Zac Efron has his appendix removed! I really, really want to see it sold on eBay. Not that I’d buy it, but I think it is really strange the way people keep their body parts. I recently had a tooth out and the dentist offered it to me, and I’m all like “No thanks!”

The good news is that Zac is predicted to make a complete recovery, and he’ll be dancing prettily in no time, much to the relief of teenage girls the world over.

Zac Efron was hospitalized Tuesday for an appendectomy, his rep tells PEOPLE.

The 20-year-old High School Musical star was rushed to Cedars-Sinai Medical Center for the surgery.

“Zac had his appendix removed and is recuperating,” the rep says.

People

I don’t know anyone who has had appendicitis, but it seems like people get it all the time. Apparently it’s not caused by anything like diet, it’s just something some people get. And it hurts.

This come the day after Disney announced that all of the cast of High School Musical would be joining together again for a third installment. Now, I haven’t seen HSM, but I have bought an awful lot of the merchandise this Christmas, so I’m glad it’s coming back. At least that gives the actors another five minutes of fame, thus ensuring that my hard earned cash didn’t get spent on presents that will be considered dorky by the end of January. The movie is to be released at the end of October.

The third movie will feature Ashley Tisdale and her new nose, Vanessa Hudgens clothed, Zac Efron minus appendix, and will deal with the Wildcat crew’s fears about their future. Troy (Efron) and Gabriella (Hudgens) will be facing the future apart as they are going to different colleges. How are the gang going to cope? By staging a musical. Of course.

Zac is currently filming Seventeen with Matthew Perry.

Picture note by Celebitchy: Zac Efron is shown with Vanessa Hudgens and Ashley Tisdale pre-nosejob at the HSM2 DVD premiere on 11/17/07, thanks to PRPhotos.

High School Musical’s onscreen and offscreen couple, Zac Efron and Vanessa Hudgens, have parted ways. Zac, 20, is said to have broken the news to Vanessa, 19, over the phone just a week before Christmas. He had given her a brand new Audi S4 convertible as a birthday present on December 14, just a few days before he broke up with her. Maybe it was one of those guilt gifts:

Zac… phoned Vanessa about a week before Christmas and told her he was ending their relationship. She was stunned and upset, a source close to them confided.

“They’ve been together for a long time, and he didn’t even call her to wish her a Merry Christmas. She was crushed!” a source close to the teen idols told The Enquirer.

Vanessa was blindsided by the breakup because Zac had just given her a brand-new car - that matched his - for her 19th birthday, which was Dec. 14.

But the sleek black Audi S4 convertible ended up being a parting gift, says the source.

“Zac wants to move on, start seeing other girls. He’s had no shortage of women hitting him up to become Vanessa’s replacement. Zac’s got enough numbers to fill a phone book!”

[From The National Enquirer, print edition, January 14, 2008]

The Enquirer goes on to say that Vanessa has been coping by hanging out with her co-star and new nosejob recipient Ashley Tisdale. The two teens have been seen out shopping, getting fast food, and hitting the gym together.

They also note that Vanessa wore a T-shirt to LA Fitness on December 26 that said “Love Stinks!” It often does, especially when you’re young. Vanessa won’t have much trouble finding a replacement if she wants one, and we’re all likely to hear about it.

JayBird reported yesterday that Vanessa called her nude picture scandal “traumatic” and went on to blame the Internet for her lack of privacy. She should really learn not to e-mail naked photos of herself then, as JayBird pointed out. Now she doesn’t have to send her potential suitors naked pictures, though. All they have to do is google to see the goods, and surely that will work out to her advantage.

Zac Efron, Vanessa Hudgens and Ashley Tisdale pre-nosejob are shown at the High School Musical 2 DVD screening on 11/19/07, thanks to WENN and PRPhotos. Ashley looked so much better before. Also look at how happy Ashley and Vanessa look while Zac is just brooding.

Update: These two showed up at an event together on January 5th, so if they were broken up they’re either back together or acting like they are.

The other day I was really bored, so I stripped off all my clothes in my trailer and took some naked pictures that were only meant to be seen by me. And really, who hasn’t? One of our God-given rights as Americans (or whatever nationality you are – it doesn’t matter, this is a God-given right) is to take private nudie photos whenever you’re bored and know that there will never be any repercussions. If anything, people should respect you more for it. Shockingly, when “High School Musical” star Vanessa Hudgens did the exact same thing in her trailer, there was a bit of a scandal. I have no idea why that didn’t happen with my photos. Probably because Vanessa’s boobs are about 2 feet higher than mine. Reason 232,388 that I hate her.

Poor Vanessa – who apparently thinks the scandal that resulted from the release of her naked photos was some kind of trauma inflicted upon her, instead of something she did to herself – has rallied, and gave a heart-wrenching interview to Seventeen magazine talking about that devastating time in her life.

“I’m much better now,” the High School Musical star, 18, tells Seventeen magazine for its February issue. “But truthfully I don’t like talking about it.” She now says of the intimate posing session, “It was something that was meant to be private, and even though it isn’t anymore, I’d still like to keep it as private as I can.”

Of the tempest that the pictures caused, she says, “It was very traumatic, and I am extremely upset it happened. I hope all my fans can learn from my mistake and make smart decisions. But I wouldn’t have been able to get through it if it wasn’t for my family, friends and fans, who supported me all along the way.”

Asked how she had been informed that the photos had gone public, Hudgens answers, “I found out from my manager. We heard some story was going to break in the tabloids, and I was like, What?!? A few days later, the picture came out while I Was on vacation in Australia. Thank God, I wasn’t home – it would have sucked if I was at home. So I got to be away from L.A. for about a millisecond. But when I came back, it got kind of crazy.”

[From People]

Who in the world would have guessed that a young celebrity taking naked photos of herself could have ended up in a scandal? If I were famous, I’d make it my job to make sure that I was in clothes 110% of the time. I would become a Never Nude (bonus points if you catch the reference) and wear jean shorts and a tank top in the shower. What’s the most important lesson Vanessa Hudgens has learned from all this?

“With the Internet these days, you don’t have a personal life. Nothing is private: Everyone knows everything, and they can find out everything about you. You’re not as safe as you think you are, and you have to be aware of the people you’re around.”

[From People]

Is Vanessa saying she’s learned not to email naked photos of herself? She’s sorta vague, but I’m going to interpret her quote the most salacious way possible, and read it that she’s learned that emailing her naked photos is not nearly as safe as she thought it was. JayBird’s goal for next week: only email half of the naked photos I did this week. Thank you, Vanessa Hudgens, for teaching me such a difficult lesson.

Picture note by Jaybird: Here’s a rare photo of Vanessa with her clothes on at the 2007 American Music Awards. Images thanks to PR Photos. Click here for the NSFW photos.

Vanessa Hudgens isn’t taken with being a celebrity – she probably enjoyed it more before the whole world saw her nude, but I can see other drawbacks in addition to her nudie pics suddenly becoming more valuable.

“It is a dog-eat-dog world,” the singer, who first came to prominence in the Thunderbirds movie, says. “People want to know about people’s business; no one really has a sense of privacy because everyone is trying to get into your business.

“And people become jaded and infatuated with Hollywood. I think it happens to a lot of celebrities and it messes with their head.”

While some actually like the extra attention, Hudgens says it’s not really for her.

“I don’t like people staring at me all the time and I don’t want people following me around,” she says.

“I became an actress and started singing and dancing because I truly loved it. I did not want to be a celebrity; I did it because I genuinely enjoy doing it. I think fame is just something that comes along when you are in something that is such a success.

“Fame is an interesting thing but my fans are very supportive and I thank them so much.”

Daily Telegraph

She also reveals that she was going to audition for American Idol, but couldn’t as the show has a minimum age of 16 to audition.

Zac Efron is also busy these days, playing a role in HSM3 (reportedly paying $3 million) and in a new movie with Matthew Perry titled ‘17’.

Zac Efron is attached to star in the new film, about a middle-aged father who wakes up one day to find that he’s somehow become a teenager. Matthew Perry, star of “Friends” and “Studio 60 on the Sunset Strip” will play the older version of Efron’s character.

Access Hollywood

Can anyone say ‘Big’ rip off? Surely this wasn’t a good film to sign up for, it just sounds so lame. The character goes to high school with his teenage kids to get to know them better.

Are the HSM stars cursed? Vanessa Hudgens will probably disappear from film after HSM3, as she says it’s a ‘dog-eat-dog world’. And Zac Efron grows up to be Matthew Perry! That’s a curse if ever I heard of one. Watch out Ashley Tisdale. Then again, I could be completely wrong, it’s been known to happen occasionally.

Hypocrites are my favorite sort of people to bash. They just make it so easy. Turns out, Vanessa Hudgens has no idea that she lives in a glass house. And considering all the time she spends naked, she should probably put up some drapes. Apparently she thought it was a good idea to call Britney Spears and Lindsay Lohan’s behavior “stupid.” Um, as much as I don’t like them, I don’t think I’d seen dozens of nude photos of them by the time they were nineteen. In fact I’m not sure that I’ve ever seen them full-out naked. So I’m just saying if that’s what Hudgens is up to by nineteen, I don’t even want to think what she might accomplish by the time she’s the ripe-old age of 25.

“Vanessa Hudgens has come down hard on the ’stupid’ behavior of rehab-devotees Britney Spears and Lindsay Lohan, apparently in denial over the furore [sic] sparked by her own nude photo scandal.

“‘I honestly think it’s stupid,’ she told US Weekly when asked what she made of the recent difficulties of her fellow starlets. ‘It’s easy to stay out of those situations.’”

[From MSN]

You know, for me – and this is just me – it’s pretty easy to stay out of those situations where my clothes come off. But that seemed to be a bit too much for Miss Hudgens. I’m not sure it’s a wise idea to go around criticizing others for poor decisions when I can tell you exactly what your boobs look like (way too perky and I’m way too jealous). There’s a sentence I never thought I’d write, but there it is. And I blame you, Vanessa Hudgens.

Seriously, I know she’s young, but who wouldn’t have the common sense to keep quiet when you’re just barely out of your own scandal by about five minutes? New deal: Vanessa Hudgens, you keep your clothes on, and in exchange for that, you can get all moral and preachy on whoever you want. Until then, run everything through your PR rep.

Vanessa Hudgens is shown at Variety’s Power of Youth event on 10/6 and at the Revolution eyewear booth at the 2007 International Vision Expo on 10/5. Thanks to PRPhotos.

Unsurprisingly, even more facebook-style pics have emerged of overnight sensation Vanessa Hudgens, who gained a modicum of fame after some nude pictures of her were conveniently leaked online. We’ve been warned by the National Enquirer that more nude pictures might be coming, as she was said to have sent a third guy naked pictures of herself back when she was just 15.

Now some slightly more racy pictures of her posing with friends suggestively and wearing sort of slutty outfits have come out. These aren’t much more damning than the last set of pictures of her with friends that we saw last week. Since the Vanessa Hudgens pics were so popular, I may as well publish these. There are some upskirts here that are attributed to Hudgens, but they’re hard to verify.

While Disney has announced that they won’t replace Hudgens in High School Musical follow-ups following her nude picture scandal, the National Enquirer is reporting that they’re quietly grooming another young starlet to take her place:

The Enquirer has learned that while Disney is publicly backing star Vanessa Hudgens despite her nude photo hitting the Internet, the family oriented Mousemen have privately been considering replacing her with a young blonde.

After the scandal broke, Disney began looking at Adrienne Bailon, a 23-year-old member of The Cheetah Girls, a multiplatinum pop and R&B group, for a third HSM movie, revealed an insider.

“She said Disney is making her dye her blonde hair dark and is also having her do tons of promotional press to build her image and make her more visible.”

[From The National Enquirer, print edition, October 1, 2007]

You know, I had only heard of Vanessa Hudgens in passing until this nude photo scandal, so I stand by my original assessment that it was all for publicity. This week I even saw Vanessa and Zac Efron in a small inset photo on the cover of Germany’s biggest celebrity magazine, Gala, with the headline “America’s new teen stars” or something similar. She probably wants to be let out of her Disney contract so she’s not typecast, so if someone else is cast in her role she’ll try to move on to bigger and better things. Can she act, though? I haven’t seen HSM, I’m not sorry to say. Does it really matter if she can act?

Thanks to Right Celebrity for these pics.

Update: Photos removed by legal request.

Along with the news that the latest Vanessa Hudgens nude pics were taken for her supposed boyfriend and High School Musical costar, Zac Efron, there was a story that she similarly sent nude pics to a guy she had a crush on, Drake Bell, two years ago. Now an ex boyfriend claims that she sent a nude picture to him too - way back when she was 15:

Yet another nude picture of the “High School Musical” star has surfaced - and it was snapped when she was only 15, The Enquirer has learned exclusively.

Vanessa, 18, took the photograph of herself in her bedroom - and sent it to a boyfriend she’d just dumped.

“It was like she was saying: ‘Look what you’re going to miss,’” her then-boyfriend Adam O’Neal, 19, told The Enquirer in an exclusive interview.

[From The National Enquirer, print edition, September 24, 2007]

When I first read the headline for this story I thought they meant that the nude photos online were from when she was 15, and that skeeved me out a little. It was clear from the story that they meant that there are more nude photos from when she was younger, though.

The Enquirer reported back before the photos hit the ‘net that they were coming, and I said it sounded a little too convenient that they warned us about them to generate buzz ahead of time. If they’re saying there’s another set of nude pictures they’re probably right and it’s just a matter of time before we see them.

This seems to be Hudgens’ MO - she takes nude pictures of herself and sends them to guys she likes - or in this case the entire world - saying “look at me, I’m so cute.”

Hudgens recently said that she would pose for a men’s magazine, just not for Playboy. I think she means Maxim. At least she’s honest about it and is not trying to play the innocent card:

The High School Musical star, 18, recently admitted to posing naked for snaps for boyfriend ZAC EFRON - which were then posted on the web.

And she says: “I think being a woman and being able to show a sexy side is empowering.

“Being able to show we are comfortable in our skin is a good thing. I totally would pose for a sexy magazine. But not Playboy.”

[From The Sun]

And Joe Francis, the fallen head of the Girls Gone Wild franchise has extended a 1/2 million offer to Vanessa from his jail cell, telling her he would love to have her represent the company in a commercial and on video.

There was a story this that Vanessa and Zac had broken up, but they were seen out recently getting McDonalds and it seems like that rumor was false. L.A. Rag Mag also quotes a source saying that they’re still together.

So brace yourselves. More Vanessa Anne Hudgens nude pics are coming. She should wait a while before releasing these ones, though, people might get bored of her.

Hudgens is shown at the High School Musical 2 premiere on 8/14/07. Thanks to PRPhotos.

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

Some more photos have come out of this formerly virtually unknown chick, Vanessa Anne Hudgens, from the same series as her now sort-of famous nude pic. They’re higher res and feature her in some more seductive poses in her skivvies in the bedroom. These are sort of safe for work because the naughty bits are covered.

Commentors on ONTD, where we found these pics, say her publicist is dumb and that he should have issued a more strongly-worded statement. As it is, it sounds like she’s practically admitting it.

This might also be a ploy to get this chick out of her contract with Disney to do more High School Musical shows. She should have put these out last week because it was a much slower gossip week.

I didn’t find these until after the earlier post where she admitted the photos were real was published or I would have added them to that one.

Update: Photos removed by legal request