“High School Musical” star Zac Efron is missing a body part this morning. Luckily it’s one he can live without.
The teen heartthrob reportedly underwent emergency surgery Tuesday to remove his appendix. According to the 20-year-old actor’s rep, Efron was rushed to Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles Tuesday and went under the knife shortly after he arrived.
No word on whether gal pal and co-star Vanessa Hudgens is helping her boyfriend recover. However, the timing of Efron’s medical emergency is noteworthy.
The actor’s hospitalization comes a day after Walt Disney Studios Motion Picture Productions announced that he and his five “High School Musical” co-stars (Hudgens, Ashley Tisdale, Lucas Grabeel, Corbin Bleu and Monique Coleman) had signed on to appear in the big screen version of “High School Musical 3: Senior Year.”
For those of you who do not have children older than 5 or younger than 25, Efron’s star ascended into the Hollywood heavens shortly after he got the role as Troy Bolton in the hit Disney Channel TV movie “High School Musical” and its sequel. He went on to star in the film “Hairspray,” but he is better known to screaming teens as East High’s BMOC.
According to Disney execs, filming for “High School Musical 3: Senior Year” is scheduled to start in the next couple of months. The movie will be the last in the series and will reportedly feature Efron and crew as high school seniors staging an elaborate musical before they graduate.
Studio execs are keeping tight-lipped about the exact plot but did reveal that the yet to be shot movie finds high school seniors Troy [Efron] and Gabriella [Hudgens] facing the prospect of being separated from one another as they head off in different directions to college. But before the Wildcat gang goes their separate ways they put on a spring musical to remember that will reflect their past experiences, as well as their hopes and fears about the future.
I have a feeling the new film will likely go the way of the show’s previous soundtracks, concert series, ice skating tour and Broadway-style show—-instant success that will rake in more than enough to cover the expenses of an appendectomy.
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