Hayden alongside others such as, Ashley Greene, Kellan Lutz and Ed Westwick (to name a few) all participated in the “Fight Poverty and Disease Campaign” video. Check it out below, screen captures coming soon.

Hayden Panettiere will join Alicia Keys, Justin Timberlake and Lebron James to pay tribute to philanthropic teens at the inaugural Teen-Nick Halo Awards.

The celebrities have been paired up with the teens based on their own charity interests Keys will present an award to a person involved in an Aids education organisation; animal rights activist Panettiere will work with a volunteer for an ocean research advocacy group; Timberlake with the founder of a scoliosis education support group, and James with a community improvement project worker to keep teens away from drugs and gangs.

Hayden attended the Benefit For The Whaleman Foundation last night looking absolutely gorgeous. I love her new hair cut. Hayden’s “Heroes” co-stars, Jimmy Jean-Louis and James Kyson Lee went out to support Hayden and her good cause. Head over to the gallery for all the latest images.

Hayden Panettiere is offering fans the chance to join her as she swims with dolphins to raise money for her campaign to end commercial whaling in international waters. The Heroes actress is a longtime campaigner for dolphins and whales, and even had a warrant out for her arrest in Japan after she joined in protests against the slaughtering of the marine mammals in the historic whaling town of Taiji in 2007.

But the brush with foreign authorities hasn’t quashed the blonde’s campaign against the killing of the friendly sea creatures, and is hoping to raise cash by offering fans a day in the seas with just dolphins and her for company.

The offer is set to go under the hammer on online auctioning site eBay.com and bids will be accepted until 4 September (09). The cash raised will go towards the Give Good Green campaign.

Hayden Panettiere has a new blog post up on TakePart.com sharing her thoughts on the fight to save whales and dolphins; and the passion that drives her to support orgs like The Whaleman Foundation and Surfers for Cetacean. She writes,

The goals of our campaign are to end whaling along with all commercial dolphin and porpoise hunts worldwide while raising awareness to the other threats whales and dolphins face.

There is a brutal practice in Japan that has unnecessarily and painfully taken the lives of tens of thousands of dolphins and other small whales. They blind and frighten these helpless animals by hammering on metal poles in the water, driving them into small coves where they are trapped in nets and then killed. I experienced this first hand when Jeff invited me and Isabel Lucas, our Australian spokesperson, to join him on a trip to the notorious dolphin-killing cove of Taiji, Japan in October 2007.

That now famous event — one that almost ended violently — is currently being shown in the new documentary “The Cove“; which reveals the horrors of the Japanese dolphin slaughter.

Hyaden Panettiere is a golden girl in the eyes of the People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (aka: PETA). The group lauded the sexy “Heroes” star for halting the filming of a scene after a crew member used a leaf-blower to blast birds out of a tree.

They quoted her as shouting to the bird-brained jerk:
“What are you doing? How would you like someone to blow that thing inside your house?”

When tabloid cover girl and paparazzi favorite Hayden Panettiere, the gorgeous, 19-year-old star of the hit television series Heroes and the upcoming big screen comedy I Love You, Beth Cooper, was asked about her feelings towards the late Michael Jackson and his music, the young actress called him a musical genius. Panettiere heroically defended Jackson’s reputation as one of the true icons of popular music and refused to focus on the dead music superstar’s sullied past (from his eccentric behavior to allegations of child molestation).

“He was the King of Pop, he was Michael Jackson,” declared the blonde beauty and Palisades, New York native. “He was a genius, and I really hope that people take a second to remember him for the brilliantly talented, amazingly successful person that he was and what he created, as opposed to ‘Jacko’ or any of those silly rumors about him. Whatever he went through, at the end of the day, I hope that people remember how brilliant he was, because Michael Jackson was so brilliantly talented.”

In addition to deceased pop stars, Panettiere has also chosen to come to the rescue of our planet’s dwindling whale and dolphin populations. Not one to simply write a check to help out her favorite charity, Panettiere recently flew to Japan to talk with government officials to encourage them to bring an end to the merciless massacre of sea mammals.

“I got involved with the whales and dolphins just from my love of animals,” she explained. “Someone asked me to be involved with it, and I said, ‘Absolutely. I’ll be there by your side until the very end, until the bitter, bitter end.’ I’m using all my energy on getting this solved, because it really is a big, big problem. Right now, we’re asking people to go to socialvibe.com and click on The Whaleman Foundation and sign our petition. We’re trying to get a million signatures for the IWC meeting in about a year. To sit in front of cameras and do PSAs (public service announcements) and tell people, ‘Save the whales,’ and then to go an event, that is one thing,” she continues. “But, I would rather go back in that water and stand in front of those animals than do any PSA or go to any meeting. I did it once (in Japan). I’ll do it again, again and again. I’ll keep doing it until the laws are changed.”

Once she finishes up promoting her new movie I Love You, Beth Cooper, Panettiere will be heading back to the Heroes set to finish up episodes for next season. However, she was anxious to clear up recent internet rumors concerning her career and private life. Panettiere denies she’ll be starring in the upcoming reboot of the 1980’s box office hit Footloose (“I’m not doing it, but I never say never with anything. But I’m on a show where we have two months occasionally to do something else, so it’s tough to fit anything in there.”) and that she’s planning to marry 32-year-old, former camera operator and current British TV presenter, Steve Jones (who cozily accompanied her, hand-in-hand, to many of the high-profile, celebrity events at the recent Cannes Film Festival).

“I’m single and mingling, I’m not dating anyone specifically,” she insisted. “I’m not pregnant if there are any rumors like that. I’m not getting married. I’m not looking for a house with anyone. What else could there be? They’re all rumors. Don’t believe any of it, none of it. None of it is true.”

Hayden Panettiere has taken to YouTube to support the cease and desist of commercial whaling! The Heroes star has teamed up with The Whaleman Foundation and SocialVibe to inform the public about the dangers of this practice. Animal rights activist Panettiere alongside the environmental activists hope to collect 1,000,000 signatures for the petition against commercial whaling to deliver in the hands of the International Whaling Commission. Help the cause by checking out the video above and signing the petition!