Ooooh, teen star cat fight that no one but me and a few twelve year olds care about: Vanessa Hudgens, the High School Musical starlet who takes [NSFW] nude photos for her gay fake boyfriend, is apparently furious that Ali Lohan, Lindsay's fame grubbing sister, wants a part in the upcoming feature film High School Musical 3: Senior Year (they're seniors in that one!!) She's worried that all the inevitable Lohan-focused drama will steal her spotlight. She sounds like Sharpay! (kill me) [Showbiz Spy]

· OMG! AFTRA wants SAG to start negotiating with AMPTP ASAP! [Variety]
· What do Charlie Sheen, Rosie O'Donnell, and Oscar-winner Marion Cotillard have in common? Hint: Not talent! A year-old interview with the La Vie en Rose star reveals she's a 9-11 conspiracist, too. Edifice sept! Edifice sept! [Variety]

Zac Efron down! We repeat, teenybopper heartthrob Zac Efron is down! The High School Musical star was rushed to hospital today to have his appendix removed. Efron is recovering nicely, and has agreed to sign the mostly useless, prone-to-rupturing tissue for an eBay celebrity-organ auction, where it's expected to fetch a large sum earmarked for The Children's Appendicitis Fund. [TMZ]

· Steve Jobs announced at Macworld that every major studio would now offer movies for rental on iTunes. $3.99 per new release gives you 30 days to start it, then 24 hours to finish it, and a virtually limitless amount of time to bitch about how you just blew $3.99 of beer money on Norbit. [THR]
· At last, Oprah Winfrey gets her OWN network: The Oprah Winfrey Network. (Get it? OWN?) When it debuts in 2009, look for her to select it as the Channel of the Month for her newly formed Oprah's TV Club, ensuring boffo launch ratings. [THR]
· With the one-two foam-baton punch of Deal or No Deal and American Gladiators, NBC easily swept up in the ratings last night, a victory they have a few hours to savor before Fox unleashes a rampaging, 70-foot Abdulosaur upon the TV landscape. [THR]

In People's DEVIATED SEPTUM CORRECTION EXCLUSIVE! with High School Musical star Ashley Tisdale (not the naked one, the other one), the actress offers the magazine the go-to excuse for why she just had her nose reshaped, a surgery that should bring the offending organ more in line with Disney's exacting proboscis standards. "I'm not feeling great today. It's uncomfortable and I hope this is the only time I ever have to go through something like this," said the appealingly naive Tisdale, who likely will be spending considerable time on the therapist's couch when a casting director lowers his eyes to her chest and remarks, "Not bad. But I'd like your chances better if you went you went a little bigger? One of the Cheetah Girls was in here this afternoon and said she'd do whatever it takes. A real go-getter, that one." [People]

Vanessa Hudgens, the Disney Channel star who saw her wholesome image go up in a puff of cackling-Britney-shaped smoke after nude photos of the actress proliferated across the internet, will not be returning for a third slurp at the High School Musical trough, OK! reports:

It's not for nothing that youth-skewed cable network The Disney Channel has long been referred to by their competition as "Mickey's Little Tramp Factory," having churned out a steady stream of them since its 1983 launch. Its latest vixenish graduate, High School Musical star Vanessa Hudgens, was recently caught traipsing nakedly across the internets and into the hard drives of countless hormonally charged tweens and pervy MySpace users posing as such.

Pervy High School Musical fans beware: the alleged "lesbian kissing" follow-up to Vanessa Hudgens' scandal-inciting nudie pics are probably not sufficiently graphic (indeed, there's so much space between their tongues that a Catholic school dance chaperone wouldn't even pull the two girls apart) to provide you with the level of jollies you're expecting. Yeah, we know you're still gonna look, but don't say you weren't warned. [Egotastic]

If by "hot" you mean "not even midly arousing" and by "lesbian" you mean "the tongue of the High School Musical co-star in slight proximity to the tongue of another woman." I've seen better girl-on-girl action in the pages of Foreign Policy, and, yes, I am talking about a debate between Jeane Kirkpatrick and Madeleine Albright over the role of the United Nations' Secretary General. DISAPPOINTING.

"Following the appearance on the Web of a nude photo of Vanessa Hudgens, a source close to the situation tells PEOPLE that the 'High School Musical' actress once sent risqué photos of herself to Nickelodeon star Drake Bell. Hudgens had emailed photos to the 'Drake and Josh' actor a couple of years ago, before she was famous, the source says." [People]

Vanessa Hudgens, the once-wholesome High School Musical star whose naked body has now been viewed by untold millions of (warning: link NSFW) depraved perverts on the internet, has just released a statement apologizing for posing for the racy photographs that have Walt Disney's cryogenically frozen head spinning in its freezer. From ABC News:

Did High School Musical hottie Vanessa Hudgens snap nudie pix for her boyfriend, costar Zac Efron, which then leaked to the internet? We're going to go with "that's probs not her" and "why would you take nudie pix for a gay," but still, this naked girl sure looks like Vanessa Hudgens! [Fleshbot NSFW]

TV Watch's Rob Frydlewicz notices something sinister in monster Disney smash High School Musical 2: " However, one quizzical omission dawned on me as I watched. Despite its all-inclusive cast of characters (Whites, Blacks, Hispanics, mixed race, smart, dimwitted, overweight, jocks, even a kid with gay tendencies were all represented), where was the Asian-American kid?" Eh, you know how those kids are, Rob, he was probably studying quietly in the library. [TV Watch]

· High School Musical 2 pulls in a staggering 17.2 million viewers, making it the most-watched basic cable show ever. And we still have only the vaguest idea of what it is beyond some footage of that kid who's too tan singing. [Variety]
· Jason Biggs and Lizzy Caplan sign up for second banana duty on the the Kate Hudson/Dane Cook comedy Bachelor No. 2, playing the BFFs who must cope with the hilarious antics of their higher-billed castmates. [THR]
· Nerdgasm alert! Veronica Mars star Kristen Bell is joining the cast of Heroes, which apparently won a battle with Lost for her services on a multi-episode arc. [Variety]
· Jessica Lucas is added to the talent roster of CSI, but officially not as a replacement for Jorja Fox's possibly-dead character Sara. [THR]
· Hollywood's Random Romantic Comedy Cast Generator spits out a pairing of Owen Wilson and Jennifer Aniston for an adaptation of the bestseller Marley and Me, the story of a couple who adopt a dog as a trial run for parenthood. Spoiler alert: Thing's don't go well at first, but in the end, everyone learns lessons about love, adulthood, and responsibility! [Variety]

· Hollywood Out of Ideas, Molesting Bacon Edition: Paramount is remaking Footloose as (in the words of Var) "a full-blown musical" starring High School Musical's Zac Efron, who we're sure will one day go on to become the Kevin Bacon of the Disney Channel generation. [Variety]
· Fox Atomic acquires the comedy Don't Lean on Me, the story of a high school gym teacher who is reluctantly promoted to principal. We'd uncharitably compare it to Summer School, but someone's already defiling resurrecting that classic of our early teenage years. [THR]
· Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix rolls out today on more than 9,000 screens, marking the widest opening in Warner Bros. history. Huzzah! But sadly, as a sequel, it stands no chance of breaking Transformers' impressive first-week box office record. [Variety]
· In a rebranding effort that will forever change the way you perceive the channel where you watch Most Shocking, Body of Evidence, and L.A. Forensics, Court TV is rechristening itself truTV. [Variety]
· NBC's Singing Bee, which endeavors to recreate for viewers the experience of what it would be like to spend eternity in Hell's most popular karaoke bar, starts strong, improving upon on its America's Got Talent lead-in. We are all doomed. For real this time. Oh, and we almost forgot: Fox's nearly identical Don't Forget the Lyrics debuts tonight. [Variety]

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