The High School Musical kids have graduated. And what does that mean? For Zac Efron it means becoming a star in his own right.

For the majority of the other High School Musical cast it means getting a supermarket job and spending day after day waiting for a vague recognition from customers that never comes. And for Vanessa Hudgens it means getting naked and slapping her tits and clodge about with wild abandon in every single film she ever makes.

Really. Vanessa Hudgens said so, “if the movie calls for it.” Which it will, because it’ll almost certainly be porn.

Remember when those naked Vanessa Hudgens photos turned up on the internet? Yes, so do we. It was a much simpler time back then – before Miley Cyrus came along with her adult boyfriend and her love of taking her clothes off with such deadening regularity that we’ve all become desensitised to it.

We’re not the only ones who miss the good old days of seeing Vanessa Hudgens naked, either. Vanessa Hudgens seems to miss it just as much. In fact – if you ignore the three films she made where her sole contribution was singing a procession of blank-eyed songs about believing in yourself – getting naked on the internet is the only thing that Vanessa Hudgens has done in her entire life.

And now that her fellow former tweensters are growing up and starring in bad remakes of Big with the crap one from Friends, it’s possibly time for Vanessa Hudgens to revisit her glory days. MSNBC reports:

“I will show nudity in a film when the time is right,” Hudgens, 20, said in an interview with E! Online. “Right now, I wouldn’t feel comfortable doing it. When the time’s right, if it’s an amazing movie that I’m really passionate about and that’s what it calls for, then we’ll see.”

Did you hear that? If, in several years’ time, Vanessa Hudgens is offered a role in a film that’s obviously beyond her artistic capabilities and calls for a fleeting glimpse of sideboob or a blurred shot of a buttock, then there’s a slim chance that Vanessa Hudgens will disrobe for it. SHE’S DEFINITELY GETTING NAKED AGAIN! PARTY TIME!!

Although, to throw water on our own alarmingly horny bonfire, what’s the point? We’ve already seen Vanessa Hudgens naked once, so it’s hardly going to get anyone excited to hear that she’s going to do it again. Not unless she’s decided to shave her pubes into the shape of a dragon or plans to show us a part of her naked body that we haven’t seen before, like the back of one of her knees or the underside of a toenail or something. Because then we’d be there like a shot.

And before you say it – no, Vanessa Hudgens publicly declaring her willingness to be naked on film isn’t a sign of desperation at all. In fact the last person to do anything remotely like this was Jessica Simpson, and she’s one of the most famous women on Earth. Oh, wait, no, it isn’t 2004 any more. Oh God, Hudgens, you’re doomed.

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There was never any spontaneous singing though – and a good thing too, because that would have been super gay – like East High gay. Speaking of which – you know how there’s been a pleasant calm in the world since everyone everywhere knows the cast graduated, and so can’t make any more sequels?

Well no more – Disney has just committed to HSM4.

Well Disney’s just signed on to make High School Musical 4 – but don’t worry because they know that the three they’ve already delivered have been largely regarded as unacceptable by anyone who’s not a blind or deaf woman.

To resolve this issue the next instalment is going to be sci-fi and set one billion years in the future. Everyone will still sing, but the song topics will revolve around how the sun is expanding into a red giant, and how are the kids gonna save their gymnasium from getting swallowed by it. The gym, incidentally, is where they took state like 1000 years in a row. That’s why they’re all so attached.

Don’t expect to see Vanessa Hudgens in a skin-tight, tin foil space suit though – the cast will be all new. Also don’t actually expect to see outer space at all. What you can expect is this – we peeled it off of Reuters:

“Walt Disney Co’s teen hit franchise “High School Musical” is coming back for a fourth time — but with a new cast of characters, the company said on Tuesday. “High School Musical 4″ will debut on the Disney Channel in 2010 — marking a return to its original cable home after the third instalment danced into movie theaters in 2008. Disney Channel said in a statement the story would feature a music- and dance-filled love triangle set against cross-town rivalry between fictional high schools in Albuquerque, N.M.”

Notice any talk of laser swords and space monsters is conspicuously absent. That’s pretty lame if you ask us. Still though – the script can’t be finalized yet. Lets throw some donkeys with jet-packs in there or something. They could maybe be on a quest to save their robot queen – that plot would really write itself.

Just do it, stupid writers.

Why people even make movies without laser swords, space monsters and jet-packing mules is beyond us. For instance, think of how much better HSM 3 would have been if Troy had to chop everyone at his prom in half real quick because a weird looking lizard beast was hiding inside of a classmate.

Had that been the case, Slumdog Millionaire probably wouldn’t be getting so much press right now.

With that, we think you’ll probably agree.

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And, um, that’s about it. But, sadly, the Twilight sequel doesn’t require any of these talents, so Vanessa Hudgens won’t star in it any more. Vanessa Hudgens has denied rumours that she auditioned for the role of Sexy Naked Lady Werewolf 4 in Twilight 2.

Twilight fans will be thrilled – they never wanted an embarrassingly cheesy tween star like Vanessa in their movie to begin with. No, Twilight is all about embarrassingly faux-rebellious tween stars. And silly-haired pipecleaners. And that’s how it’ll stay, damnit!

We’re having serious reservations about Twilight 2, you know. Sure, we could take the fact that the director had changed, and the casting issues didn’t really bother us too much. And we only cried for about two hours when we found out about Robert Pattinson’s haircut. But this?

This is just beyond a joke. Let us explain. On Monday we told you that High School Musical star Vanessa Hudgens had auditioned for Twilight 2, and we were thrilled. It would have been such a perfect fit. Both High School Musical and Twilight share a common theme – that pre-marital sex is evil.

True, that theme was more explicit in Twilight – where it was suggested that if you have sex too young a dreary vampire with hair that looks like a dog wound will kill you – but it would have been dealt with more fully in High School Musical had the writers found a good rhyme for ‘abortion clinic’ in the song Bop To The Top.

But that’s not the point. Vanessa Hudgens was going to be starring as a werewolf in the sequel to Twilight, and we were so prepared. We’d found our old Vanessa Hudgens High School Musical doll, stripped her naked like in those internet pictures, glued some of our pubes to her face to make her look a bit more werewolfy and forced her to have nine-hour makeout sessions with our Robert Pattinson Twilight doll. Those were probably the happiest moments of our lives.

But now? Now Vanessa Hudgens has taken our heart and stamped all over it. She’s denied doing any Twilight 2 auditions at all, the big witch. Showbiz Spy reports:

It was claimed earlier this week that Hudgens was gunning for the role of female werewolf Leah Clearwater in the eagerly-awaited second film in Stephenie Meyer’s vampire franchise. But a representative for Hudgens has dismissed the speculation. The spokesperson said, “I don’t know anything about the audition. As far as I know, it’s just a rumor.”

It’s hard news to swallow, we know. That girl from the films you refuse to watch because you’re not a 12-year-old girl won’t be starring in the films you refuse to watch because you’re not a 14-year-old girl. Somehow, together, we’re going to get through this.

But can you really believe what Vanessa Hudgens’ spokesperson said? After all, it was a Twilight castmember who reported Vanessa’s audition in the first place. So maybe all isn’t as it seems. Which is why we think it’s much more likely that Vanessa Hudgens did audition for Twilight 2 but was so abominably bad that she got turned down.

Either that or Vanessa Hudgens went to the Twilight audition, realised that she’d have to spend four months sucking in her cheeks, wearing a silly amount of eye make-up, staring off into the middle-distance in the mistaken belief that it made her look deep and listening to piss-awful Paramore songs on repeat until her ears started to bleed, and turned the role down.

Either way, we’re heartbroken.

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So what’s number one at the US weekend box office today? A highbrow critical darling? A well-received edgy comedy? Any of the new horror movies? No. It’s sodding High School Musical 3, isn’t it. Again.

That means that the stars of High School Musical 3 are officially bigger than Seth Rogen and Angelina Jolie combined. Perhaps to reassert their popularity, in their next movies Seth Rogen will sing a number of songs about believing in yourself and Angelina Jolie will take a naked picture of herself and post it on the internet. But not the other way round, though – that would be horrible. Angelina Jolie really can’t sing.

High School Musical 3 is the number one movie at the weekend box office for the second week running, proving that if there’s one thing that children like more than dressing up as mutilated corpses and threatening to deface strangers’ property unless they’re given confectionery, it’s watching Zac Efron sing uplifting songs about the power of friendship. No wonder this planet’s so messed up.

This last week has seen some of the hardest-fought movie promotion we think we’ve ever seen. But how effective has it been? Let’s find out with the US weekend box office top five…

1 - High School Musical 3 (Level of weekend box office movie promotion: we don’t care. High School Musical 3’s continued box office success has dramatically slumped in the weekend box office has probably pushed the cast’s acceptance of direct-to-DVD erotic thrillers as a primary source of income back by about five years. That means that we’ll have to put up with the inevitable Moderately Risky Side-Boob era, but that seems to be working out OK for Jessica Alba, doesn’t it) $15,035,000

2 - Zack And Miri Make A Porno (Level of weekend box office movie promotion: that one time that Kevin Smith told everyone that he broke a toilet with his bottom recently. That’s literally all we have to say on the matter) $10,682,000

3 - Saw V (Level of weekend box office movie promotion: none. Saw V’s continued success proves that you don’t need a controversial title or a frighteningly ubiquitous media presence to make a movie a success – you just need a couple of scenes of people cutting off their own hands in horrifically graphic detail. Listen and learn, God And Gays: Bridging The Gap) $10,110,000

4 - Changeling (Level of weekend box office movie promotion: frightening. To make Changeling a success, Angelina Jolie has done everything from rub her boob on a baby’s face to arming her children with daggers. Sad to say, the plan wasn’t a complete success, and Changeling’s lack of a weekend box office number one title can probably be put down to the three whole seconds that Angelina Jolie’s smug face wasn’t plastered all over every single newspaper, TV show and magazine in the world two weeks ago on Tuesday. Whoops) $9,407,000

5 - The Haunting Of Molly Hartley (Level of weekend box office movie promotion: Since we’ve never heard of The Haunting Of Molly Hartley, we’ll say zero. Now, if the movie’s star Haley Bennett had got fat and destroyed a bathroom while breastfeeding a baby whose hands she’d just chopped off, it’d be a different matter entirely. Haley Bennett is an idiot) $6,009,000

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Zac will be making a welcome return to our cinema screens in the autumn with the third installment of Disney’s High School Musical.

But not before telling us just how great being Zac Efron is. He said:  

"I'm loving it. I'm having a blast. I'm in a good place and really excited to be where I am."

That’s nice for Zac. Now also reports that Zac is having to get used to being followed around by a ‘gaggle’ of adoring girls. He said:

"The parents are the ones who want the pictures; the girls are too shy. I can pretty much go anywhere – I just have to wear sunglasses."

We can totally sympathise with Zac there. It’s not nice being surrounded by a group of girls – be it a gaggle or otherwise – and yet every morning they come, loitering outside hecklerspray HQ trying to catch a glimpse of the faces behind the words in the vain hope they might be equally as rewarding as the articles they read on a daily basis. Can't you just let us get on with our work?

Zac continued:

"But there's no way that I'd avoid my fans. I like making them happy."

Yep, Zac Efron is a young, freakishly handsome and successful man. Zac is so beautiful, in fact, that when he walks past a female – be it any female – she will instinctively open her legs with such ferocity that her pelvis literally displaces itself (that’s how we imagine it, at least).

In fact, if Zac was to walk down Oxford Street on a sunny afternoon the scene would resemble Gandhi’s Salt March.

But girls have not always been so easy for Zac, as he explains of his time back at school:

"I wasn't the skater dude or anything. I tried really hard in school. I got good grades. I was in advanced classes so, if anything, you'd probably call me a nerd. Seriously, I was the short kid in high school. I didn't get much attention from the chicks. I was, like 5ft 6in tall. But as soon as I left and started working, then I started to grow up a little bit. I realise that I got very lucky so, thank you, everyone out there (arms outstretched)!"

So not only is he young, good-looking, with a successful career, he is also an academic success too!

There’s only one word for a man like that, can anyone think of it?

Read More – High Sschool musical star wasn't always so hot – Now Magazine 

All reality show topics have been covered, asphyxiated, beaten to a bloody, lifeless pulp and thrown into the East River. Oh, wait. That’s just the blissful recurring dream we keep having. Yeah, no, the reality TV thing is pumping out more hopeless poppycock than ever. Today’s proof of that is the new reality series Nick Lachey has in the works for MTV. It’s pretty much High School Musical with artsy musical type kids spontaneously bursting into song and dance in real life.

So, yeah, essentially your worst nightmare comes roaring to life.

Nick Lachey? More like Nick Cliché! Haha… ha… ha. Ahem. But seriously folks, the man really seems to have burrowed nicely into the rotting abscess of the entertainment world that is reality television. And who can blame him, what with the happiness and success his first show with then-wife Jessica Simpson, Newlyweds, that chronicled their new marriage, and arguably the demise of their relationship. So, of course Nick wanted more of that good stuff. But where to go from there?

Well, we didn’t think it could be done, but Nick Lachey has come along to prove us wrong just like he always does when it comes to discovering new creative selling-out-edness (what? It’s a word). He's come up with a reality TV show that hasn't been done yet. And since there aren’t any original ideas for reality shows left, so people are combining different things to come up with new ones, like Are You Smarter than a Survivor Apprentice Dancing with Pussycat Idols on the Surreal Ice.

Thus, Nick Lachey's new show is a hybrid of High School Musical meets Laguna Beach, meets True Life. The show will follow students at Nick Lachey's former high school, The School for Creative and Performing Arts in Cincinnati. MTV executive VP of series development and programming, Tony DiSanto, made the following statement about the show. It's got us jazzed as heck, folks:

"The stories and relationships are all set to music that's organic in what's going on in the school and also performed by the kids… This is a genre-busting, creative experiment I'm really excited about."

So, expect lots of musical performances and impromptu dance-offs in the show. Throw in a little disco dance fighting and we might be persuaded to check it out. Or not. We firmly stand by our belief that reality shows should involve only vicious animal attacks, 1,000 lb people being lifted from houses by cranes, and anything hosted by that wacky Bob Saget. Those are the only real reality shows.

Holla with us, people.

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Well you can't because – contrary to rumours – the Vanessa Hudgens sex tape does not exist.

That's right, there is no Vanessa Hudgens sex tape, so you'll never get to see what Vanessa Hudgens looks like when she's having sex. Unless, you know, you carefully print and cut out all those naked Vanessa Hudgens pictures from the internet, stick naked pictures of yourself next to them and make a sort of ramshackle flick-book with them. That kind of works.

Ahem. We heard.

Now that Miley Cyrus has been exposed as a seatbelt-shunning bitch from hell, people have started to forget about the Tween Scene's original scandalbasket, Vanessa Hudgens. And that's terrible, because when 18-year-old girls from wholesome teenage musicals with deliberate moral centres take naked photos of themselves that accidentally get onto the internet – and then they quickly follow them up with some vaguely lesbian photos – it should be applauded, not condemned as filth.

But try telling that to Disney, which nearly dropped Vanessa Hudgens from High School Musical 3 until it had a change of heart and tentatively signed Vanessa up for the movie. However, word quickly got around recently that High School Musical 3 wasn't the only movie that Vanessa Hudgens would be in – there was also the Vanessa Hudgens sex tape movie.

According to reports, the Vanessa Hudgens sex tape featured Vanessa spread-eagled naked in front of a Christmas tree saying preposterous double-entendres like:

"I want Santa to come up my chimney because I've been a good little girl this year".

Chimney? Chimney? Because it's made of brick and twice a year you pay a dirty-faced cockney urchin to shove an extendable brush up there? That doesn't make any sense.

But of course it doesn't make any sense, because Vanessa Hudgens didn't actually say that. And she didn't say it because the Vanessa Hudgens sex tape doesn't exist. The story originally appeared last September on barely-read, fractionally amusing Onion rip-off website Pugbus, as Portable Planet reports:

There are multiple reports that she made a naughty tape the day she took those photo as well.  Ick. There’s only one little problem. It’s completely untrue. The story actually originated last year Postcards from the Pug Bus, which is a satire website. The Vanessa Hudgens “quote” comes from their 100% made-up story… The bottom of the each page of the website reads: “The fine print: the editorial content on this page is fictional. It is presented for entertainment purposes only. We cannot be held responsible for the actions of anyone who takes this sort of thing seriously.”

Sorry perverts, if you want to see a Vanessa Hudgens sex tape you're going to have to wait until her career dries up and she's reduced to doing tawdry porn shoots in rented motel rooms for $50 a throw, just like the rest of us have to.

But still, if we can't see a real Vanessa Hudgens sex tape, then maybe this imaginary Vanessa Hudgens sex tape will be the next best thing. Imagine that, a sex tape that doesn't actually exist.

God, if only Gene Simmons had that idea first.

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Debunked: High School Musical’s Vanessa Hudgens Naughty Tape Doesn’t Exist – Portable Planet 

Yesterday High School Musical star Zac Efron was rushed to hospital for an emergency appendectomy. Fortunately, Efron's appendix was removed before it burst and could do serious damage to the teen sensation's innards.

But it was a close call. At one point during surgery, up to three of Zac Efron's hairs went slightly out of place – marking the most distressing point of his entire moon-eyed life so far.

It might be easy to mock the stars of High School Musical, but we'll say this – ripping off Grease and filling it full of sub-Britney songs about going your own way because you're special inside doesn't half take it out on your internal organs.

Why, just last week, Corbin Bleu barfed up both of his adrenal glands because of the stress of belting out Get'cha Head in the Game again and again, and now Zac Efron's appendix has gone all doolally as well.

Yesterday Zac Efron – the boy from High School Musical who looks like a creepy ventriloquist's dummy that's come to life and carved a six-pack into his own gut with an unfolded paperclip – was rushed to Cedars-Sinai medical centre in Los Angeles in agony.

Turns out he had appendicitis. and real appendicitis too, not the weird drunk-too-much-and-need-a lie-down Lindsay Lohan appendicitis that you recover from in less than a day. E! Online reports:

The High School Musical star underwent an emergency appendectomy Tuesday at Los Angeles' Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, E! News has confirmed. "He had his appendix removed and is recuperating," Efron's rep said. 

We're shocked – like many people we didn't realise that Zac Efron had a functioning set of internal organs. We assumed that his torso was either full of kittens or that it was just made of solid plastic all the way through.

It's unknown whether Zac Efron's appendix removal will affect the filming of the just-announced High School Musical 3 movie, although it's thought that songwriters are currently penning contingency tunes like I Dropped My Pencil (When I bend Over It Hurts So Much That I Feel Sick) and the anthemic Nurse, My Bedpan's Full Again, with Hollywood choreographers banking on the next big dance sensation involving writhing around the floor clutching your abdomen and making a noise like a wounded animal.

And we feel for Zac Efron, we really do – his unblemished body will now have a dirty great scar sliced across it. But, hey, at least chicks dig scars, right? Especially ones that you can point at and say, "and I got this one when my tummy-wummy got all hurty-wurty and I cried."

But let's just hope that the same fate doesn't await Zac Efron's co-star Vanessa Hudgens – an appendix scar would really wipe out her inevitable professional pornography career before it ever really got going.

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Zac Efron Busts a Surgical Move – E! Online 

But not any more. Disney has just confirmed that High School Musical 3 – the final movie in the High School Musical trilogy – will be a full feature release that people will have to save up their pocket money and pay to see in cinemas.

Needless to say, the news has excited young High School Musical fans and creepy middle-aged perverts who've just worked out that they'll be able to see the outline of Vanessa Hudgens' boobs on a gigantic screen alike. 

High School Musical has, by all accounts, been a sensation for Disney. It spent all that money painstakingly animating crap like Treasure Planet and Home On The Range and all it really needed to do was find a bunch of kids that looked as if they'd been made in a sinister injection-moulding factory and get them to sing songs about how everyone is special on the inside on a TV movie to make the cash come rolling in.

Now people put on their own High School Musical plays, listen to High School Musical CDs, play with High School Musical action figures and try to look like High School Musical star Zac Efron by varnishing their faces, wearing plastic wigs and pouting into a mirror for days at a time. We expect. 

But soon it'll be time to say goodbye to High School Musical so that its young stars can move on with their lives and make that softcore pornography DVD they've been teasing us with for so long. And, because the old 'everyone in High School Musical is so stupid that they'll have to repeat classes until they're 40' ruse won't work, the upcoming High School Musical 3 will be the series' final outing.

But what an outing it'll be, because High School Musical 3 will be the first to get a full theatrical release. People reports:

All six of the High School Musical stars have officially signed on for High School Musical 3: Senior Year, Walt Disney Studios Motion Picture Productions announced Monday. Zac Efron, Vanessa Hudgens, Ashley Tisdale, Corbin Bleu, Monique Coleman and Lucas Grabeel will star in the third and final instalment, a feature film. Director Kenny Ortega tells PEOPLE he's excited about working one last time with the cast… "I am the luckiest guy in the world and I know it," Ortega says. "This will be our last time together and I love working with these kids so much. It's going to be great."  

But what about the plot of High School Musical 3? Somewhat predictably, it will centre on Zac Efron and Vanessa Hudgens coming to terms with the fact that they'll soon have to leave school for different colleges – which we presume to be the Academy For Dim-Looking Ladyboys and Naked Slut Central respectively – and deciding that the only way to get over their heartache is to sing plenty of family-friendly songs about how everyone is special on the inside at each other.

And then it'll be over, unless of course High School Musical takes the Saved By The Bell route and makes a High School Musical: The College Years film and a High School Musical: The New Class film where one of the original stars has inexplicably become a teaching assistant during the day and a disgusting internet sex tape star at night. 

Which, you know, wouldn't be too much of a leap.

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It's Official: Cast Returns for High School Musical 3 – People