Hayden Panettiere has urged the media to allow troubled Britney Spears the space she needs “to heal”.

The star has accused the hordes of snappers who constantly pursue Spears of ruining the pop star’s life - likening their behaviour to that of an obsessed “stalker”.

And the actress believes the photographers’ behavior is dangerous - insisting Spears’ recent string of car collisions is down to them taking high risks to ensure they get lucrative snaps of the star.

She says, “I love acting more than anything else in the world, so I can’t see myself stopping. But I think this situation is becoming so dangerous - it causes car accidents.

“There’s no differences between what they do and stalking somebody. Look at somebody like Britney Spears - who deals with 50 cars following her all the time - nobody gives her room to heal.”

And Panettiere is devastated the Toxic singer has fallen out of favor with music fans - because she was her idol growing up.
She adds, “To me growing up, she was everything, and we built her up and ripped her down.”

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Hayden Panettiere is hoping to shake off her ‘child star’ tag now she has reached her 18th birthday.

The Heroes star hates being dubbed a “Hollywood baby” in magazine articles - because she now considers herself to be an adult.

She says, “I don’t know if they can call me a child star any more. I’m an adult now so I don’t think they would ever give me that again. Ive gotten it before when I was young and it’s a wonderful thing. If they tried to call me a child starlet now I might go, ummm I don’t think so.”

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Hayden Panettiere has signed up to play a brunette in a new movie - in a desperate bid to avoid being typecast as an all-American blonde.

The 18-year-old beauty, who plays a fair-haired cheerleader in the hit sci-fi TV series, recently completed filming Fireflies In The Garden, about a dysfunctional family in which a dark-haired Panettiere stars opposite Julia Roberts.

And she is hoping the dramatic role and darker locks will be enough to convince audiences of her versatility.

She says, “I wanted to kill the cheerleader image, so I changed my hair colour and wore no make-up. It’s been very hard for me in the past to have people see me in any other way. They can be very narrow-minded.”

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Hayden Panettiere is set to follow in the footsteps of former U.S. vice president Al Gore - by releasing a film modelled after his Oscar-winning documentary An Inconvenient Truth.

The Heroes star, 18, made waves last November when she took part in a protest against the slaughtering of dolphins in the historic whaling town of Taiji, Japan - resulting in local authorities issuing a warrant for her arrest.

Since then, she has further championed the cause by lending her name to the Save The Whales Again! campaign and heading to Washington D.C. to confront the Japanese, Icelandic and Norwegian embassies about their hunting practices.

Now one of her main priorities is an informative movie about the whaling industry, which she is convinced will be as groundbreaking as Gore’s global warming expose.

She tells British magazine Grazia, “It’s going to be the Inconvenient Truth of the oceans.”

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Hayden Panettiere has spoken out in defense of Paris Hilton’s airheaded party girl image, insisting the heiress is actually a “genius”.

Panettiere, who has been a close friend of Hilton’s for several years, says the 27-year-old socialite is actually more level-headed than the dumb “character” she projects to the media.

She explains, “She’s a nice girl and a lot brighter than people give her credit (for) but no one sees her like that because she plays this character all the time. She’s actually a marketing genius.”

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Heroes hottie Hayden Panettiere stars in a parody of a sexual harassment Public Service Announcement (PSA) on the Will Ferrell-owned comedy site FunnyorDie. Watch the video below!

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20th Annual Nickelodeon’s Kids’ Choice Awards 2008 held at UCLA Pauley Pavilion in Westwood, California, yesterday. In attendance were Miley Cyrus, Emile Hirsch, Abigail Breslin, America Ferrera, Jennifer Love Hewitt, Ross McCall, Cameron Diaz, Brendan Fraser, Jodie Foster, Chris Brown, Jesse McCartney, Shia LaBeouf, Lil Mama, Nia Long, Hayden Panettiere, Ashlee Simpson, Rihanna, and Jordin Sparks.

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