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Hollywood Mourns: Hayden Panettiere’s Tragic Passing at 36 Deemed Natural Causes

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Law enforcement officials have confirmed there are no “signs of foul play” in the tragic death of “Heroes” actress Hayden Panettiere, who was discovered by an acquaintance.

The 36-year-old star was found “unresponsive” in a Greenville, South Carolina apartment on Sunday around 1:50 p.m.

“Medical personnel provided assistance upon arrival; however, the individual, later identified as Hayden Panettiere, was pronounced deceased at the scene,” a spokesperson for the Greenville police disclosed to NBC News.

The ongoing investigation is being conducted by the Greenville Police Department in collaboration with the Greenville County Coroner’s Office.

“Preliminary findings have not revealed any indicators of foul play or suspicious circumstances. The 911 call was made by an acquaintance of Ms. Panettiere,” police stated.

A cause of death has not been revealed. 

“There’s an investigation ongoing,” Kacey Kitchen, the late actress’ publicist, said.

“We should know more tomorrow.”

Police responded to an incident involving the actress Sunday, law enforcement sources told TMZ, revealing the investigation was open.

She boarded a plane from Los Angeles with her on-again, offer-again boyfriend Brian Hickerson Saturday, according to the outlet.

Panettiere, from Palisades, NY, was best known for playing Claire Bennet in “Heroes” and Juliette Barnes in “Nashville.”

She starred in commercials as an infant before landing gigs on soap operas like “One Life to Live” in 1994 and “Guiding Light” in 1997. Panettiere was just 4-years-old when she appeared on the daytime soap “One Life to Live.”

“My introduction to acting was actually at 11 months old,” Panettiere told “Entertainment Tonight” in 2023.

“Playskool Toy Train was my first commercial, but, I don’t know if that would really be an introduction to acting, because I don’t think acting was involved at that point. I didn’t have lines, I was just playing.”

During the 1990s, she played Sarah Roberts in “One Life to Live” and voiced Dot in the 1998 movie “A Bug’s Life.” 

Panettiere appeared in shows such as “Ally McBeal,” “Law & Order: Special Victims Unit,” and “Malcolm in the Middle” during the early 2000s.

She played Kirby Reed in the 2011 slasher movie “Scream 4,” a role she later reprised in 2023 in “Scream VI.”

“I love you Hayden,” David Arquette, Panettiere’s co-star in “Scream 4,” wrote on social media, reacting to her death.

“Rest in peace sweet Hayden,” Melissa Barrera, who starred alongside Panettiere in “Scream VI”, posted on her Instagram Stories.

Panettiere was open about her struggles with opioid and alcohol addiction and postpartum depression in the years before her death. 

“I would have the shakes when I woke up and could only function with sipping alcohol,” she told People in July 2022.

She was hospitalized with jaundice and checked into rehab in 2020, spending eight months there.

“A doctor told me that if I didn’t stop drinking, I’d be dead within five years.”

The actress said she “felt more clear-headed than I’d ever been” when she left rehab in 2021.

Panettiere was a mom to daughter Kaya, 11, whom she shared with the retired heavyweight boxer Wladimir Klitschko.

She struck up a relationship with the ex-sportsman in 2009, becoming engaged in 2013. They separated in 2018.

Her final acting credit came in the 2026 Brandon Auman-directed psychological thriller movie “Sleepwalker,” where she starred alongside Justin Chatwin and Beverly D’Angelo.

Gun Buyback Efforts Stalled: Resistance Grows in Key State

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In a firm stand against the proposed national gun buyback program, South Australia has declared it will not allocate state funds to an initiative it believes should be entirely financed by the federal government.

According to South Australian Treasurer Tom Koutsantonis, the state remains hesitant to commit to a plan that mandates joint funding, insisting instead that the responsibility for financing should rest solely with Canberra.

Koutsantonis elaborated that South Australia finds it unfeasible to redirect funds from vital services and crucial cost-of-living areas towards a scheme propelled by federal political agendas.

“Here in South Australia, we believe we’ve maintained the right balance,” Koutsantonis expressed during an interview with ABC radio. He added, “If the Commonwealth government wishes to initiate a buyback program akin to the one implemented by John Howard, they are welcome to do so.”

Highlighting past precedents, he noted, “The buyback under John Howard’s leadership was entirely funded by the Commonwealth government.”

Koutsantonis said all states faced broader funding pressures to keep up with demand for health, disability and other frontline services.

On Sunday, Prime Minister Anthony Albanese and NSW Premier Chris Minns announced details of the state’s buyback, which is due to begin in November.

NSW is currently the only jurisdiction participating in the national scheme, which was promised after last December’s Bondi terror attack in which 15 people were killed.

Conservative governments in Queensland, Tasmania and the Northern Territory have also declined to sign up to the buyback.

Western Australia has already run its own gun buyback and has no plans for a second scheme linked to the Bondi attack.

In Victoria, former premier Jacinta Allan had previously baulked at joining the national buyback, denting Canberra’s hopes of broad state participation.

Her resignation and replacement by Ben Carroll has created uncertainty ahead of the 28 November election as the new premier weighs how far to go on firearms.

The stand-off has revived comparisons with former Liberal prime minister Howard’s 1996 post‑Port Arthur buyback, funded entirely by the Commonwealth through a temporary Medicare levy.

A selection of firearms laid out on a table.

Gun‑rights advocates say Albanese’s approach falls short of that standard and unfairly targets law‑abiding shooters while failing to address extremism and radicalisation.

Sporting shooters are among a broad range of pro‑gun groups attacking the post‑Bondi reforms at federal and state level, alongside the Coalition and One Nation.

In regional NSW, independent Barwon MP Roy Butler said the Minns government’s approach unfairly targeted farmers and sporting shooters in his vast western electorate.

“The idea that taking firearms away from law‑abiding people, farmers, sporting shooters, target shooters — that somehow that’s going to stop terrorism or impact terrorism and extremism and radicalisation is just nuts,” Butler told ABC radio.

Anti‑violence organisations, including the Alannah and Madeline Foundation, have welcomed the NSW buyback and continue to lobby other states to tighten their firearms laws.


Inside Look at Security Concerns Sparks Panic over Possible Threats to Trump’s Safety

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In the wake of his clandestine departure from the NATO summit in Turkey, President Trump seemed unfazed by the newfound public attention detailing the extraordinary security measures employed by the Secret Service to ensure his safety.

Upon being questioned by reporters about potential dangers posed by Iranian missiles, he appeared to brush off any fears with nonchalance.

“I don’t worry about anything, to be honest. Whatever it is, you know my attitude? Whatever,” Trump stated, exuding his characteristic confidence.

Despite this public demeanor, sources revealed to the Daily Mail that the looming threat weighs on him as tensions with Iran persist and new threats emerge against his life.

First Lady Melania Trump reportedly shares a mounting concern for the President’s well-being, according to a source close to her. However, she remains assured that the Secret Service is adapting to these evolving threats, maintaining vigilance to protect him amid ongoing global tensions.

‘They want to take out the US leader, me,’ Trump said at the NATO summit prior to his departure from Turkey in July, citing intelligence reports he had reviewed that morning. ‘I’m on every single one of their lists.’

So far, Trump remarked, he had ‘been a little bit lucky’ but cautioned ‘that maybe doesn’t last very long, because that’s the way it goes,’ he said prior to leaving for the summit.

Meanwhile in Tehran, billboards with threats against the First Family have been spotted in recent days. One shows images of Melania, Barron and Ivanka Trump with their eyes edited shut and the word ‘KILLED’ labeled over them, while an AI-generated video highlighted the locations that Melania likes to shop at and how would-be assassins could target her.

President Donald Trump walks from Marine One to board Air Force One in Turkey before he made the secret plane swap

President Donald Trump walks from Marine One to board Air Force One in Turkey before he made the secret plane swap

Melania, Ivanka and Barron are the targets of a new assassination threat from Iran

Melania, Ivanka and Barron are the targets of a new assassination threat from Iran

Trump allies worry that the president is being ‘misled by the threat to his life’ posed by Iran.

The idea of the president leaving a NATO summit in a catering container was ’embarrassing,’ one source close to the White House told the Daily Mail. 

The concern, another source noted, was that Iran is toying with Trump’s jumpy security team, knowing that they are extremely cautious.

Iran state media predictably used the report to mock the president’s ‘humiliation’ as a result of ‘fear of Iran’s military power’ and shared a meme of the president hiding in a food catering truck.

The details of Trump’s exit going public, one source worried, would make him less inclined to participate in the future. And reports that the CIA had low confidence in the intelligence detailing a threat to the president only confirmed suspicions from some officials that the threat was overblown.

‘Iran is really trying to assassinate the president in Turkey, a country that they have a relationship with?’ a separate source asked incredulously. 

Sources told the Washington Post that the threats against the president’s life were ‘Israeli-derived’ rather than US-generated and said it was considered ‘low-confidence’ intelligence. 

Trump’s military leadership was to blame, another source noted to the Daily Mail, suggesting that Secretary of War Pete Hegseth and General Dan Caine overreacted to the poorly sourced intelligence.

The Department of War did not respond to a Daily Mail request for comment. 

However, a senior administration official strongly disagreed with criticism of the security plans in Turkey: ‘As the president has said, he has faced numerous threats on his life, including ones from Iran, and every measure is taken to ensure his safety. There is no such thing as “overreacting” when it comes to the Commander-in-Chief’s safety – that is a moronic take.’ 

Air Force One parked on the tarmac in Ankara, Turkey, with the catering truck parked outside that carried Trump and three aides onto a decoy plane

Air Force One parked on the tarmac in Ankara, Turkey, with the catering truck parked outside that carried Trump and three aides onto a decoy plane

An AI-generated video last month highlighted the locations the First Lady likes to shop at and how would-be assassins could target her

An AI-generated video last month highlighted the locations the First Lady likes to shop at and how would-be assassins could target her

A threatening video published by The Tasnim News Agency, which has links to the Iranian military, shows how and where to potentially target First Lady Melania Trump. It notes Melania's favorite shops in New York and how to potentially poison the clothes there

A threatening video published by The Tasnim News Agency, which has links to the Iranian military, shows how and where to potentially target First Lady Melania Trump. It notes Melania’s favorite shops in New York and how to potentially poison the clothes there

Trump is normally more resistant to Secret Service orders for the sake of optics. He famously ordered agents to let him get his shoes and pause to raise his fist in defiance before exiting the stage after he was shot in the ear by a would-be assassin in Butler, Pennsylvania, in 2024.

He faced another attempted assassination at the Trump International Golf Course in West Palm Beach, Florida, in September, two months before the election. 

When he was evacuated from the White House Correspondents’ Association dinner after a gunman tried to storm the event in April, Trump adamantly lobbied agents to return to the dinner and finish the event, before finally conceding to reschedule it.

But the ongoing war in Iran has him taking threats more seriously.

‘I go by Secret Service and the military. They wanted me to go in a different flight, a different plane, for safety,’ Trump told reporters Tuesday. 

The frequent security concerns, one Washington insider noted, were shifting the conflict with Iran into more personal territory.

‘I got him before he got me,’ Trump boasted to ABC News after Ayatollah Khamenei was killed in February. ‘They tried twice. Well, I got him first.’

One source close to the White House noted that the president is more concerned about the increased threat to members of his family, particularly his 11 grandchildren.

Trump’s 19-year-old granddaughter Kai is leaving soon for the University of Miami to start her freshman year, and is set to bring her Secret Service detail with her. His 20-year-old son Barron, meanwhile, is nearby the White House attending New York University at its Washington, DC, campus – and is always surrounded by Secret Service protection. 

The idea of the president leaving a NATO summit in a catering container was 'embarrassing,' one source close to the White House told the Daily Mail

The idea of the president leaving a NATO summit in a catering container was ’embarrassing,’ one source close to the White House told the Daily Mail

Sources believe that Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth, left, and Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Generak Dan Caine, right, overreacted to the security threat in Turkey

Sources believe that Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth, left, and Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Generak Dan Caine, right, overreacted to the security threat in Turkey 

The Secret Service revealed in July that they had investigated more than 10,000 threats to its protectees in the first half of this year, the head of the agency revealed. 

And just this month, a man was caught with an illegal rifle and body armor while allegedly scouting Trump‘s Los Angeles golf club ahead of his visit there.

‘A potential tragedy was averted,’ said ATF Special Agent Kenneth R Cooper.

The president occasionally reminds Iran publicly that if anything happens to him, he has set up a fail-safe plan for revenge.

‘I’ve left instructions, if anything happens, to just literally bomb them at levels that they’ve never seen before,’ he told the New York Post in July.

The Daily Mail reached out to the White House for comment. 

West Ham’s Revitalized Transfer Revolution: New Leadership Ignites Return to ‘Academy of Football’ Glory

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Just an hour before West Ham kicked off their season, a buzz of speculation swirled among journalists inside the bustling London Stadium. Bets were being placed—who would be the first to voice discontent?

David Sullivan, the controversial former co-chair, was rumored to make an appearance, despite advice to stay away. How long would it take for West Ham supporters to vocalize their dissatisfaction? Thirty seconds? Five minutes? Perhaps when Portsmouth scored their first goal?

The fanbase, renowned for their relentless protests over the club’s management, had used every avenue—boycotts, banners, and black balloons. Yet, despite their efforts and warnings, the team now faced their first Championship season in 14 years, traveling to Burnley on Sunday. Even after Sullivan’s resignation amidst allegations of sexual misconduct, claims he refutes, his looming presence continued to cast a shadow.

However, the fans’ frustration seemed more directed at a first-half hydration break blaring with dance music, rather than the looming specter of an unwanted guest. It was clear they were intent on not letting an unwelcome presence sabotage their hopes for a fresh start.

While Sullivan may still own a significant share in the club, his grip has loosened; he no longer steers the ship nor inks the checks. A new chapter beckons for West Ham, with fresh hands at the helm.

West Ham still, incredibly, have Jarrod Bowen, who committed his future to the club despite their relegation to the Championship

West Ham still, incredibly, have Jarrod Bowen, who committed his future to the club despite their relegation to the Championship

David Sullivan (left), the unpopular co-chairman, attended the first game of the season against everyone else's best advice

David Sullivan (left), the unpopular co-chairman, attended the first game of the season against everyone else’s best advice

He can watch, as he did last Saturday, and confide in those around him that the team needs more pace, another striker and a creative midfielder, but he’s not in a position anymore to do much about it, even if his son is still angling to get some young lads on trial. Karren Brady isn’t there anymore either. ‘No more BS’ was the message on the red cards fans brandished last season, in a nod to Brady and Sullivan. They go into the season having got their wish.

And they still, incredibly, have Jarrod Bowen. Over the past three Premier League seasons, only Erling Haaland, Mo Salah, Ollie Watkins, Cole Palmer and Bruno Fernandes scored more goals than Bowen. Now, he’s playing in the Championship. Good luck, everyone.

New signing Manor Solomon, signed for £10million from Tottenham, said Bowen’s decision to stay helped convince him to make the move to east London.

‘I thought, like everyone else, that Jarrod would leave this summer and go to the Premier League, even to one of the top teams, but he decided to stay,’ said Solomon. ‘It was one of the key reasons why I decided to sign for West Ham.’

Club insiders talk of a fresh start and, at long last, finding a sense of normality. Not many football clubs are all that normal deep down but few have been less able to claim it in recent years than West Ham. Nils Koppen, the new head of recruitment, has not been at the club long but is already trying to put data-led systems in place to ensure smooth running of the transfer operation.

It’s one that’s bagged Brighton full back Joel Veltman on a free transfer, Solomon from Tottenham, and is on the verge of signing £22million Celtic midfielder Arne Engels.

‘Patient is a good word but it is, more than anything, about trying to make it right,’ explained boss Nuno Espirito Santo. ‘All the deals we want to make, the player has to come with a purpose, with a clear mindset of what we expect. We don’t have too much time but the priority is to make it right.’

It’s not always been that way.

New signing Manor Solomon, who joined for £10million from Tottenham, said Bowen’s decision to stay helped convince him to make the move to east London

New signing Manor Solomon, who joined for £10million from Tottenham, said Bowen’s decision to stay helped convince him to make the move to east London

Club insiders talk of a fresh start and finding a sense of normality. Not many football clubs are all that normal deep down but few have been less able to claim it recently than West Ham

Club insiders talk of a fresh start and finding a sense of normality. Not many football clubs are all that normal deep down but few have been less able to claim it recently than West Ham

‘Anyone who can put those processes in place will revolutionise West Ham,’ one insider told Daily Mail Sport.

This is a club that’s been so remarkably short of them. Koppen is the fourth recruitment boss in just 18 months after Tim Steidten, Kyle Macaulay and Max Hahn, so is it any wonder that the Hammers are still having to right the many, many wrongs of previous transfer windows.

Mateus Fernandes and Crysencio Summerville have been sold for the best part of £150million but there’s other deadwood that needs shifting. Nuno wants rid of Niclas Fullkrug and Jean-Clair Todibo. Brentford have enquired about full back El Hadji Malick Diouf, who only signed last summer for £20million, while Aston Villa have held talks over Aaron Wan-Bissaka.

Few signings encapsulate West Ham’s ridiculous running over recent years like that of Todibo, originally loaned in from Nice by Steidten with an obligation to buy should they stay up. By the time that came around, Steidten was gone and so was manager Julen Lopetegui. 

Todibo clashed with his replacement Graham Potter, was dropped for bad timekeeping, then refused to play in West Ham’s survival showdown against Leeds on the final day of last season under Nuno, having told him he would not play for him again. The Frenchman did not attend West Ham’s media day for this season so has a generic close-up picture of his face on the official website unlike the rest of the squad, who all posed in the new home kit. Wan-Bissaka and Fullkrug also missed it.

West Ham remain in talks with Arsenal over a move for winger Reiss Nelson and want Chelsea centre back Axel Disasi, who impressed hugely on loan last season. The Hammers are after Ireland striker Troy Parrott and are also keeping an eye on former Leicester front man Jamie Vardy as a potential back-up. How fun might that be? Vardy is nearly 40 but that didn’t stop Teddy Sheringham from firing West Ham to promotion all those years ago.

The ongoing, messy and complex boardroom struggles rumble on, too, with Czech billionaire and West Ham stakeholder Daniel Kretinsky wrestling it out with former Newcastle co-owner Amanda Staveley over the shares of David Gold’s family. Staveley has an eye on Sullivan’s, too.

Few signings encapsulate West Ham’s ridiculous running over recent years like that of Jean-Clair Todibo

Few signings encapsulate West Ham’s ridiculous running over recent years like that of Jean-Clair Todibo

Mohamadou Kante has the physicality that just might suit the rough and tumble of the Championship

Mohamadou Kante has the physicality that just might suit the rough and tumble of the Championship

Some behind the scenes are excited by the prospect of Staveley’s involvement, with one source describing her as ‘proper switched on’, yet it was Kretinsky whose pitch persuaded Bowen to stay and lead the promotion challenge.

West Ham might just have a few budding youngsters to help him, too. It had become a bit of a running gag that West Ham called themselves the ‘Academy of Football’ yet failed to hand a single full Premier League debut to a graduate of their youth system in five years from February 2020.

There won’t be one this season for obvious reasons, and one of their most recent additions to the ‘Wall of Graduates’ at their Chadwell Heath base Freddie Potts, son of club legend Steve, has just joined Club Bruges on a permanent deal. Hammers never like to see one of their own depart, especially one with that much claret and blue running through his veins.

The emergence of Lewis Orford and Mohamadou Kante, though, provides two reasons why the club felt it was worth banking the £10million for Potts. 

Orford impressed Nuno during pre-season and has been referred to behind the scenes as having a touch of Michael Carrick about him. He has been at the club since he was five. His parents, grandfather and girlfriend sat in the stands to watch him control the midfield against Portsmouth. Kante has the physicality that just might suit the rough and tumble of the Championship.

And so, despite all the upheaval and uncertainty, there was a genuine feeling around the London Stadium last Saturday that this is a club ready to embrace their fresh start.

Celebrities Mourn ‘Heroes’ Star Hayden Panettiere’s Tragic Passing

Hollywood is in deep mourning after the heartbreaking death of beloved actress Hayden Panettiere, who passed away at the age of 36.

The former star of acclaimed series like Heroes and Nashville was confirmed deceased by her representative to Us on Sunday, August 16. However, the circumstances surrounding Panettiere’s untimely death remain undisclosed at this time.

Her father, Skip Panettiere, expressed his deep sorrow in a statement, saying, “It is with profound sadness that we share the tragic passing of our beloved Hayden. She was an incredible light and a force of nature who brought immeasurable love and joy to all who knew her — and to the millions who watched her onscreen.”

Skip has requested privacy for their family “as we take the time to process this unimaginable loss.”

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The entertainment industry has faced a series of losses this year, with the deaths of some of its most cherished figures in 2026. In June, legendary music mogul Clive Davis passed away at 94 following complications from an upper respiratory infection. The sorrow continued the following month with the loss of G.R.L. member Lauren Bennett, who died at 37, and iconic singer Bonnie Tyler at 75. The hearts of many also went out with the passing of Emergency!‘s Randolph Mantooth and others from the Police series.

As news broke late Sunday, celebrities from around the world have expressed their grief and memories of the late actress.

Keep scrolling to see which stars have reacted:

David Arquette

“💔 I love you Hayden 🕊️,” Panettiere’s Scream 4 costar shared under Variety’s Instagram post regarding the actress’ death.

Melissa Barrera

The Scream VI actress wrote via her Instagram Stories, “Rest in peace sweet Hayden.”

Selma Blair

“I love you whale tail my friend,” the actress commented on Panettiere’s final Instagram post shared before her death on July 27.

Rosie O’Donnell

“Oh my god – heartbroken #hayden 😭,” O’Donnell wrote via Instagram alongside a picture of Panettiere.

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Hayden Panettiere reflected on “good times” in her final Instagram post shared prior to her death. “Good times and good friends @randallslavin ✨,” the Nashville alum captioned a black-and-white photo of herself with photographer and director Randall Slavin. The July 27 post captured Panettiere winking at the camera while Slavin, 56, wrapped his arm around […]

Bethany Joy Lenz

“There is nothing that posting pictures on the internet can do. I avoid it usually in moments like this. But I’m here with my head in my hands and I don’t know what else to do in aside from praying for her soul, which I have done and will continue,” the One Tree Hill alum shared in a lengthy Instagram tribute.

Lenz continued, “I’m crushed. I knew the wild little blonde. Was she nine? Ten? I was eighteen. She ran through the Screen Gem studio hallways at 222 E44th St. laughing and playing games in between blocking and camera rehearsals. Long, unruly curls trailing behind her.”

“She knew her lines and everyone else’s. Her intelligence was astonishing. She understood scenes and nuance and human struggle like no child I’d ever seen on camera,” Lenz said. “And she’d sit with you for a great conversation, then giggle and go play. We’d connect on and off over the years, like the cousin in the family reunion who got famous and life moved her away — but I always felt such joy seeing her when we were lucky enough to cross paths. We’d make a pact to talk soon. Lunch. Dinner. Somewhere we could curl up into a corner — but we never quite made it happen. I mostly stayed up to date through mutual friends.”

“I don’t understand how this is real. Everything seemed to be turning around. She was coming BACK to life, wasn’t she?” the actress wrote. “It’s too young and there’s still so much more life. And her daughter…. Hayden, you are surround [sic] by love. I’m sorry for every moment I didn’t reach out or check in. This can’t be real.”

“These are moments of how I knew you, in glimpses over 27 years. I don’t know how to process this. I am praying for you to know the peace of God now and always,” Lenz concluded.

Jay Shetty

“I can’t believe it. Our friendship had just begun and I was so moved by the conversation we shared earlier this year. My love and condolences to her family and fans 🙏🙏🙏,” the podcaster wrote under Variety’s Instagram post.

Greer Grammer

“Oh my god 😔 this is just absolutely devastating. I can’t believe it,” the actress commented on Variety’s Instagram post.

Tragic Loss: Beloved Star Hayden Panettiere Passes Away at 36

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Hayden Panettiere, well-known for her roles in “Heroes,” “Scream,” and “Nashville,” tragically passed away on Sunday, August 16, 2026, at the age of 36. The details surrounding her death remain undisclosed to the public.

Her father, Skip Panettiere, confirmed the heartbreaking news in a statement to ABC News. “It is with profound sadness that we share the tragic passing of our beloved Hayden,” he expressed. “She was an incredible light and a force of nature who brought immeasurable love and joy to all who knew her — and to the millions who watched her onscreen.” The family has requested privacy during this difficult time.

A dynamic talent both as a singer and actress, Panettiere began her screen career in 1996, gracing over 70 projects with her presence. Her standout performances consistently captivated audiences, leaving a lasting impact. Our heartfelt condolences go out to her family and friends.

Legendary Pitcher and Groundbreaking Surgery Namesake Tommy John Passes Away at 83

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Pitching legend Tommy John, known for the groundbreaking elbow surgery that extended his time on the field by 14 years, has passed away at 83, as confirmed by the New York Yankees.

John’s life came to an end at his residence in Bradenton, Florida. While the cause of death remains undisclosed, he had faced a prolonged battle with bladder cancer and other health issues in recent years.

In a heartfelt statement, the New York Yankees expressed their grief over John’s passing. The team highlighted his pivotal role in their roster and his cherished status among fans. His impressive persistence and post-surgery feats not only transformed countless athletes’ careers worldwide but also somewhat eclipsed his prowess on the mound, notably including two consecutive 20-win seasons with the Yankees.

Reflecting on his overall contributions, the Yankees paid tribute to John’s competitive spirit, his affinity for engaging conversations, his gracious character, and his status as both an athletic figure and a medical trailblazer. They extended their heartfelt sympathies to his family and close friends.

In August, John hinted at his health struggles when he missed the Yankees’ Old-Timers Day, sharing a message of farewell to his friends and fans who had supported him during his remarkable 26-year career.

“I will never forget you,” John said in his message posted to social media.

After suffering what had been up to then considered a career-ending injury, John, then 31, underwent ulnar collateral ligament reconstruction surgery on his left (pitching) elbow in 1974, with the revolutionary procedure being performed by Dr. Frank Jobe. The procedure was named after John and has since become commonplace, performed on thousands of players — not just pitchers — with a typical recovery time of a year to 18 months.

John, a four-time All-Star nicknamed “The Bionic Man,” went on to pitch for 14 more seasons after the surgery.

John had 124 wins in 355 games at the time of the procedure. He pitched in 405 more games, winning 164, and finishing with a career record of 288-231 with a 3.34 ERA in 760 career appearances. Besides eight seasons with the Yankees, for whom he won 91 games over two separate stints, John pitched for the Chicago White Sox, Los Angeles Dodgers, California Angels, Cleveland Indians and Oakland Athletics.

“Thanks to Dr. Jobe, who saved my arm