Actress and singer Hayden Panettiere reportedly instructed security to keep her former boyfriend, Brian Hickerson, out of her Manhattan book signing connected to her memoir promotion. Multiple outlets report that the instruction was given to staff at the event location during the period when she was promoting *This Is Me: A Reckoning*.
The reports attribute the account to coverage by *The New York Times*, which describes the directive as specific. ComingSoon.net and the Daily Mail both characterize it as a request that security not allow Hickerson onto the premises during the signing. Neither outlet provides additional confirmed details about how security handled the instruction beyond the claim that he was kept out, or whether Hickerson attempted to attend.
The differing presentation is mainly in emphasis: one outlet frames the story as “security was told to keep” him out, while the other highlights that Panettiere gave “specific instruction” to the store. Both agree on the core points: the memoir promotion, the Manhattan book signing/tour context, and the alleged directive involving Hickerson.
