Heroes: So you’re saying there’s a chance it might stick around?! That’s the latest word coming out of camp Heroes, now that NBC has recast Sendhil Ramamurthy (Heroes’ Mohinder) in the net’s own pilot Rex Is Not Your Lawyer, giving the role to Jerry O’Connell instead. An NBC rep said Ramamurthy pulled out of Rex because of a scheduling conflict with Heroes, which was in first position. So maybe with Eastwick’s cancellation, it’s Rebecca’s turn to stay home with the twins?

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It’s not just men, killer sharks also seem to get smitten by actress Hayden Panettiere at first sight. In an interview on late-night U.S. TV chat show Jimmy Kimmel Live!, the ‘Heroes’ star revealed that she spends a lot of time in the water, surfing and protesting the killing of dolphins and whales. She even revealed that she often found herself swimming with sharks.

“I tend to attract them everywhere I go… I’d really rather not see a shark while I’m paddling on a board… but, if you want to see a shark, put me in the water,” Contactmusic quoted her as saying.

The 19-year-old recalled an encounter when she attracted one shark by peeing in the ocean off Hawaii.

“This safety diver got in to take pictures of my brother and my mum and they had their fins on and when the shark comes too close, you put your fins in their face, and I didn’t have my fins on and all of a sudden… they start going, ‘Shark, right behind you!’” she said.

“I was going, ‘What could it be? Tiger shark, Mako, bull, Great White…’ I swam for my life… They were yelling at us because it’s the worst thing to do is to swim away from the shark and make all the splashing. I was like, ‘Guys, you yelled shark… How else do people react? I practically walked on water back to the boat,’” she added.

Hayden Panettiere has admitted that she is secretly worried that a crazed Heroes fan will stab her. The actress – who plays a girl that is able to heal herself in the series – said that she has been concerned ever since the show began that a supporter who takes the programme too literally might one day go too far.

“I’m just afraid somebody’s going to stab me one day and think that my power is real and they expect me to start healing. I’ve been thinking about that since the first season,” she confessed to Showbiz Spy. “I’m like, ‘What if somebody really thought I was indestructible?’ Because I’ve heard some wacky things come out of people’s mouths that you go, ‘Guys, it’s not real’.”

She may be one of the most gorgeous girls in Hollywood, but Hayden Panettiere admits that she often “hates her body.” Yep, that’s right – even a natural beauty like the Heroes actress suffers from bad hair days and moments of insecurities, but luckily for Hayden, she is becoming more confident with her body as she matures.

“I often hate my body and have bad hair days,” she told Mizz magazine. “I could show you a million-and two-things that I don’t like that I would change about myself. But as I’m getting older, I’m learning that this is the body I have and I have to make the best of it and live with it and learn to love it. And if you love your body, I believe it loves you back.”

Heroes is set to return to NBC for its fourth season on September 21st. This brand new chapter, titled Volume 5: Redemption, finds our Heroes each putting their lives back together. Claire (Hayden Panettiere) is finding that her biggest challenges are forgetting her old life and starting college. How does someone who has led such an extraordinary life assimilate back into everyday college life? Any semblance of normalcy is shortly overturned when Claire’s roommate commits suicide and Claire discovers her new friend Gretchen (guest star Madeline Zima) is hiding a secret herself. On the other side of the planet, Hiro Nakamura (Masi Oka) has gone back to his old life in Japan, but discovers that he has a terminal illness. When Hiro can no longer keep his illness hidden, he sets out to fulfill his own personal bucket-list – righting the mistakes of his past. But will Hiro be able to correct the errors of his ways without severely altering the past and present?

But the biggest challenge for our two heroes is a strange and dangerous Carnival. They are a traveling band of outsiders with powerful abilities, lead by a charismatic and powerful leader, Samuel (Robert Knepper). Alongside Samuel, is his right hand man, Edgar (guest star Ray Park) a deadly Speedster with a talent for knives, and Lydia (guest star Dawn Olivieri) the Tattooed Lady. Samuel leads his flock to intercept with the lives of all of our heroes. He will find them, and he will entice them to join him. And together, they will ask the same basic questions: Who are we? What does having powers mean to the world? How should we live our lives – shameful or proud? Should we hide or live out in the open? And if the world of powers is revealed, how will the world ever recover?

Hayden Panettiere and Masi Oka recently gathered to answer some of these questions in person. Here is what they had to say about Heroes: Season IV, Volume 5: Redemption:
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Hayden Panettiere has admitted that it upsets her when she is judged by those who don’t know her. The Heroes star is aware that being in the public eye means you will receive some negativity – but wishes people wouldn’t judge her based on the roles she plays – or what has been written in the press.

“People think they know me because they see me on TV or in movies – but the public don’t really know me,” Hayden told teen mag Shout.

“I’ve learned that no matter what you do, someone is always going to have a problem with it,” the ‘I Love You, Beth Cooper’ actress adds. “At the end of the day, the only person you can please is yourself.”

“I don’t like the idea that someone can see me on screen and say ‘Oh, I don’t like her.’ You don’t know that. You’ve never hung out with me and you’ve never had a conversation with me, so you don’t know that you don’t like me!”

And asked about the constant gossip surrounding her, Panettiere insists: “They’re all rumors. Don’t believe any of it. None of it is true.”

Lately Hayden has opened up about her now infamous misspelt tattoo. The tattoo reads ‘Vivere senza rimipianti’ – ‘Live without regrets’ in Italian – but there’s one too many i’s. Luckily, she seems to be able to laugh about the whole thing and have a good attitude towards it.

You got papped in your bikini in France, which is when it was discovered the tattoo on your back is misspelt tattoo. Was that embarrassing for you?
[Laughs] Me and my misspelt tattoo! You know what? I can’t blame anyone but myself. I figured I wouldn’t get bored of it because I couldn’t see it, but because I didn’t see it, I didn’t notice the mistake until nine months later. What are you going to do, though? Stranger things have happened.

Didn’t you double-check the spelling before you went for the tattoo?
I thought I’d asked enough people and triple-checked. But it is just one letter out, I think it’s an easy fix. I think it’s kind of funny too. How typical! As soon as I realised, I couldn’t stop telling people and everyone would bust up laughing.

So you’re taking the full blame?
Yes. I guess I wrote it down wrong. Oops. Luckily, it’s only an ‘i’ that’s wrong, so if I get the dot of the ‘i’ removed, it will be fine. Every tattoo is unique, so I put my own twist on this one. I like to do things differently.

To read the full interview, visit http://www.mirror.co.uk

Hayden Panettiere has blamed the paparazzi and the public for “destroying” her love life, insisting celebrity romances are ruined by media intrusion. The “Heroes” actress quickly became a tabloid favorite after the TV show debuted in 2006 and her on-set love affair with co-star Milo Ventimiglia featured heavily in gossip columns.

But the 19-year-old, who split from Ventimiglia in February, is convinced Hollywood couples have it tough because fans’ interest in their love lives puts unprecedented pressure on a relationship.

She tells Britain’s Company magazine, “It’s very, very difficult and people have no idea what they do to peoples’ relationships. They destroy them. The paparazzi and the public. The public wants to read about your personal life, and the paparazzi give it to them by nosing into your personal life and saying things that are just not true and horrible.”

Panettiere insists the ever-present photographers also limit her freedom because even the most menial of tasks become a chore.

She adds, “I used to walk my dogs in my pajamas. You know something’s not right when you’re lying in bed for 15 minutes in the morning going, ‘How do I get milk for cereal without having to leave my house?’ I would be so happy if I could walk down the street without someone coming out of the buses.”

She may have the face of an angel but Heroes star Hayden Panettiere says she’s a “feisty” one. The 19-year-old wouldn’t even use the words innocent or sweet to describe herself.

“I wouldn’t call myself a dark soul, but I’m feisty and I can be very edgy. Being my size and having blonde hair, with a sweet, innocent-looking face is interesting because that’s not who I am.”

She doesn’t want us to think she’s complaining, but she does want us to know that being a celebrity isn’t all fun and games. Growing up in the public eye can’t be easy, and Hayden Panettiere says that sometimes she’s sick of being famous.

“The fact you can’t walk down the street to get a cup of coffee without 10 cameras in your face is hard. It really is a very invasive industry and the line between your work and play is so blurred if not nonexistent, that it’s tough. It makes it hard to live, and I’m not sitting there going, ‘oh woe is me, my life is terrible’ but people get this idea in their head that what we do isn’t hard and it is. It’s work and do I want to get up every morning and go to set? No, there are some days I’m like, I don’t want to go to work today, but I love what I do.”

Hayden is currently filming the fourth season of “Heroes.”