Milo Ventimiglia

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Hayden Panettiere was in the headlines this week for two different things: one for yelling at a reporter while in Hawaii, and secondly, for allegedly wanting her ex Milo Ventimiglia fired from Heroes.

But Hayden wanted to clear up the two stories and tell her side, so she spoke to Ok! magazine today. First she addressed the Hawaii story, which she said was blown out of proportion.

She says, "I have tremendous respect for the media and reporters – particularly the press who treat the people they are interviewing with dignity. I am appreciative that the press has supported me, my career, and especially the causes I feel passionately about. While in Hawaii, one reporter grabbed me suddenly from behind and frightened me. It happens. Typically, the press has treated me with great respect."

Ok, we’ll give her that. We wouldn’t want anyone grabbing us suddenly either! But why did she have to tell the rest of the reporters on the red carpet that they make her life miserable? We’ll chalk that up to a bad day.

The second rumor floating around this week was that Hayden wanted Milo fired from the show Heroes , which they both work on. Sources had said Hayden didn’t even want to be on set when he was there. As for that story, Hayden says, "Milo and I are very close. We have enjoyed and continue to enjoy working together."

Now that sounds like a PR-contrived response if we’ve ever heard one! We had heard Hayden was even lobbying to producers to get his character killed off, and Milo was shocked and didn’t want to stoop to her level.

But ultimately, we couldn’t imagine the producers ever letting her get away with that. Plus show creator Tim Kring told Ok! magazine that whatever’s going on between Hayden and Milo will not affect the outcome of the show. He says, "The final decision about which characters live and die on Heroes rests with me. I've made no announcement yet as to who will return and who won't."

Hayden Panettiere has been making headlines lately in regards to her attempt to save the whales. The 'Heroes' star has become a hero in her own right as she fights to bring awareness for the Whaleman Foundation.

We caught up with Hayden at an intimate dinner she hosted at L.A. hotspot Beso which brought out Eva Longoria, Isabel Lucas, Ken Paves, Donald Faison and her boyfriend Milo Ventimiglia.

Isabel Lucas was mum about her recent accident with Shia Labeouf, but did talk about her commitment to bringing awareness towards this cause. She says, "In Alaska, the women can't breastfeed their baby because their diet is predominantly whale meat and whales have so much mercury in their bodies because of ocean pollution. They’ve been infected and the breast milk feeding their baby is actually highly toxic."

Hayden's man Milo confessed that he learned about the charity through Hayden. He said he thought Hayden was really brave "to put herself in a position that a lot of people wouldn't put themselves in."

In regards to the arrest warrant that was issued against her, Hayden said, “There was, the Japanese culture is such that its one of the kindest most polite most welcoming cultures you can ever run across. I think they did it to pretty much scare us from coming back."

She added, "I went and had a meeting with the foreign minister…the foreign minister said I was welcome anytime. Very kind man. Very welcoming, and he said I was his most welcome guest so there’s a shocker."

Check out the video below for more scoop...

Milo Venti-I don't know how to spell or pronounce his last name-iglia appears in GQ Magazine for its upcoming March issue.

He finally opens up about his not so secret relationship with Hayden Panettiere saying that they've been really low key because it's basically no ones beeswhacks if their dating or not.

One thing he does like is the nickname HALO that they've been given by the blogs. He says, " You know what, man—it makes me smile."

On a side note, he looks pretty yummy in the picture he took for GQ. It's very GQ!