On why he refused to go on the High School Musical tour:
“If I had to hear the High School Musical songs anymore, I probably would have jumped off something very tall.”

On not being allowed to sing in High School Musical:
“I didn’t even sing on the first album. It wasn’t my voice in the movie. Even though I wanted to do it. So what do you do when the entire cast is supposed to accept an award at the Billboard Awards and your voice is only on the album in a select few lines. I felt extremely guilty.”

On fame:
A lot of problems you se people having in this business is that it becomes about their personal lives and not about their work. Matthew McConaughey has single-handedly funded the tabloid magazines for the past two years now. If he would put on a shirt and just get away from the beach, maybe there would be a few less paparazzi around.”

On the silver “commitment” ring he wears:
“I’m not even going to say who it’s from. This is just a ring from a friend that I got. ‘Commitment’ is way too weird a word for me right now. I’m wearing it for a friend…It is a female friend, but I can’t say who, because then it would be chat-room pandemonium and teenage magazine-hysteria.”

On criticism:
“I can’t even go on IMDB because I know that so much of it would be negative. It’s just depressing. I know, for instance, at my cousin’s school, there’s a club called the I Hate Zac Efron Club. And I laughed hysterically when I heard that. I laughed because if there are people out there devoted enough to make a club that hates me, I’ve gotta be doing something right.”

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Brucie is currently holidaying on a yacht with actress Tamara Feldman in Sardinia’s Porto Cervo – despite his recent claims to be better suited to the bachelor lifestyle.

Willis met Feldman, thought to be in her twenties, on the set of thriller Perfect Stranger last year and have been dating ever since.

And in keeping with his younger company, the 52-year-old showed off a fit and toned physique that would make men half his age jealous.

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Kate Hudson has already taken her new boyfriend Dax Shepard home to meet the parents.

On July 30, the two lovebirds – who were first photographed together July 13 – flew on a private jet to Muskoka, Canada, where Kurt Russell and mom Goldie Hawn own a home.

Most of the Hudson/Hawn/Russell clan was there (only her brother Oliver and his wife, Erinn, were absent), but Shepard wasn’t shy about socializing.

“Dax fit right in,” says a source, adding that the Employee of the Month actor, 32, played tennis with Hudson’s younger brothers Wyatt and Boston, and helped teach her 3-year-old son, Ryder, how to fish.

“One day, all the guys took a boat to an outdoor market and ate hot dogs. Dax and Kurt were laughing like they had known each other for years,” says the source.

Indeed, both actors appear in the short film Hudson recently directed for Glamour magazine.

Despite the ease with which Shepard got along with his new flame’s family, pals of Hudson, 28 (who split from actor Owen Wilson, 38, in May), wonder what she sees in him.

“Everyone thinks it’s a strange choice for her. Dax is wild and weird,” says one source close to the star.

One reason for her appeal? Admits the pal: “He makes her laugh.”

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BRITNEY SPEARS romped in a pool with a complete stranger just hours after her music video meltdown.

The pictures in today’s Sun Newspaper show the crazed singer pawing at student Mike Encinias soon after sobbing uncontrollably at the shoot for her new single.

Onlookers watched in shock as Brit – who divorced KEVIN FEDERLINE days later – stripped at a hotel pool.

Brit swigged from a bottle of Jack Daniel’s and downed Mojito cocktails before flashing her breasts and playing a game of truth or dare.

American Mike kept his trunks on as straggly-haired Brit – who had a 1999 hit with Crazy – groped him.

Mike was an extra on the video shoot and says she later tried to seduce him in her hotel suite – while wearing nothing but a pair of pink pants.

He said: “I went in and found Britney lying on the bed with her knees up and just a pair of pink panties on.

“She was looking like she was ready – and I wanted to finalise it.”

Britney and Mike had been passionately kissing in the pool of downtown LA’s Standard Hotel just a few hours earlier.

The singer had pulled the plug on the pole-dancing shoot for Give Me More after breaking down and sending the crew home.

Britney’s assistant hand-picked Mike and a group of male pals to go to her hotel for drinks by the pool.

Mike explained: “Britney was drinking Mojitos and she’d been drinking some Jack Daniel’s

“Suddenly she shocked everyone by just stripping out of her top.

“She went into the pool topless – her boobs were exposed and she had a drink in her hand and a hat on with sunglasses.”

Mike says he kissed Britney after her assistant told him the singer wanted to “make out” with him.

He said: “She straddled me and put her legs around me.

“When I started kissing her I did everything in my power – from my previous experience of kissing girls – not to mess it up.

“Britney had more drinks – she was having Jack and more Mojitos in between me feeling her up, her boobs, and kissing her on her neck.

“Her body was very nice. It was sexual and sensual kissing. It took some effort to perfect.

“She is a great kisser – I’d actually say a phenomenal kisser.”

Mike was invited back to Britney’s suite once the party was over at 4am.

He was planning to spend the rest of the night in her bed — until one of his friends collapsed and nearly drowned from all the booze he had downed.

Britney’s bodyguards stepped in and ordered Mike to take his mate home.

Mike added: “In the end we had to say our goodbyes.”

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I’m not sure what all this is about…but okay.

Meryl Streep, Glenn Close and Barbra Streisand are fighting to play Sunset Boulevard diva Norma Desmond on the big screen, according to Hollywood reports. The ladies are reportedly on a shortlist being considered by Andrew Lloyd Webber, who composed the music for his version of the 1950 film classic.

London’s Daily Telegraph reports all three stars have been in discussions about taking on the role of Desmond, played famously by Gloria Swanson.

Close played the role onstage in Los Angeles and originated the role on Broadway, while Streisand has recorded versions of Sunset Boulevard ballads As If We Never Said Goodbye and With One Look.

Ewan McGregor and Hugh Jackman are reportedly favored for the role of screenwriter Joe Gillis in the musical remake.

Who do you think the role should go to?