Milo Ventimiglia was a special guest of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Admiral Mike Mullen at the 66th annual USO tour of the Persian Gulf. Milo’s birthday fell during the tour but Milo said he didn’t want anyone to know of it because wanted the focus to be on the visit of saluting the troops. Well, surprise surprise! After a long day touring bases, signing autographs and posing for pictures, the “Heroes” actor was given a surprise birthday party by the troops. It must have been a moving experience for Milo, who in the Persian Gulf for the first time, as he was quoted, “on my birthday, there’s no place else that I would rather be.”

Flashing a big grin for the camera is 20-year old PFC Cory Obitts (C) who posed for a photo with Milo during a meet and greet.

Milo sat between Dallas Cowboy Cheerleaders’ Christina Parker and Deryn Derbigny for the long flights in between USO tour stops.

The other guests of the tour included NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell, quarterback Drew Brees of the New Orleans Saints, defensive end Osi Umenyiora of the Super Bowl champion New York Giants, and software engineer/former head football coach of Marshall University Jack Lengyel.

images: USO.org

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• Instead of Smallville, the Choice TV show for Action Adventure went to Heroes.
• Instead of Kristin Kreuk, the Choice TV Actress for Action/Adventure was Hayden Panettiere of “Heroes”.
• Instead of Michael Rosenbaum, Choice TV Villain went to Ed Westwick of “Gossip Girls”.

Now what’s weird was there was no winner announced for Choice TV Actor for Action/Adventure in which Tom Welling was nominated.

This doesn’t bode very well for Smallville, which is on its last season this year.

POLL:

Just Jared has the list of winners.

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Hayden graced the blue carpet of the Gibson Amphitheatre in Universal City, in a multitonal red mumu.

Fox will air the Teen Choice Awards Monday at 8 p.m. ET/PT.

Just Jared has a list of winners.

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Heroes episode 3.02 “Butterfly Effect“
Airdate: September 22, 2008

Fans at the San Diego Comic Con ‘08 got treated to a showing of the first full hour of season 3  “HEROES: Villains“. It has been a long 9 months since season 2 ended and fans are so hungry for the show, Tim Kring actually wanted for people to tell the world that “Heroes is back!”.

So, without further adieu, here is the first 15 minutes of the third volume “Villains” premiere episode “The Second Coming”. Shown at the Comic Con, this video is not the best quality, but even with it I got the goosebumps. 

Thanks to borndemented86 for the video! Hat tip to ODI.

Get the scoop on the rest of Heroes volume 3 “Villains” episodes here.

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Heroes episode 3.02 “Butterfly Effect“
Airdate: September 22, 2008

If you were at the SD Comic Con ‘08, these pictures might already look familiar, if they were shown in the first hour of the premiere for “Heroes: Villains”

The promotional pictures show almost all the cast members but very little is revealed, except maybe Mohinder and Maya’s scene. And I take it Claire just saw Sylar standing at her doorway.

Thanks to Watching Heroes and ODI for the heads-up! Aren’t you guys just pumped about the new season? I think it will live up to hype!

Get the scoop on the rest of Heroes volume 3 “Villains” episodes here.

Images used with permission from NBC / Paul Drinkwater; Chris Haston

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At the Comic Con, Sci Fi Wire touched based with Justin Hartley about his excitement to play the green archer in Smallville, and included some SPOILERS in the interview.

• In season 8, we get to explore the mythology and origin behind Green Arrow
• Oliver is going to question his motives for being a hero
• Clark starts to embrace his destiny a little bit more

Read the complete interview here, and hat tip to spoiler-TV.

image used with permission from Newscom

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The Los Angeles Regional Paparazzi Task Force met at Los Angeles City Hall on July 31, 2008 to determine whether tabloid photographers have become too aggressive and dangerous to the safety of celebrities they track.

Milo Ventimiglia was among the first to testify, and the “Heroes” actor recounts being stalked by a group of paparazzi as he drove through West Hollywood. At each red light, three tabloid photographers would jump out of their cars and surround his car, blinding him with their camera flashes.

Milo admitted he lost a bit of confidence in the law when he went to the police station after one incident and was told there was nothing authorities can do.

John Mayer and Eric Roberts also testified before the task force. Meanwhile, the L.A. chief of police William J. Bratton criticized the meeting as “farce”.

L.A. Times covers the story here.

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But before we do, thanks to everyone who joined the Superhero give-away for a LEGO Batman/Robin scuba set. And by random generation, we have a winner!

Congratulations to #533 FRED, who said “I am Frederick THE GREAT
and must defeat Batman the SISSY. I would love to win this prize and finally defeat BATMAN.”

Way to go, Fred! I’ll email you for instruction on receiving your prize.

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The Lana Lang of television admitted that Smallville is the longest relationship she has had in the past 7 years. “And it has now pretty much ended.” As a way to seal the freedom, Kristin Kreuk cut off ALL her hair!

I (Kristin) just went in there on my own and Sarah (she is the key hairstylist on Smallville, and is freakin rad) tied it in a ponytail and sawed the sucker off…

The cut looks great on Kristin, but I’m surprised to find her very thin and haggard-looking in this photo. She looked different at the Comic Con last week. Maybe it’s the stress of filming a new movie.

She landed the title role for the movie adaptation of the video game “Street Fighter 4: The Legend of Chun-Li“. The film is still in productions and very few pictures have appeared… up until now…

The StreetFightermovie.net blog is up and running with pictures of the cast, some behind-the-scenes and insider look at the movie. Movieweb also has set photos of Kristin Kreuk and the other cast. And then of course, there are the YouTube images –

Just to clarify, Kristin will still appear in Smallville, in a few episodes as a guest star. She just won’t become a series regular anymore.

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Hayden Panettiere reportedly ripped off her cheerleader outfit on the set of Heroes to reveal a red lingerie. While singing a “happy birthday” to boyfriend Milo Ventimiglia during lunch, Hayden stripteased a velcro-lined version of her cheerleading outfit and showed off a sexy underwear to Milo… and to the rest of the cast and crew present.

No doubt Milo’s face turned bright red.

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; image: Newscom

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