In news that I should feel guilty about quietly rejoicing over, Hayden Panettiere and her hulk of a man, world heavyweight boxing champion Wladimir Klitschko, have broken up. Hayden, 21, and Klitschko, 35, both issued statements about each other that were so gracious that I felt momentarily sorry for them. Then I realized that Hayden grates my last nerve and that I find Klitschko dreamy. Maybe he’ll go for someone closer to his age next time instead of messing with young starlets. These two have been together about two years and the last we heard from Hayden she was bringing up their sex life in a TV interview.
After two years of dating, Hayden Panettiere and Ukrainian heavyweight boxing champion Wladmir Klitschko are calling it quits, PEOPLE has learned exclusively.
“Even though we’ve decided splitting up is best for both of us, we have an amazing amount of love and respect for each other and remain very close friends,” says the Scream 4 actress, 21.
Klitschko, 35, the reigning IBF, IBO and WBO heavyweight world champion, cites the physical distance as a stumbling block for the couple.
“We had a great time together, but it’s not that easy to manage a relationship between two continents,” he says. “I have a lot of respect for Hayden as a person and as a friend, and I believe we’ll keep our friendship even after the separation.”
The two most recently appeared together at the Tribeca Film Festival for the premiere of the documentary Klitschko, about Wladmir and his brother Vitali’s boxing careers.
[From People]
I’m just surprised they lasted as long as they did. They may have broken up briefly around this time last year, only to reunite again. So was it Hayden or Wladimir that did the dumping? I’m thinking she wanted more of a commitment and he wasn’t ready. Still, she’s young. She’ll rebound with the next much older guy soon enough.
Photos are from 4/24/11, 3/12/11 and 9/25/10. Credit: WENN.com
The height difference is seriously disturbing. They don’t look like they fit together at all. It’s odd. But I think it’s great they said such nice things about each other. We’ll see if she acts the same as when she and Milo broke up.
Gee…was it the age difference, the height difference, the language difference?
She was tired of picking naval lint out of her teeth so she broke it off…the relationship.
Just noticed – she fixed her eyebrows – yay! It always bugged me to look at them.
This is my shocked face. :-/
It’s weird, but I feel sad about this. I got used to them together.
They do look like an odd couple. But if you notice, their knees and waists seem pretty on par. His torso is so freaking huge that he dwarfs her! Odd…
<—- Waiting for the porn video to be leaked.
So, what you’re saying is that this beautiful HUMONGOUS man that probably doesn’t speak english, likes annoying blondes and apparantly doesn’t have very high standards for them is SINGLE?
so, Y’all may not see me for a while. no reason.
Guess the altitude was too much for Hayden to handle.
I was hoping for babies. Ha! He’s a playboy and got caught. Kind of strange that this small young woman thought she could control such a man.
I’m wondering if they broke up because she wanted more, but at the same time why? she’s only 21 and seems to be a serial monogamist…she should just be 21 and single and stop trying to rush it.
@ Iggles – Uh, her knees look about six inches under his and she is on five inch heels. Her hips also look a good 5-6 inches lower than his.
I do agrees, though, I got used to them also. Freakish, but harmless.
@the_blonde_one- ROFLMOL! But you probably won’t be reading this for a while. I get the feeling you’ll be otherwise occupied….
I thought they looked very sweet as a couple. So what if there’s a big height difference, or big age difference (at 21, I doubt Hayden was looking for commitment, maybe he was looking for it and he was just not ready), I think in a weird way it works.
14 years of difference. ugh. That’s a whole world of differences and all.
It’s also very gross to me.
@the blond one: trying to be dumb on purpose? what makes you think he probably doesn’t speak English? too much work to view a video on you tube? what an idiotic comment…
Sorry but this was obviously another “let’s pretend to hook up for more press” relationship. There is no part of it that makes any sense at all.
I hate to stereotype, but almost every Russian I know is kind of a perv/sleeze… Russian mail order brides and all… I dunno, it’s hard to say. I’m just saying I know a few Russians and I wouldn’t trust them with a 10 foot pole (lol I know I combined two different phrases). Anyway, she’s probably better off because he’s probably a sleeze. and btw, you’re probably just stereotyping that all women want commitments and all men run away from them. I was actually in a few scenerios where that was not the case (quite the contrary in fact). And I’m not nearly as striking or socially elite or whatever and pantlklajsdkfla. So yeah…
That last picture of them side-by-side is just weird. Then again what about all those women that go after basketball players? The graphic images how they do the horizontal mambo is just disturbing, lolz. Much better to be with someone close to one’s height for optimal gratification. 😛
@ja, see that amuses me. I just liked looking at his pretty picture- not invested enough to need to go see youtube: it’s was a fantasy. why didn’t you take as hysterical issue with the idea (in MY HEAD) of her being an annoying blonde? or that(IN MY HEAD) he has no standards? get a grip. o, and just in case: don’t search the front pages of the news= I’m not REALLy going to go track him down.
Who?
Did anyone else catch the insane amounts of irony in @FizXGirl’s comment?
She was probably getting to much neck aches so she dumped him.
Good. I think they were happy together but they always looked pretty grotesque to me. Dude though, Celebitchy, “dreamy?” Physically I can understand, but that hatchet face!…
@DetRiotgirl
I am Russian and I remember seeing tons of anti-Russian crap here during the Oksana/Mel situation, and someone would call all Russian women mail order brides, and I would tell them off, and then people would be like, “yay, good for you, go tolerance,” but the person who originally made the racist remark didn’t get flagged or anything. I’m not a racist, but can you imagine if I said, “Oh, man…this Jennifer Lopez. You know, I’ve never met a Puerto Rican I can trust…” Oh god, my IP would get blocked SOOOOOOO fast. But I think that the general view of most people is that Russian and Middle Eastern people are fair game when it comes to racist remarks.
But you know what, I’m not going to get pissy anymore. So, to fizxgirl or whatever her name is…yes, you shouldn’t trust us. All of my twenty brothers are all drug dealing mobsters, and my sisters are all mail order brides and prostitutes. Yes, please, don’t trust us. I would say more, but my English no good… plus, I think I smell an American man’s wallet outside, I better go chase after him so I can get a green card…
@DetRiotgirl:
Definitely the first thing I honed in on…
Next!
She is so damn annoying to me. And I don’t find him attractive at all, so I guess this entire thing is just a big fat “Oh well” in my book.
Oh no! I really liked them. Cute, harmless couple that seemed to be really in love despite (height) differences.
But I think that the general view of most people is that Russian and Middle Eastern people are fair game when it comes to racist remarks.
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Try being Italian and Greek – people have no problem commenting that your dad’s in the mob and you like it Greek style.
What I really love is the “I hate to stereotype, but Imonna do it big time right now” thing that fizxgirl pulled. Like stating you hate to stereotype makes it OK that you did. It doesn’t.
no no, you don’t understand… it’s ok because everybody knows Russians have no soul!
@fizixgirl314
I don’t know if you’re trying to smooth over your racist comment with humor here, but you don’t have the communication skills for that. Bye-bye, now.
oh please, I really don’t give a “four letter word” about what you think. my apathy is so high I am having trouble typing up this post. So yeah, take a valium… it ain’t that serious.
Are we going to talk about racism here?
It’s never good to generalize 😉
It not the Russian, Klichko – the Ukrainian! How many it is possible to confuse!
Does people actually comment on this site without knowing at least something about what they are talking about? Klichko speaks 5 languages, one of which is english, so funny reading those comments saying he doesnt speak english etc, get a grip people and live your own lives and stop bitching about people you dont even know!!!
There is apparently a lot to identify about this. I consider you made certain nice points in features also. Could you update me with your next post please?