Ashley Tisdale and Zac Efron.Photo: Frazer Harrison/Getty
Ashley Tisdalenever fully understood herHigh School MusicalcostarZac Efron’s heartthrob status.
On Tuesday’s episode of theNot Skinny But Not Fatpodcast, the 37-year-old actress, who played Sharpay Evans inHSM, admitted that she"never thought"Efron was hot.
While she never personally felt a physical attraction towards Efron, Tisdale revealed there was one time that she did find theBaywatchstar, 35, to be desirable.
“I think the one time where I was like, ‘Oh, OK. S—. Yeah, he looks hot,’ was theRolling Stonecover,” she recalled of Efronposing in a white t-shirton the cover of themagazine in 2007. “I was like, ‘Now I understand.'”
TheFrenshe founderadded, “I think I just knew him too well and had been best friends with him for so long that it’s like your brother that you’re hanging out with.”
Ashley Tisdale and Zac Efron.Paul Hawthorne/Getty
Back in 2020, Tisdale alsoadmittedthat Efron was her worst on-screen kiss.
“I’ll tell you why it was the worst, okay? I had to kiss Zac Efron onThe Suite Life of Zack and Cody, and it’s the worst because I am so close to him and he’s like my brother,” Tisdale revealed on an episode ofEllemagazine’s “Thirst Trap"interview series on YouTube.
“At the time, he was used to acting on like, Warner Brothers, which is CW, and we were on Disney Channel,” Tisdale explained, noting the difference between the two networks. “And so he like, he tried kissing me with his tongue, and I was like, ‘Get away from me!’ I closed my mouth so fast.”
“I was like, ‘This is Disney Channel, we don’t kiss like that on Disney Channel!'” she recalled, adding that it was “weird” for her because of their longtime friendship.
“It’s just weird when you’re so close to somebody, and we’d already done the movie, I’d known him for years before,” she said, referring to co-starring inHigh School Musicalwith Efron. “That is why it was the worst. It’s just we’re too close.”
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While Tisdale and Efron’s chemistry may have been lacking, theGreatest Showmanstar famously dated their otherHigh School Musicalcostar,Vanessa Hudgens, for five years.
“It started off really organically,” Hudgens, 33,previously saidof her off-screen relationship with Efron, which started in 2005. “I could not have been more grateful to have that relationship at that time.”
source: people.com
