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Vanessa Hudgens today laughed off reports that her boyfriend, High School Musical star Zac Efron, would be playing the part of Flash Gordon in an upcoming movie."I don't know how this crazy rumor got started," Miss Hudgens told us.

"But there really is no truth in it. As far as I know, Zac isn't even aware that there is a Flash Gordon movie in pre-production. He certainly hasn't been approached and he hasn't mentioned reading a script. Who the heck is Flash Gordon anyway?"

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Forget a personal trainer.While preparing for an upcoming film role, Vanessa Hudgens recently adopted several unorthodox exercise partners – partners who had her in tears by the end of the workout."I trained with Navy Seals for five months," she told PEOPLE at Las Vegas’s ShoWest movie convention. "It was the most intense thing that anyone could ever do."

Breaking from her typical tween roles, Hudgens, 21, will star in the 2011 movie Sucker Punch, an action flick set in the 1950s. "I walk around with the biggest guns you have ever seen," she said.But she credits those grueling workouts for mentally (and physically) preparing her for the role. "I was bawling my eyes out because they push you so hard," she said.

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Born December 14, 1988 in Salinas, California to a father of Irish and Native American extraction and a mother who is Filipino, Chinese and Latina, Vanessa Anne Hudgens grew up living all along the West Coast from Oregon to Southern California.

She began her career in the world of musical theatre at the tender age of 8, enjoy early roles in stage productions of “Evita,” “Carousel,” “The Wizard of Oz,” “The King & I,” “The Music Man,” “Cinderella” and “Damn Yankees,” experience which gave Vanessa the opportunity to showcase her impressive range of singing, dancing and acting skills.

 She made her feature film debut in Catherine Hardwicke’s “Thirteen” opposite Holly Hunter and Evan Rachel Wood. Soon thereafter, she co-starred in the action-adventure film “Thunderbirds” and landed a gig as a recurring guest star on Disney Channel’s “The Suite Life of Zach & Cody.

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