Hayden Panettiere's Hair Change

Hayden Panettiere dyed her hair red because she was fed up of being called "cute".

The 'Heroes' star - who portrays a blonde-haired cheerleader in the action show - opted for the dramatic change in appearance because she no longer wanted to "overcompensate" with her personality to seem interesting.

She said: "I was tired of being a blonde and being... you get stuck in one thing and known for one thing and as a cheerleader or whatever that image. It's fun to change things up, and I feel I don't have to overcompensate as much personality-wise when I have red hair as I do with blonde hair.

"I'm typically a very fiery person anyway, but I just feel like cute and blonde and little is just so one category and one thing and changing my hair colour, I feel like I don't have to overcompensate so much for the fact that I don't like being called cute or anything like that - especially being all 5-foot-2 of me."

The 20-year-old beauty - who is romancing boxer Wladimir Klitschko, 33, and previously dated Welsh TV presenter Steve Jones and her 'Heroes' co-star Milo Ventimiglia, both 32 - has also admitted she finds herself "drawn" to older men.

She told Us Weekly: "It just happens to be the people that I'm drawn to, and you go, 'How old are you?' And then it's like 'Typical!' It's just a number and it's just on a birth certificate and whoever it may be, older, younger, blonde, brunette."