Drew Seeley Thinks Vanessa Hudgens 'Resented' Him on "High School Musical" Tour Because She Wanted to Sing with Zac Efron

12/11/2024 02:25 PM

Seeley replaced Efron on the concert tour based on the hit Disney Channel Original Movie

Vanessa Hudgens may have been missing then-boyfriend Zac Efron on the High School Musical concert tour, according to Drew Seeley.

On a recent episode of Will Friedle and Sabrina Bryan's Disney Channel Original Movie re-watch podcast Magical Rewind, Seeley opened up about joining the High School Musical cast for High School Musical: The Concert, which played 51 dates across the U.S., Canada and Latin America in 2006 and 2007.

Seeley famously recorded vocals for Efron's HSM character, Troy Bolton, which were reportedly blended with Efron's in the hit 2006 Disney Channel movie.

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"I was never told why they did it the way that they did it," Seeley told Friedle and Bryan. "But I think that they were within about three, four weeks of shooting the actual film, and they had me and not Zac. Me and the rest of the movie cast all go into the studio for, like, four days straight and record all the songs together. So, yeah, I knew that I was doing that."

When the Iron Claw star was unable to take part in the tour due to his filming schedule on 2007's Hairspray, Seeley stepped in to fill the role of Troy alongside Hudgens, Ashley Tisdale and the rest of the film's main cast.

Seeley didn't recall any awkwardness with the rest of the cast. "I hit it off with them," he said. "They were so lovely."

At the same time, he said, "I do think Vanessa resented it a little bit when I was on tour because she was like, 'I wanna sing to my boyfriend every night, not this guy.' "

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Hudgens and Efron met while auditioning for High School Musical in 2005, and later confirmed their relationship in 2007. They went on to appear together in the film's two sequels, 2007's High School Musical 2 and 2008's High School Musical 3: Senior Year.

The couple reportedly ended their relationship in 2010, with a source telling PEOPLE that the two were "100 percent still good friends."

Hudgens is now married to baseball player Cole Tucker, with whom she has one child.