Even though her soon-to-be brother-in-law has withdrawn from the presidential race in Ukraine, Nashville star Hayden Panettiere and her professional boxing boyfriend have postponed their wedding once again. During a recent interview the engaged Heroes cheerleader revealed that things were still too hostile in her fiancé's homeland to be throwing a party just yet. The ABC show's producers are apparently as unhappy with the tax incentive offered for filming in Music City right now, as the west is with Putin. There is serious talk that Nashville may soon be shot in Austin, Texas instead of Tennessee.
If you ask Nashville's Hayden Panettiere why she and her pugilist fiancé Wladimer Klitschko haven't got married yet, despite being engaged for months-she'll ask you how much you know about the Crimea.
Wladimer's from the Ukraine, and that is where the two are determined to get married, but that just isn't going to happen while the state is at risk of war.
Hayden told Parade that she and Klitschko haven't been able to really even start making plans just yet, but they weren't worried about it:
"Everything that's happening in Ukraine definitely put a hold on things. But we have time."
And it's not like the couple are waiting just for Wlady's sake; during a speech to a crowd in Keiv, months before the coups, Hayden assured the protesters that she and the west stood with them (via ABC):
"The beauty of this country is breathtaking: the landscape, the beautiful churches. But nothing compares to the undeniably deep souls of the Ukrainian people.
"There is a movement happening here and we have a chance to make things right, to make things just. You have a right to a democracy.
"Your struggles and your fight is not falling on deaf ears. You are being heard. The world will hear you."
The producers of the show are also in a heated debate with the powers that be in Nashville, Tennessee, and if they don't get a better deal soon they may take Nashville to Texas.
Nashville's local Tennessean reports that the ABC showrunners and the Tenn. city-runners found themselves at an impasse during the latest rounds of negotiations:
"Legislature just approved a trimmed annual state budget that left only about $3 million in the Tennessee film incentives fund.
"That means Metro and the CVC would have to contribute more than in the past in order for the production to get closer to the $13.15 million price tag for the current season.
"So far, a gap remains...that show executives have scouted locations in Texas or Georgia."
Who cares...it's not like the ever shot The West Wing in the actual White House.
