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Gasp! "Buffy" Cuts Her Hair!
-from E! online-
Buffy's about to cut that Spike right out of her hair. Either that or Buffy the Vampire Slayer is just taking a scissors-style poke at its old haircut-conscious network, the WB.

Whatever the case, brace yourselves, Scooby geeks: Sarah Michelle Gellar has chopped her long, blond locks for the January 8 episode of Buffy. According to a UPN press release, "In a moment of panic over her relationship with Spike, Buffy chops off her hair."

But before you start thinking Buffy went and pulled a Felicity--which, you might recall, spawned a hair-raising media frenzy and the WB's infamous "no haircut" policy--reps for Buffy say the snipping wasn't quite so drastic for the bloodsucker-battling heroine.

"It's not Keri Russell short," insists a spokeswoman for producer 20th Century Fox Television. The episode, appropriately titled "Gone," was filmed at the beginning of November, and "she cut barely five inches--it's to her shoulders," the Fox rep adds. "It looks like her hair did in the second season."

Still, the mere mention of a haircut seems to evoke memories of early 2000, when the WB's hair police issued a decree forbidding extreme haircuts from the young stars of Felicity, Dawson's Creek (news - Y! TV) and, yes, Buffy.

The reason? Felicity star Keri Russell had chopped her long, beautiful curls, which execs later blamed for Felicity's tumble in the ratings. The network suspected some viewers (guys, presumably) weren't too turned on by the new, shorter 'do. In the words of one network rep, Russell's "marketability" was "enhanced with the longer hair."

Unlike the WB, however, UPN spokeswoman Joanna Lowry says she's unaware of any network rules regarding haircuts. (Forehead wrinkles might be a different matter altogether, considering this is the Star Trek network.) She says UPN knew in advance of Gellar's lock-trimming. And no, the suits weren't too worried.

"Obviously, we were aware of the haircut, but the success of the show at this point does not hinge on Sarah Michelle Gellar's hairstyle," she says. "And we think she looks great."

Viewers will get a chance to decide for themselves January 8.
Fucking hair crazed WB loosers! Oh, wait! They weren't all upset when Cordellia cut her hair last season. TWICE! Then she bleached it. I hate the WB. They're two-sided. Just like guys. ():-)

posted by ryryguy @ 4:33 AM