Hayden Panettiere Beautiful, Candid On Set of Heroes

It would be wrong - on many levels - to go on about how good 17-year-old Heroes star Hayden Panettiere looked yesterday on the set of her hit show.

Either way, she didn’t play on her looks the way so many lovely young stars do, batting eyelashes and making sure you get a good look at the assets.

She seemed more like a perfect-attendance, student council president type … who just happens to be magazine-cover gorgeous.

Hayden Panettiere did, however, provide one of the more, troubling moments of the morning, and this one was straight out of a Buffy the Vampire Slayer rerun.

As a TV with Meevee correspondent toured the set, Hayden Panettiere made very clear that we won’t be seeing her in any Lindsay Lohan-style misadventures.

“I have an allowance that I get, the money was never made apparent to me, it was just, ‘This is what you love to do.’ I was raised completely as a normal kid,” she said.

“I take out the trash, I walk the dogs, I make the bed, I vacuum… I’m not allowed to leave the house unless I make the bed and make sure that everything in my room is put away.”

Hayden has a generous 1 a.m. curfew, however.

Besides the fans yelling “The cheerleader!” and pointing at her, there are some tough angles to being a pretty young star. Like the paparazzi waiting outside her house for her to leave.

“You usually have cameras following you, which makes it more of a scene,” she said. “I went to Venice Beach the other day, you can sort of blend in with people, which is kind of nice. But then they see 10 cameras, and they’re like, ‘Who are they looking at? Who are they looking at?’”

She sighed and shook her head, and someone asked if she could understand what has happened to Lindsay Lohan and to other young starlets, and if it could happen to her. The answer to the latter was an emphatic no.

“I’m not surrounded by those kinds of people they’re surrounded by. You understand how it happens, you understand what they did wrong,” said the older sister of Jansen Panettiere.

“But it’s so, like, controllable. When you’re putting nasty white powder up your nose, that’s you putting it up there, no one else is putting it up there.”

On Heroes, Hayden Panettiere, as you surely know, plays the cheerleader, Claire Bennet, whose super power is healing. Halfway through the tour, the prosthetics guys had a selection of fake body parts laid out on a long table.

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