Next thing you know, she’ll be disappearing for a couple of weeks and will re-emerge with the Katie Zombie Stare.

High School Musical 3 star Vanessa Hudgens got a chance to meet Tom Cruise recently and thought the experience was totally kewl:

The scenario that led up to their meeting started when Victoria Beckham invited the teen actress to attend a Spice Girls concert.   When she arrived Katie Holmes, Tom and Suri were also in the same VIP box.  According to Vanessa: “Victoria was like, ‘you know Tom and Katie don’t you?’  I’m like No!  And I got to talk to them, they are really great people.”

Vanessa went on to say that he gave her some advice about dealing with her life in the limelight.  “He was so sweet and such a nice guy…just telling me there isn’t much that you can do, it’s just part of your life and you have to accept it.  He is an amazing guy and I look up to him.”

The next thing we’ll be hearing is that she’s embracing Scientology.  She seems ripe for the plucking Tom.

Uhoh…and another one bites the dust.

To be fair, there’s nothing linking Vanessa, Tom, and Scientology other than the taint of association.  However, this is how they operate…was it just coincidence that Vanessa found herself in the same VIP box as Tom?  Were the Beckhams, who have always adamantly denied that they are agents of the cult (and I don’t know, I can’t see Victoria parting with her money to this so-called church), either witting or unwitting parties in trying to recruit Vanessa?  She’s a hot young star right now, and many young girls look up to her (and many guys want her), and that’s just the sort of celeb Scientology wants right now in an attempt to revamp their image.

Plus, her relationship with Zac Efron continues, and I bet Scientology bosses are salivating at the thought of getting their hands on him (no, I didn’t mean that like it sounded…okay, maybe a teeny bit).  Can you imagine the press if Vanessa and/or Zac are recruited?  Forget JLo, that would be news!

But “it’s just part of your life and you have to accept it”?  What, is this a cancer diagnosis?  A severed limb?  A death in the family?  It sounds like Tom is talking about something horrible and traumatic, not a show business career that has netted him millions in the bank.  Nobody went off to war, Tom…as difficult as I can imagine some celebs lives can be with the intrusive press and insensitive fans, I can think of worse things.  But y’know, Scientology can help you with that!

Teen movie queen Vanessa Hudgens has revealed how you know you’re in a successful relationship…it’s when you don’t have to work at it, because that would be, like, hard and stuff:

“If you really love someone, you shouldn’t have to work at it,” the 19-year-old tells [COSMO Girl]. “You finish each others’ sentences and have the same sense of humor.”

Oh, really.  And here I’ve been spending the better part of two decades attempting to do things like work out our problems and resolve differences and make an effort.  What was I thinking?

The article also describes how Vanessa, when Zac walked into the room, ran over and gave him a big kiss and rubbed his belly in an affectionate way, and this spoke more than her words can say.  If that’s how people gauge true love, I truly despair for young people today.

Let’s ask little Vanessa her opinions on this same subject in about twenty years, when Zac Efron has a bit of a potbelly and his career is in the tanker.  I guarantee she’ll have a different opinion, because this sort of thing only happens in silly teen movies and Barbara Cartland novels.  Sure, after a while you know what the other person is thinking, but that is just a byproduct of spending time together, not necessarily the sign of a successful relationship.  And having the same sense of humor is nothing more than two people who…share the same sense of humor.  Um, HELLO?

A friend of mine once told me that true love is when you’re willing to wash the other person’s dirty underwear.  I’d take that a step further…a successful relationship doesn’t just happen, it is a choice.  You make a choice every day to have a successful relationship when you are picking up their nasty, smelly, stiff socks off the floor for the umpteenth time (that day), when you are listening to Beethoven’s Fifth Fart Symphony, when you’re tripping over the trash that they were supposed to take out yesterday, when they have a headache (again)…

You see, so many times this is exactly where people make their mistake.  Once the “honeymoon” phase of the relationship is over, and there comes a time when the relationship actually requires work, and it isn’t as easy as it was in the beginning, and that sense of humor is working your last nerve and the sentences you’re finishing are the ones in the middle of an argument, people think there is something “wrong” with it.  Then they think it’s time to trade in the one with mileage for a newer model, thinking that because everything is “easy” again this must be “right”.  I know it isn’t as cut and dried as that, and some relationships that take work really are destined for failure, but you get the idea.  It is completely irresponsible for anyone in the public eye to promote this skewed view of relationships.

Yes, it is definitely a choice, and something one has to work at every day.  Anything that you care about takes work, and that includes relationships.  No matter how much “in love” you are with the other person, there will come a time when that relationship will require a degree of work.  But when you are truly in love, and truly in a committed relationship, those choices aren’t a burden to make.  There’s the difference.

High School Musical star Vanessa Hudgens has been officially dumped by Disney for the third film the popular HSM movies. According to OK! Magazine, Disney’s decision was based on leaked photos of Vanessa nude, as well as, other racy photos of the 18 year-old actress. The article states:

“Disney finally decided that they don’t want her back,” an insider reveals to OK!. “They feel that as long as Zac Efron is in the movie, all will be fine. He’s the real star — the household name — and, most importantly, he comes without baggage.”

The source also reports that one of the Cheetah Girls — Adrienne Baillon, 23, or possibly 23-year-old Sabrina Bryan — will take Vanessa’s place. “The producers think that after Dancing With the Stars, Sabrina will be more famous than Vanessa.”

Well I will tell you one thing Disney has wrong, Sabrina’s not going to be more famous than Vanessa, because nothing says instant stardom in Hollywood like naked pics of your kitty-cat and funbags. Seriously, what did Disney expect Vanessa to do? She’s 18 and cute. Taking sexually explicit photos, albeit cheesy and stupid, is EXACTLY what attractive teenage girls do. Throw in fame and you have an untamed party girl waiting to break free. Sometimes you have to let a dirty slut do her thing, or lest she burst in flames.

Speaking of flames, I wonder how her boyfriend and fellow HSM co-star Zac Ephron is handling the news? I’ll bet there’s LOTS of squeals involved.

Photo courtesy of IDLYITW. I wonder where they get all those pics from anyway. Weird.

Update: Just Jared is stating this is NOT true and claims to have verified this from both Vanessa’s rep and Disney. And my response is: really, who cares? All I want to know is WHERE’S Iggy?

What would possess a young woman who is part of a successful Disney franchise to derail her career by allowing herself to be photographed naked? And not just topless either, Vanessa gives us the full monty.

The Post Chronicle (citing US Magazine as the source) says Disney has parted ways with Ms. Hudgens over the scandal generated from a nude photo circulating on the internet. They are also stating Disney has already replaced her role on HSM:

In light of the scandalous nude photograph recently posted on the web, Walt Disney’s decided to part ways with Hudgens and, according to reports, have even already replaced her part in ‘High School Musical”Due to the recent scandal of “High School Musical” star Vanessa Hudgens’ naked photo scandal, Execs at have parted ways with the star and have decided to replace her with “Cheetah Girls” star Adrienne Bailon.

Well, we don’t know if this rumor is substantiated with fact, but before I saw that headline this morning, I assumed it was a matter of time before Disney dumped Ms. Hudgens. They are a very protective of their “wholesome” image.

So what did possess Vanessa? I have two theories. Perhaps she’s so incredibly naive (and stupid), she thought no one but the taker of the photo would ever see them and therefore it was a safe, albeit ridiculous thing to do. Ms. Hudgen’s official statement would imply certainly imply this:

“This was a photo which was taken privately. It is a personal matter and it is unfortunate that this has become public.”

This was the logical PR move. Pretend they were taken in private, leave it at that and let the media sort it out. This would allow her to keep her “reputation” intact, and perhaps even garner some sympathy for having her privacy violated. Sounds great in theory, but this is Hollywood.

In this day and age, not even the sheltered and naive can be that dumb. So here’s the second theory, and the one I feel best fits the situation.

Vanessa intentionally (though probably not directly) allowed those pictures to surface so she could extract herself from her obligations to Disney. Granted High School Musical is/was a popular show among the tweens and pre-tweens, but honestly, can you blame Vanessa for wanting to distance herself as she enters adulthood. I like musicals as much as the next person, but the genre can really wear thin after while.

Whatever the fallout is from all of this, in the long run, Vanessa’s career will likely improve from this little gaff.

Naked pictures of young starlets is all the rage.

The only lingering question in all of this is WHO leaked the photo? Vanessa is supposedly dating her exceptionally effeminate HSM co-star Zac Efron. Assuming he’s gay (and who doesn’t?) then the photo must have been for someone else’s enjoyment. This all sounds like the work of some sleazy studio-exec.

…Paging Sherlock Holmes.

PS. If you pervs must see this photos, IDLYITW has it, and much more.  Schweet!