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Yesterday Zac Efron headed out to the gym with pal Bubba Lewis for a workout.

Efron & Bubba were spotted on their way in Los Angeles, and they looked like they were ready to hit the weights.

The HSM hottie is having quite the year!  It’s no wonder he makes staying in shape a priority.  He’s still filming “Seventeen” with Matthew Perry, and later this year he’ll star in “High School Musical 3: Senior Year,” as well as “Me and Orson Welles.”

If only I was a teenager again …

Below are the winners of the Screen Actors Guild Awards, held Sunday at L.A.’s Shrine Auditorium:

FILM

Outstanding Performance by a Male Actor in a Leading Role
Daniel Day-Lewis, There Will Be Blood

Outstanding Performance by a Female Actor in a Leading Role
Julie Christie, Away From Her

Outstanding Performance by a Male Actor in a Supporting Role
Javier Bardem, No Country For Old Men

Outstanding Performance by a Female Actor in a Supporting Role
Ruby Dee, American Gangster

Outstanding Performance by a Cast in a Motion Picture
No Country for Old Men

TELEVISION

Outstanding Performance by a Male Actor in a Television Movie or Miniseries
Kevin Kline, As You Like It

Outstanding Performance by a Female Actor in a Television Movie or Miniseries
Queen Latifah, Life Support

Outstanding Performance by a Male Actor in a Drama Series
James Gandolfini, The Sopranos

Outstanding Performance by a Female Actor in a Drama Series
Edie Falco, The Sopranos

Outstanding Performance by a Male Actor in a Comedy Series
Alec Baldwin, 30 Rock

Outstanding Performance by a Female Actor in a Comedy Series
Tina Fey, 30 Rock

Outstanding Performance by an Ensemble in a Drama Series
The Sopranos

Outstanding Performance by an Ensemble in a Comedy Series
The Office

Among those on the red carpet, were Eric Dane and wife Rebecca Gayheart (above), Nicollette Sheridan, James Marsden, Jeremy Piven, Eva Longoria, Ellen Page, Diane Lane, Zac Efron, Ryan Gosling, Kyra Sedgwick & Kevin Bacon, Michelle Pfeiffer, Vanessa Williams, Woody Harrelson, Marcia Cross, Cate Blanchett, Amanda Bynes, America Ferrera, Christina Applegate, Debra Messing, Rebecca Romijn, Kate Beckinsale, Sophia Bush, Ashley Tisdale, Brittany Snow, Jamie-Lynn Sigler, Lisa Rinna, Ellen Pompeo and Teri Hatcher.

WENN

TMZ has confirmed that “HSM” star Zac Efron was rushed to Cedars-Sinai Medical Center today suffering from appendicitis. Oh, no, Troy Bolton!

His rep tells us “He had his appendix removed and is recuperating.”

Source, WENN

All six of the High School Musical stars have officially signed on for High School Musical 3: Senior Year, Walt Disney Studios Motion Picture Productions announced Monday.

Zac Efron, Vanessa Hudgens, Ashley Tisdale, Corbin Bleu, Monique Coleman and Lucas Grabeel will star in the third and final installment, a feature film. The first two movies aired to a record number of viewers on The Disney Channel.

Director Kenny Ortega tells PEOPLE he’s excited about working one last time with the cast, a group of virtually unknown actors before the first HSM movie’s January 2006 debut.

“I am the luckiest guy in the world and I know it,” Ortega says. “This will be our last time together and I love working with these kids so much. It’s going to be great.”

Tisdale, who will reprise her role as school diva Sharpay, says she looks forward to returning to East High set in Utah one last time.

“I’m excited,” Tisdale tells PEOPLE. “But it’s going to be sad. It seems like it will be graduation and I’ll be crying while we’re filming.”

According to the studio, HSM 3: Senior Year 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. Joined by the rest of the Wildcat crew, they stage an elaborate spring musical reflecting their experiences, hopes and fears about their future.

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Here’s an excerpt from the mag:

To begin to understand Zac Efron’s particular strain of viral fame, it helps to stop by your nearest department store, drugstore, or grocery store.

A quick glance will reveal his omnipresence. He’s on gift wrap and party cups and trading cards and lunch boxes. That’s his face inside a pink, heart-shaped locket. On pajamas and night lights, cake decorations and lip balm, backpacks and umbrellas. He’s on the official High School Musical digital camera and the official HSM MP3 player. Lately he’s been leaping for joy alongside his cast mates on Honeycomb cereal boxes to plug the DVD release of High School Musical 2.

That sequel, which aired last summer on the Disney Channel, was the most-watched show in basic-cable history. The original installment—also a made-for-TV movie—set the stage for HSM mania; since its debut on January 20, 2006, it has been seen by a worldwide audience of approximately 200 million. The market-research company Soleil-Media Metrics recently estimated that the HSM franchise has contributed at least $1 billion in profits to the Disney empire.

Although there are technically six leads in High School Musical, Efron, 20, is the breakout star, and the cast member who’s become a prime target for the paparazzi. He alludes to this while we’re cruising around his L.A. neighborhood in his black Audi S6, driving past his bland, ordinary-looking apartment complex. “It annoys my neighbors that the paparazzi take all the parking spots,” he says.

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