James Blunt Reacts to Claims He Was the Man in Hayden Panettiere's Yacht Story

James Blunt is sharing his reaction to rumors that he was the British singer Hayden Panettiere claimed she was forced into bed with on a yacht. Blunt, 52, took to X on Monday, August 24, to share a Substack blog post by journalist Dean Piper, who argued against the speculation. “In 2009, in my capacity as a showbiz columnist, I wrote an article about Hayden Panettiere and James Blunt at the amfAR charity event in Cannes,” Piper wrote. “They’d arrived together, had been flirty throughout and had gone to the afterparty together. They were photographed on a boat the next day,...

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