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Kissing Hayden Panettiere on Heroes didn't come as a complete shock to Madeline Zima.

"I had an inkling," Zima told us yesterday at Hollywood Life's Hollywood Style Awards at the Armand Hammer Museum in L.A. "I did always play my character a little bit with some kind of secret—whether it was that or something else still remains to be seen."

So what was it like locking lips with Claire-Bear on the episode airing tonight? Mostly business as usual...

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To think there was a time when all a boy had to do to impress Hayden Panettiere was know how to kick a red rubber ball.

"My biggest crush was in the second grade on this kid named Mike," Panettiere told me the other day. "He was really good at kickball."

Why didn't things work out for the two back then?

Well, Mike had a crush on Panettiere's best friend at the time. "I was jealous, so I told her that he told me that he had a crush on both of us," she confessed. "So it made me feel a little bit better about the whole thing."

Why on earth was I talking to Panettiere about school-yard romance?

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Hayden Panettiere has no problem showing some skin.

In her new movie, I Love You, Beth Cooper (in theaters July 10), Ms. Panettiere stars as the most popular girl in high school who is the object of the school nerd's affection. In one scene, with her back to the camera, she drops her towel in the locker room to impress her geeky suitor, played by Paul Rust.

So just how naked was she? Read on to find out...

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Chace Crawford could be playing footsies with Hayden Panettiere.

The Heroes starlet has auditioned for director Kenny Ortega's updated remake of the classic '80s flick Footloose.

Panettiere, my source says, recently sang for filmmakers (the new Footloose is being turned into a full-blown musical à la the Broadway version). "They were really impressed," the insider gushes. "No one realized what a good singer she is."

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