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Carrie Underwood Blows Aways 'Nashville' Star Hayden Panettiere

Kevin Mazur, WireImage

Although the love-to-hate-her character of Juliette Barnes on ABC's new musical drama "Nashville" was at first speculated by many to be based on Taylor Swift, the young woman who plays her, actress Hayden Panettiere, says the character -- or at least certain aspects of her -- are based on another country superstar: Carrie Underwood.

"Taylor's known to be a very nice person and handles herself well," Hayden told USA Today earlier this month. That's not to imply that Carrie isn't, however! Hayden clarified that one of the main things she took from Carrie was her stage presence, adding, "She's one of those girls that doesn't do the whole dancing-around-choreography thing but has that stage presence like no other. She can just stand there and be incredibly interesting."

Carrie recently weighed in on Hayden's comments and shared her own thoughts about Juliette, telling Charlotte, N.C. radio station, the New 103.7, "She definitely ... sparkles and has the big blonde hair going on ... so that's pretty accurate. As long as she says she patterns her look after me, and not a lot about the rest of the character. She's kind of the mean girl!"

"Mean girl" Juliette and the rest of the "Nashville" cast can be seen Wednesday nights on ABC. "Good Girl" singer Carrie will be seen this Thursday night (Nov. 1) on that same network, co-hosting the CMA Awards with Brad Paisley for the fifth consecutive time. Carrie is also up for Female Vocalist of the Year. The CMA Awards will air live on Nov. 1 at 8:00 PM ET on ABC.

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Hardaway74

Carrie Underwood is so humble. Her concert earnings in NJ was donated back to NJ to help the victims of Hurricane Sandy. I watch her interview with Oprah and Carrie's husband, Mike. You can tell they are both so in love with one another. Their love for GOD, reading the bible together, it's not about money, it's about giving to her fans, charity. I went to her Blown Away Tour, and she was Beautiful...Her husband was out front outside talking to people. Unbelieveable....she and Mike are truley a exsample of true love in THE BUSINESS". Carrie said she TRUSTS MIKE when he goes out, she never has to worry where he's going or doing, she trusts him. I wish the best for them, can't wait for them to start a family.

November 29 2012 at 2:15 AM Report abuse +1 rate up rate down Reply
rdrag57919

cant wait to see carrie

November 02 2012 at 9:58 AM Report abuse +1 rate up rate down Reply
artpop303

Wow! It’s cool to know that this character’s inspiration was Carrie Underwood. I love Carrie’s music so much! In fact, I’m sure I bug all my DISH coworkers since I always have her albums playing in my office. Now I’m more intrigued than ever to watch Nashville! I know I’m a little late to be getting into the season, since a few episodes have already passed, but I’ll just have to catch up. It’s lucky that my Hopper DVR’s PrimeTime Anytime feature auto-records this and everything else on the major networks during primetime hours, so I’ll still have access to the latest episodes. I can’t wait to see what Juliette’s character is all about!

October 31 2012 at 1:22 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply

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