For someone that despises vampires, Reverend Steve Newlin can't stay away from them.

Mike McMillian, who plays the sinister Church-owner on True Blood, has confirmed that he's returning on season three of the show.

"I've been told he'll be back," McMillian told MTV News.

The actor said he doesn't know when he and his on-screen wife, played by Anna Camp, will return. But he has some theories about how things could play out.

"I think like any good villain he's going to go away and lick his wounds for a while. But I think he suffered major humiliation toward the end of season two, and now I would imagine the Stackhouses are even higher on his list. If it was personal before with his father being killed, then it's really personal now with the Stackhouses humiliating him."

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