High School Musical Archives

The cast of High School Musical 2 — Zac Efron, Vanessa Hudgens, Ashley Tisdale, Corbin Bleu, Monique Coleman — made a special appearance on Thursday’s taping of Good Morning America (Lucas Grabeel was MIA).

There’s an interview with the whole cast, a little song and dance, and a dance-along. GMA slyly had a video tape submission of little kids asking Zanessa how many boyfriends and girlfriends they have. Both Zac and Vanessa didn’t fall for it the bait and answered that they have “many.”

UPDATE: After being asked that question and right before the commercial break, Zac smiles, approaches Vanessa and holds up one finger. Could that symbolize one girlfriend, perhaps?? Wink, wink.

The Insider also has “footage” from the Hairspray premiere of Vanessa confirming that she’s dating Zac. You can watch it here but it seems bogus since you never actually SEE her say yes. It’s just good video editing. Yaknowwhatimean?

Watch the video of HSM2 on GMA below!

The first ones to speak to Just Jared on the red fuchsia carpet at The 2007 MTV Movie Awards was the cast of High School Musical — Ashley Tisdale, Monique Coleman and Corbin Bleu. They were my first interviewees on the red carpet at an awards show… ever!

Here’s some background: Each press outlet is designated a certain space behind a barricade and a floor marker with your outlet’s name is taped onto the carpet in front of you. JustJared.com was sandwiched between UK’s national news agency Press Association and syndicated columnist Beck/Smith.

Ashley was the first one to recognize my floor marker, point to it, show it to co-stars Corbin and Monique and laugh about it.

When asked if she reads my blog, Ashley responded, “Of course I do! I definitely check out Just Jared!” (blush)

Who was Ashley excited to see at the Awards Show? “I’m just excited to see the MTV reality stars. I’m definitely a big fan of The Hills.” (Lauren Conrad, Heidi Montag and Spencer Pratt all stopped by to talk with Just Jared!)

We then touched upon Ashley meeting one of her fave singers, Jessica Simpson, which was documented on YouTube.

On Simpson’s break-up with John Mayer, Monique said, “I heard they got back together though… but you know, he said, she said!”

“He said, she said!” Ashley giggled (it’s the name of the first single from her debut album Headstrong).

Corbin commented on just getting back from their High School Musical tour in Latin America: “We did the same show out here in the USA but we did it in [Argentina], Chile, Venezuela, Brazil and Mexico. In Sao Paolo, we had an audience of 70,000 people (their largest live audience yet).”

When asked how fans vary from country to country, Ashley chimed in saying, “[The fans in Latin America were] so excited. They don’t get much of that over there. It’s typical in Hollywood for us to be here. But they were just amazed we were actually there.”

Come on USA High School Musical fanatics, the fans in Latin America have gotten you beat!

Future plans for these stars? Ashley will be a shooting a new film this August, but refused to spill any of the details about it. Why? “I’m superstitious,” she laughed.

Corbin will be touring with Drake Bell and teen pop duo Aly & AJ this summer. Monique is searching for her next step after High School Musical 2.

The trio didn’t share much on the topic of High School Musical 2 spoilers but they did mention the opening scene to the film will be the upbeat jam, “What Time Is It?”

The music video for “What Time Is It?” debuts on Saturday June 9th in @ 7:55PM/6:55c on The Disney Channel.

Here are two behind-the-scenes shots from the “Got Milk?” set.

Zac Efron, Vanessa Hudgens, Monique Coleman and Ashley Tisdale look at one of the High School Musical “Got Milk?” outtakes from the photoshoot. On-screen and off-screen couple Zac and Vanessa, aka Zanessa, even signed copies of the HSM DVDs in between takes. Video here.

High School Musical 2 premieres Friday, August 17 @ 8PM ET/PT on The Disney Channel. T-minus 77 days!

More pictures inside of the HSM2 cast…

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The cast of High School Musical 2 poses for the latest Got Milk? advertisement — Zac Efron, Vanessa Hudgens, Lucas Grabeel, Monique Coleman, Ashley Tisdale and Corbin Bleu.

Below are some old and new High School Musical 2 movie stills.

High School Musical 2 premieres Friday, August 17 @ 8PM ET/PT on The Disney Channel.

GO WILDCATS!

High School Musical lovefest!!

The Post reports that High School Musical star Zac Efron splashed in the Hawaii tide with a bikini-clad gal and that the two were spotted canoodling. But we all know who that is!

Well, here is the first picture of on-and-off-screen couple Zac Efron and Vanessa Hudgens enjoying their week-long Hawaiian getaway together.

Zanessa all the way!

High School Musical 2 premieres Friday, August 17 @ 8PM ET/PT on The Disney Channel.

UPDATE: Apologies, images removed!

High School Musical stars Zac Efron, Vanessa Hudgens and Ashley Tisdale attend Hollywood Life Magazine’s 9th Annual Young Hollywood Awards at the Music Box at the Fonda on Sunday night in Los Angeles, Calif.

In their July 2007 issue, Popstar Magazine will be confirming that Zac and Vanessa have been dating dating off and on (mostly on) since High School Musical 1.

We never confirmed it only because they never confirmed it publicly, even though it’s been an open secret to everyone around them and to everyone in the entertainment biz. Even their fans are aware of it—75% of you voted on our site at popstaronline.com that you thought they were dating.

Popstar! was the first mag to promote “Zanessa” and we always did so respectfully—never revealing private details that we have access to, or using sneaky photos (that are out there) proving they’re seeing each other. We also didn’t want to use other stars’ interviews to “leak” the info because that would be silly since we already knew the truth.

After seeing Zac and Vanessa in the “Say OK” video, that kind of made it hard to pretend they were not an item! It was like when Justin & Britney and J.Lo & Marc Anthony were dating but wouldn’t say it…at first, you go along with it. But enough’s enough once everyone knows.

Still, we’ll be treating them with a lot of respect and won’t publish any deeply private things about them. So far, we have had no complaints from the cutest couple ever. We love them as individuals and as a real-life couple. Don’t you?

25+ pictures inside of Zac, Vanessa and Ashley… More Here! »

The New York Times featured a fantastic article about the upcoming High School Musical 2: Sing It All or Nothing!. I almost peed in my pants while reading it from all the excitement.

Here are 5 things I learned about High School Musical 2 and its cast:

• Dance number “I Don’t Dance” pits Ryan and Chad’s teams against one another. It sets a baseball game to a musical score that fuses elements of hip-hop and swing.
• There’s a new song called “Fabulous” has Sharpay and Ryan float around in lounge chairs in a pool and “pass around beach balls in a Busby Berkeley-like sequence.”
• Zac wasn’t featured much on the High School Musical soundtrack because his “deep baritone had been deemed an uneasy fit with the rest of the cast” but he’ll be singing own stuff in the new movie and in Hairspray.
• Lucas Grabeel’s younger sister, Autumn Grabeel, is Monique Coleman’s personal assistant
• And here’s a little synopsis of High School Musical 2: “Sharpay Evans, the rich girl whom audiences loved to hate in the original movie, is on a campaign to woo Troy, the basketball coach’s son, away from Gabriella. The setting is a luxurious country club owned by Sharpay’s father, where Troy, Gabriella and their East High classmates have all landed summer jobs. Instead of a school musical, the source of conflict (and more than a few songs) is the club’s annual talent show, and Sharpay is scheming to get Troy to perform a duet.”

And one Zac Efron quote had a little OUCH factor, which stuck out to me: “Personally, I feel no competition with the cast because I’m not going for the same things they are. A lot of them are doing teen music things, and tours, various TV deals and other Disney TV movies and Disney albums. That’s the last thing I want to be doing at the moment. I’m setting my sights a little bit higher.”

High School Musical 2 is set for an August 17 release.

Pictured: Zac Efron is Troy Bolton, Vanessa Anne Hudgens is Gabriella Montez, Ashley Tisdale is Sharpay Evans, Lucas Grabeel is Ryan Events, Corbin Bleu is Chad Danforth, and Monique Coleman is Taylor McKessie.

Here are some miscellaneous celebrities that made it out to the 2006 Billboard Music Awards held last night at the MGM Grand Garden Arena in Las Vegas, Nevada. The host-less show went on without Britney Spears and Paris Hilton. Here’s how the top six winners stacked up:

• Mary J Blige: 9 Billboard Awards
• Carrie Underwood, TI: 5 Billboard Awards
• Chris Brown, Rihanna, Nickelback, The Fray: 3 Billboard Awards

Now onto some of the red carpet arrivals…

Nelly Furtado - Billboard Awards 2006

Rihanna - Billboard Awards 2006

Katharine McPhee - Billboard Awards 2006

Kristen Bell - Billboard Awards 2006

Danity Kane - Billboard Awards 2006

High School Musical - Billboard Awards 2006