Zac Efron Dumped His Girlfriend to Start Dating Vanessa Hudgens

Zac Efron and Vanessa Hudgens discovered love on the set of Excessive College Musical after he allegedly dumped his preexisting girlfriend.

The origins of Efron and Hudgens’ relationship was highlighted in Ashley Spencer’s new ebook Disney High: The Untold Story of the Rise and Fall of Disney Channel’s Tween Empire. Spencer claimed that Efron, now 36, confessed his emotions for Hudgens, now 35, to HSM choreographer Charles “Chucky” Klapow.

In the midst of a “uncommon, wild night time of intermingling,” Efron pulled Klapow, now 44, apart to ask for recommendation.

“I don’t know what to do, man. Vanessa is tremendous into me, and I’ve emotions for her, too. I don’t need to do the fallacious factor with my girlfriend,” Spencer reported Efron telling the dancer on the time. “I additionally don’t need to shut Vanessaa down and smash the chemistry within the film.”

Klapow in the end inspired Efron to “discover” his reference to Hudgens since they had been “so younger” and away from house on set.

Efron and Hudgens performed love pursuits Troy Bolton and Gabriella Montez within the 2006 Disney Channel film. The musical DCOM — additionally starring Ashley Tisdale, Corbin Bleu, Luca Grabeel and Monique Coleman — was filmed in Utah.

After Efron and Klapow walked again into the resort room, the solid get together “delved into melodrama,” Spencer wrote.

“Vanessa was in tears, crying within the locked toilet with Ashley. It appeared as if the tipping level of her unrequited love had been reached,” Spencer claimed within the ebook. “Corbin tried to console her from the opposite room till Zac knocked on the toilet door, and Ashley left the 2 of them to speak alone.”

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Excessive College Musical’s love story between Troy Bolton and Gabriella Montez sparked an offscreen romance for the actors who performed them. Zac Efron and Vanessa Hudgens, who portrayed Troy and Gabriella within the 2006 DCOM, notably began relationship shortly after filming the primary film. The pair referred to as it quits in 2010 after 5 years of […]

In line with Grabeel, he remembered Efron and Hudgens left the toilet holding arms.

“I imply, it was so highschool,” Grabeel, now 39, recalled within the ebook. “It was like, ‘He broke up together with his girlfriend, and we’re collectively now.’”

Efron and Hudgens, who reprised their HSM roles in 2007 and 2008 sequels, had been collectively for 5 years.

“We received fortunate as a result of we began off collectively, so I believe individuals like us as a result of they fell in love with the characters,” Hudgens advised Glamour in a June 2010 interview. “Proper off the bat, we had a connection. I believe everyone might see it. After we had our audition, they paired us collectively. And he was lovable. I imply, he wasn’t the man that he’s right this moment. Like, he had a spot in his enamel.”

Efron and Hudgens in the end break up later in 2010. The Princess Swap actress went on up to now Austin Butler earlier than they break up in 2020. She moved on with baseball participant Cole Tucker, and the pair tied the knot in 2023. They welcomed their first child collectively one yr later.

Efron, for his half, has since been linked to Alexandra Daddario, Michelle Rodriguez, Sami Miró and Vanessa Valladares. He advised Males’s Well being in October 2022 that he was single, including that he hopes to “meet the appropriate individual” when he “least anticipate[s] it.”

Disney Excessive: The Untold Story of the Rise and Fall of Disney Channel’s Tween Empire is out there now.