Vanessa Hudgens Shares ‘Excessive Faculty Musical’ Zac Efron Reference – Hollywood Life

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Vanessa Hudgens simply confirmed how she and the High School Musical forged are nonetheless on this collectively — even 18 years later. In a brand new Instagram submit following her participation on The Masked Singer, Vanessa, 35, made an iconic reference to 1 particular HSM character: her ex-boyfriend Zac Efron‘s Troy Bolton.

“T as in Troy? No, T as in THE winner of #TheMaskedSinger!” she captioned her submit on Wednesday, Could 22. The caption was most definitely referring to the necklace that Troy offers Vanessa’s character, Gabriella, in a single scene from the hit Disney Channel movie trilogy. Vanessa and Zac, 36, beforehand dated from 2005 to 2010.

Vanessa’s followers reveled in her cheeky caption, as one commented, “Troy Bolton reference is killing me.” One other chimed in, “When you’re an HSM fan you knew it was her the second she opened her mouth to sing ! vanessa hudgens ftw [sic].”

The actress — who’s presently pregnant together with her and husband Cole Tucker‘s first baby — received season 11 of The Masked Singer, starring as The Goldfish till her massive reveal. She opened up about her journey on the present throughout an interview with Entertainment Tonight.

“It was positively fairly the trip,” she instructed the outlet. “A trip I didn’t assume would have an effect on me so deeply.”

Since audiences didn’t comprehend it was Vanessa till she unmasked herself, the Disney Channel alum defined how this expertise made her really feel “utterly free.”

“I’ve been within the highlight for a lot of, many moons now, and there’s only a preconceived thought, I believe, while you see your self on stage, that you just’re accustomed to,” she famous. “And having the ability to take that away and be utterly stripped of that and present up as myself and really feel utterly free to take action, as a result of I used to be utterly lined up actually simply gave me a way of freedom that I hadn’t had in a minute. And it was actually empowering.”

Vanessa elaborated that she signed onto the present as a result of the chance “got here on the excellent time.”

“We had been on strike and I used to be attempting to determine my subsequent transfer, and that is the house that I truly may work in,” she stated, referring to the 2023 SAG-AFTRA strike. “And my followers have been asking for me to sing extra. I used to be like, ‘Properly, that is the best way to provide it to them and see who the actual followers are!’ They usually positively confirmed up.”