Hayden Panettiere loves starring in hit TV series Heroes – because taking part in the show’s stunts means she doesn’t have to go to the gym.

The 18-year-old actress insists that unlike other stars she doesn’t have to embark on a gruelling fitness regime to stay slender because she gets a thorough work out during her day job.

She says, “I love doing my own stunts. I don’t have time to go to the gym, and I don’t have a chance to be on teams any more. Being on the set of Heroes keeps me in shape. I’ll do as many stunts as they me do. ”

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Hayden Panettiere has become the latest star to auction off a date – she’ll take a fan whale watching in return for a hefty charity donation.

The actress will spend a day with the winning bidder and guests on the high seas in August.

The whale watchers will be joined by marine expert and conservationist Jeff Pantukoff.

The eBay.com auction, which runs from May 20th to May 30th, will benefit The Whaleman Foundation, which is Panettiere’s favorite charity.

Panettiere’s deep love for sealife became clear last year when she risked her life by joining protestors in the waters off the coast of Taiji, Japan and attempted to stop fishermen from killing dolphins.

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.

The auction is a Save The Whales Again! venture.

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Hayden Panettiere has slammed journalists for reporting inaccurate stories of her love life – insisting almost everything written about her in the press is false.

Panettiere, 18, is currently dating her Heroes co-star Milo Ventimiglia, and has previously been linked to reality TV star Stephen Coletti – but she’s fed up of her romantic liaisons taking precedence in the media over her acting career.

She says, “Nothing is private. And when they write about you, it’s almost always completely false. I’ve never been pregnant, I’ve never moved in with somebody. There was a story about somebody giving me a ring that had ‘Sweet like Hayden’ engraved on it, and that person was like, `Eww, I would never give you that.’ And I was like, `I would never take that.’”

And the star admits she’s found the perfect solution to avoiding the press who constantly hound her about her love interests.

She says, “I’ll not comment until the day I die. I’m going to be married and I’ll be like, ‘I don’t know who you’re talking about. Who?’”

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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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