heroes (2 posts)

Teen Vogue

Yeah, yeah, we know. By saving the cheerleader, we can save the world.

But the world may need to save Hayden Panettiere from possibly believing she really is the indestructible rah-rah girl she portrays on the boob tube.

In the June issue of Teen Vogue, the Heroes heroine chats about the tabloids and how invasive they can be when it comes to her personal life.

"Nothing is private," she says. "And when they write about you, it's almost completely false."

Of course, when pressed if she's referring to stories about her rumored romance with costar Milo Ventimiglia, the tiny TV titan insists: "I'll not comment until the day I die!"

Um, Hayden, despite what your alter ego Claire is capable of doing, from what we hear, voicing the truth after you've passed on tends to be a wee bit difficult.

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Forget saving—come this summer, kids and creepy aging fanboys alike can do whatever they want to the cheerleader.

NBC has teamed up with Mezco Toyz to launch the first batch of collectible figures based on the Heroes characters.

Hayden Panettiere's cheerleader Claire Bennet, Masi Oka's time- and space-bending office drone Hiro Nakamura, Milo Ventimiglia's absorbent Peter Petrelli, Sendhil Ramamurthy's erudite Mohinder Suresh and Zachary Quinto's villainous Sylar are the characters that made the initial cut and are set to debut in all their seven-inch glory in June.

The remainder of the superpowered set will be released in two additional waves over the course of the year, as will—most potentially disturbingly—an assortment of alternate heads for the dolls, which will cost between $17 and $20.

Living out adolescent fantasies in the privacy of one's own home...priceless.