Like virtually every other girl in her late teens who has a myspace and/or facebook account, High School Musical star Vanessa Hudgens has pictures where she’s pretending to kiss her friends. They’re not really scandalous, but probably add to the shame she must feel that her nude pictures were leaked. It still seems like a staged photo leak that was rather convenient for her considering how much it raised her name recoginition.

Hudgens seems to have taken more than one set of nude photos. She was said to have e-mailed nude photos of herself to Drake Bell two years ago. They might have been these photos that have been circulating, or they could have been different ones.

Now there’s a rumor that the 18 year-old actress made a sex tape with a Christmas theme, in which she wore a red thong with mistletoe on it and said “I want Santa to come up my chimney because I’ve been a good little girl this year.” That sounds too good to be true and I bet it’s a fake store. She does seem like an exhibitionist and it could be possible that there’s a sex tape, but I doubt it. (Update: story originated on a satirical site and is indeed not true.)

Hudgens has canceled an appearance scheduled for Thursday on The Tonight Show. There was no reason given, but the head for the clothing line she represents, Eckom praises how she dealt with the nude photo situation:

“More power to her,” Marc Ecko, founder and chief creative officer of Marc Ecko Enterprises, tells PEOPLE. “She made a mistake and has apologized for it. I’m just glad no one’s leaked the pictures of me in all of my naked glory.”

[People.com]

She just should have gone on the show and copped to her mistake like Hugh Grant did after his hooker bj.

Disney is standing by Hudgens, and it’s not surprising that the clothing line she models for is also defending her. She’s a hell of a lot more famous now, and everyone is going to benefit from that.

Update: The sex tape story originated on a satirical site and is not true.

Pictures via Celebslam.

Update 2: Photos removed by legal request