The common sense of the week award goes this week to one Vanessa Hudgens. Not two days ago, she was the up-and-coming star of the High School Musical made-for-tween film empire. Now, she’s in that league of utterly embarrassed young teenage starlets, and rumors are flying that she’s going to be dropped from any further HSM movies, and I assume from other Disney projects as well. Why is this? Because, stars never learn, that’s why. It would seem that the spunky brunette took some flat out nude pictures of herself, and as these things happen (see Paris Hilton, etc.), they made their way onto the internets, and now we are at this point.
At what point will these people learn? We live in a world that has a severely unhealthy obsession with fame and celebrity. Being a celebrity means having every last thing you do scrutinized down to the last detail (makes being a celebrity a pretty crappy career if you ask me). At this point, why would you do something as stupid as take goddamn naked pictures of yourself? Yes, they weren’t meant to be released, but this culture has no scruples. It’s just another thing to generate copy at the likes of Star and OK Magazine and E!. Get real now.
So in summation, I don’t have much sympathy for this girl and the fact that she’s probably just confined herself to D-List status and an unlimited supply of opportunities to star in VH1 CelebReality shows. After everything, she should have known better.
