's
explosion and the subsequent oil leak into the Gulf of Mexico.
Today Somerhalder, who was raised in Covington, La., and has a
cousin who worked on the rig, is horrified that the leak still
hasn't been plugged and that up to 60,000 barrels of oil are
still pouring into the Gulf every day.  "Never in a million
years did I think that we'd be having this conversation two
months later," he tells Zap2it. "You know when something bad
happens in your life, or something goes wrong -- that weird kind
of really uneasy feeling you have in the pit of your stomach?
I've had that for two months."  Somerhalder returns to work on
"The Vampire Diaries" on July 13, but he's devoted his time off
the summer to tireless work in the Gulf region. Monday night
(June 21), Somerhalder participated in Larry King's special two-
hour telethon "Disaster in the Gu