Oh, OK, Vanessa Hudgens is only auditioning for one of the roles in Twilight 2. It’s as good as signed, though, especially since the second Twilight novel ends with everyone performing a mass singalong to a song entitled I Believe In You (Sexy Vampire Of My Heart).

Vanessa Hudgens’ Twilight signing also proves that, rather than promoting pre-martial abstinence, Twilight is really all about getting your tits and mimsy out on the internet. Hear that, Robert Pattinson? Your mimsy.

Twilight and High School Musical already have a lot in common, you know. For instance, they both share a creepily chaste pseudo-religious conservative worldview. And they both star lead actors who look like they’ve been moulded out of a single piece of plastic and then dipped head-first into a box marked ’silly hair’. And, obviously, both High School Musical and Twilight are squarely aimed at people too young to properly know the difference between a good film and an awful one yet.

But it looks as though High School Musical and Twilight might share one more thing in common, too – they both star that girl who got naked on the internet that time. Sort of. According to reports, Vanessa Hudgens is hard at work auditioning for the role of Leah Clearwater – who’s either a sassy cheerleader who believes in the power of friendship or a werewolf. It’s not like we care about this enough to find out or anything. MTV reports:

“High School Musical” starlet Vanessa Hudgens has apparently taken the next step and auditioned for the role, according to “Twilight” actress Ashley Greene. We ran into Alice herself at a Golden Globes afterparty, and she told us she’d be happy to co-star with Hudgens. “I think she’d be great,” Greene enthused.

We, too, think that Vanessa Hudgens would be great for the Twilight family. After all, she’d have great chemistry with Robert Pattinson since she’s already going out with one simpering personality-vacuum as it is. Plus, everyone knows that the final Twilight book ends with a lesbian three-way between Leah Clearwater, Kristen Stewart and the lead singer of Paramore, and Vanessa Hudgens is already way ahead when it comes to vaguely hinting at lesbianism.

We have to say, though, that Vanessa Hudgens is being extremely savvy in picking her movie roles. First she stars in a bunch of films made for bright-eyed tweens who wear purity rings, and now she’s going to star in a bunch of films for very slightly older tweens who have decided that being bright-eyed is lame but still wear purity rings and paint their fingernails black because they saw it in an Avril Lavigne video once and thought it looked cool.

You see what she’s doing? Vanessa Hudgens is growing up with her audience. Once Twilight’s audience grows up a little bit more and realises that Twilight is a bag of arses, we’re fully expecting Vanessa Hudgens to jump ship and make a movie that spoofs the stupidity of Twilight, and that should take the audience up to their late twenties. After that it’ll be 30 years of porn followed by a soul-destroying stint presenting informercials for second-hand caravans. Because that is what the audience will want. Trust us.

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