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Best Buddies with Vanessa Hudgens

Best Buddies with Vanessa Hudgens

Vanessa Hudgens pays a visit to Ocean Drive Magazine to promote the charity program Best Buddies on Friday in Miami Beach, Florida.

Best Buddies is a program that provides employment opportunities and one-to-one friendships for people with intellectual disabilities.

The 18-year-old High School Musical star and Best Buddies pal Pelayo Vigil shadowed an office assistant who works at Ocean Drive.

“I’m here today in Miami to support Best Buddies,” Vanessa told NBC6. “Best Buddies is an amazing organization that helps support people with mental disabilities. Today, it actually puts them in jobs, which is why I’m here at Ocean Drive. [Best Buddies] is an amazing program, you know. My manager is the person who actually developed it, and I found out about it and I thought it was an amazing organization. It’s really neat to reach out to people who are, like, fans, too. Just to be able to be a part of their lives is really neat.”

A Best Buddies gala and fundraiser, which will have a performance by Ciara, will be held Saturday night at Bicentennial Park.

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yeah yeah she’s so cute!
she’s the best!
she looks amazing like always!

#424 No Narf I won’t rest LOL. Mysteries like this drive me nuts. Of course I wouldn’t expect her to divulge how she did it. I wouldn’t want her to give any trade secrets away after all. And I DEFINITELY would not tell the paps for that’s fure :)

Oh and before I forget… *kiss*

I mIss Zanessa!!!!!!!!

Love to see zanessa together

Love to see zanessa together

V-LOYALIST @ 12/03/2007 at 3:08 am

Im quite late for this thread of Vanessa, though I am, i don’t want to miss
any of her thread here and not even posting any comment..

I must say I’m so proud of her giving her time and support to charities that truly shows her compassion to other people in need and I know that that is one of the good qualities that zac found in her.
I’m so blessed to have been your admirer.

aw thats so cute [:
i love vanessa

Sometingwong? @ 12/03/2007 at 8:05 pm

what happend here? She usually looks fabulous, but she looks so ugh here.
lately shes been looking ugh.

still pretty to me .

happy trails @ 12/03/2007 at 9:51 pm

Why We All Love Vanessa and Why Some People Hate Her

Most of us fell in love with Vanessa as the cute and bubbly Gabriella in High School Musical. It wasn’t long before we all realized someone else was falling in love with her, too. But, I won’t go there now. This is about Vanessa.

First of all, she is stunningly beautiful–even without makeup. One would expect a young girl with such beauty to be vain and full of self-importance. Not our Vanessa. How many 18-year olds who’ve made two mega-hit movies and a successful music album would hang out with her mother and younger sister or spend time doing charity work? Such down-to-earth behavior puts her at the top of my list as being a decent, very humble young lady.

Yes, she can act, she can sing, she can dance. And she is dating the one guy that about a million tween-age girls and some “older” females would love to have as their own heart monitor. None of this has gone to Vanessa’s head. She can still let loose with that giggle of hers that has us all laughing along. She’s not into drugs or stumbling out of the Viper Club at 3 am drunk. But wait a minute. She’s a Disney kid. We just have to find some fault with this girl. Got to dig up some dirt on her.

And somebody dug long and hard and they did find something. A simple photo sans clothes that she took when she was younger. A private photo. I don’t know the details, but my inner reasoning tells me that she was betrayed by someone that she considered to be a friend.

Why would the media and people in general go wild over this one single picture? This one mistake a young, decent girl made? Ah . . . here’s the news media’s one BIG chance to bring down a Disney kid. Let’s go in for the kill, folks. Let’s destroy her. And while we’re at it, let’s hit Disney as hard as we can, too.

Despite Vanessa’s recent accomplishments–her first music album selling more than 600,000 copies in the US and receiving Teen Choice break out album award, her being on People Magazine’s list of 21 and Under Hottest Breakout Stars–news account of these accomplishments or Internet article still mentions the PHOTOS (actually there was only one, but go figure).

What strikes me as uncanny, is that when people write about Lindsay Lohan, they never mention her past transgressions, (the girl who had internet pictures with another girl holding a knife to her throat, the girl who was arrested for DUI with cocaine in her pocket). No, the truly bad girls are forgiven. Poor Lindsay, we hope she gets her life together. Poor Lindsay . . . poor Lindsay . . . poor Lindsay . . . .

But, let a decent girl like Vanessa make ONE mistake and she is going to be crucified for eternity. When she turns forty, the announcement will be, “Vanessa Hudgens, whose nude photos appeared on the internet 40 years ago is celebrating her birthday today.”

Sad, but there is a cynical segment of our society who hates good girls. And if you happen to be a Disney kid, those jaded souls doubly hate you. Contemptuous people and the mocking news media won’t forgive a good girl for one transgression. But they will forgive the bad girls a thousand times.

But Vanessa is a strong, grounded person. She had a great childhood and is still close to her family, which means her roots are firmly anchored. She will succeed despite all the shallow people who throw pointless criticism at her.

At the AMAs, in that gold dress, she shone like the true star that she is. She was on People Magazines six best dressed ladies there, and after the voting, she was NUMBER ONE. That is the best way to put the mistake behind you, Vanessa, the best way to answer your critics.

Hold your head high and be proud of your accomplishments. You are already a star.

Essay and other information can be found at:
http://www.zacandvanessasupporters.blogspot.com

V-LOYALIST @ 12/04/2007 at 5:29 am

thank you happy trails! You made smile!
Its great to be Vanessa fan!

V-LOYALIST @ 12/04/2007 at 5:37 am

I wish you luck with all your endeavor Vanessa, i know you have a good heart for those in need,
keep it up and more luck will come to you.

hoaaaaaaa como estas espero q bien bueno sos muy bella espero nunca cambien chaooooooo

hola estas pechocha bueno chaoooo

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