HEROES actress HAYDEN PANETTIERE has criticised the U.S. for imposing strict age limits on teenagers - branding the legal drinking age of 21 as "ridiculous". The 18-year-old star insists she is much happier in Britain where the legal age limit on buying alcohol is 18 and she is able to get served in bars. Panettiere insists America's age restrictions are old-fashioned and in desperate need of reform. She says, "I can buy porn or kill someone in war but I can't have a glass of wine. If I could change one thing about America, it would be its ridiculous age limits on things.

Now ordinarily when some smug little Hollywood child of privilege dares to criticize the Good Ol' U. S. of A., I consider them to be fighting words. Time to put on the foil and kick their pinko asses back to France. But in this instance, I have to say I agree with Hayden here. Who the hell do we think we are, telling hot celebrity jailbait they can't drink legally? How's a sportsmut website writer supposed to seduce a barely legal starlet if he can't get her drunk? If Hayden wants porn, she wants firearms and she wants to get liquored up on Two-buck Chuck Merlot I think she's earned the right through the countless hours of TV entertainment and blogging fodder she's given the world. To deny her this is simply asking for her to break the law. When you outlaw 18 year old drinking, only 18 year old outlaws will drink.

Now if we can just do something about that age of consent law...