Looks like there was something to it when people were sensing the creepy “you can’t date him, he’s your uncle” feeling on Heroes.

Hayden Panettiere and Milo Ventimiglia have been outed as an item.  I really don’t know how to feel about this.  So much pretty.  So much famous.  So much rich.   I can’t figure out if this is weird or cute.

Let’s lay it out:

CUTE: They’re both apple-cheeked and attractive.

WEIRD: He’s 30, she’s only 18.

CUTE: Singing and acting babies.

WEIRD: If they got married and she hyphenated her last name, it would have 21 letters.

CUTE: They can nuzzle on the couch while running lines together.

WEIRD: When he was learning to drive a car, she was four.

Thoughts?

I always thought I’d make a shitty actor.

Not only can I not write in any other voice than my own, but I can’t imagine trying to embody a character with his own personality quirks and affectations. Hats off to those who can actually slip into another persona.

But I’m not an actor, lucky for everyone. I did, however, take notice of some newer-on-the-scene actors and noticed how weird it is to see them the way they were before they got haircuts and changed their appearance to portray different characters. There are only two, because I don’t necessarily feel like scouring the internet for pictures of people all day. But these two stuck out.

First up, there’s Penn Badgley from Gossip Girl. Unless you’ve been stalking him for years, you know him like this:

Nattily attired and freshly shorn. If you could smell him, it’d probably be a bouquet of honeysuckle, chamomile and Smirnoff Ice.

Then there’s Penn as he was in The Bedford Diaries, which was apparently on The CW some time ago.

Hello hair! I don’t know if he had been hanging out with Josh Groban too much during an impressionable phase, or what. It’s both shocking and heartbreaking. But it’s nothing compared to this next doozy.

Apparently Penn’s a veteran of the WB/CW scene, as he had a role on a show called Do Over. Which, of course, I’ve never heard of. Have you?

Obviously, this is a much younger Penn. Since then, facial hair has evened out and, presumably, complexions have cleared up. Still, the hair is too much. I can’t think of who it reminds me of, even after Google Imaging the terms “billowy hair” and “80s rock star” (although, for the record, you could do worse by spending your time by looking at those search results).

I don’t know if I’d consider Penn’s transformation as “getting into character” as much as it is “the end of an awkward adolescence.” Still, it’s weird to look at, right?

Tomorrow, we’ve got another lucky actor. I was going to include him in this post, but I was all “why put them in one post when you can put them in two, thereby creating the illusion of more content.”

A scene from last night’s Project Runway…

Michael Kors: That looks like Barney Rubble.

Maggie and Kyle, turning to each other: Trouble?

I then spent the rest of the episode swearing that if Rami didn’t win it would be a travesty of justice and the end of Project Runway and me forever. His candy dress was one of the best-looking things I’ve ever seen on the show. Thankfully, I didn’t have to write any angry letters.

I’m not sure I would’ve booted Elisa if I were the judges. Sure, her dress was gross-looking, but this is at least the second time that Sweet P has brought out something that looks like crumpled paper and in no way fit, at all. And it would have been thematically appropriate to get rid of someone with “sweet” in her name. What do you think?

Lookin’ at you, Vance and Liz.

• Conan and David bearded it up last night when their shows returned.
• Omarosa talks about her return to the Celebrity Apprentice.
• Fox is shuffling its mid-season schedule again.
• Tila Tequila. Again.
• The main guy behind Brothers and Sisters has been “ousted.” His words not mine.
• They’re casting for a Gossip Girl reality show.
• Jeez… they canceled the Serbian Big Brother after three evicted contestants got killed.
• Cher and her daughter Chastity will be working on a reality show.
• Gloria Reuben is back on ER.
• Are TV theme songs dead?
• Some dude says .
• The Baltimore Sun ain’t happy with its portrayal on The Wire.