November 29th, 2007 / Author: cwillett
It was no surprise to catch hunky Heroes star Milo Ventimiglia at the one-year anniversary party for Nissan’s Nissan Live Sets concert series in Century City, Calif., earlier this week. After all, like just about every other TV actor in Hollywood, he doesn’t have much to do while the Writers Guild remains on strike, so why not hit a hot Tinseltown event like this? But we were surprised to find out just how many things the young actor has going on behind the scenes.
“I run a production company,” he explained to OK!. “The strike keeps everything slow, but for the most part the company is still up and running. We’ve got a project that I’m working on with American Eagle that we just wrapped up. It’s another online series of short films and then I’ve got a couple things in development.” But mainly, says the former Gilmore Girls star, he’s “just looking for some time to relax.”
Of course, in Hollywood, “relaxing” is just a code word for exercising. “I run as much as I can, lift weights and just try to keep myself active.”
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Milo even took some time to come to the defense of his co-star, and rumored gal-pal Hayden Panettiere, who recently had arrest warrants issued for her in Japan, following her participation in a protest against dolphin poaching. “It’s admirable work that she’s doing,” Milo told OK!. “If there’s a cause that I find important, hopefully I’ll have as much courage to do the stuff that she’s doing.”
November 15th, 2007
An arrest warrant has been issued for Hayden Panettiere in Japan as a
result of her Save the Whales protest in the country, E! News reports.
“I learned today that I have an arrest warrant out for me in Japan
because of what I did for Save the Whales,” Hayden says.
The 18-year-old tried to be a real hero, actively campaigning
against the Japanese fishing and dolphin-hunting industry with the animal rights group Sea Shepherd by paddling
and crying in the waters two weeks ago, even engaging in a shoving match with fishermen.
Hayden is unsure regarding the consequences of the arrest warrant, surmising a
potential jail sentence may be in the cards, “but I doubt it… I guess they could come here and get
us, but probably not,” she says.
Photographs of Hayden crying and shouting were widely publicized around the
globe, and the star could only be happy her voice and cause were being heard
and seen.
“I was very excited that people were interested in what
we did,” she says. “In
this town, you tend to only get publicity for not wearing underwear or going to
rehab.”
November 2nd, 2007
Devoted animal lover Hayden Panettiere joined a group of activists protesting a dolphin hunt in Japan yesterday — and got in a shouting and shoving match with Japanese fishermen.
The Heroes hottie, along with six activists from the anti-whaling animal rights group Sea Shepherd, attempted to interfere with a dolphin hunt off the coast of Taiji in southwestern Japan. Fishermen approached the boat carrying Panettiere and shoved some of the activists with long poles and shouted in the face of the protesters.
Panettiere was visibly upset over the experience. “This baby [dolphin] stuck its head out and kind of looked at us, and the thought that the baby is no longer with us is very difficult,” she said.
According to Hideki Moronuki, chief of the whaling section at the Japanese Fisheries Agencies, “Whales and dolphins are traditionally being used (as resources) in Japan. In this light, we cannot accept an argument simply based on emotional causes.”
Around 14,000 dolphins are killed in Japan each year.
