Zac Efron & Vanessa Hudgens’ Relationship Timeline, From ‘High School Musical’ To Today

• Both Vanessa Hudgens and Zac Efron are known for their clip connected the deed Disney movie franchise High School Musical.
• Vanessa is presently successful a narration with MLB subordinate Cole Tucker, however, Zac is reportedly single.
• Zac was antecedently linked to Australian exemplary Vanessa Valladares, portion Vanessa dated Elvis actor Austin Butler for 9 years.
• The Hollywood heartthrob stars successful the 2022 Apple TV+ movie, The Greatest Beer Run Ever, alongside Russell Crowe.

Believe it oregon not, it has been implicit a decennary since the saccharine days of Troy and Gabriella – oregon Zac Efron, 35, and Vanessa Hudgens, 33. The erstwhile Disney actors starred successful the deed movie franchise High School Musical together from 2006 until the last movie successful 2008. For astir 5 years Vanessa and the Baywatch actor were Hollywood’s “it couple”, but sadly they were not each successful this unneurotic for long. Below is simply a implicit timeline of their relationship from their Disney days to today!

Zac Efron & Vanessa Hudgens met connected the acceptable of ‘High School Musical’ successful 2006. (Moviestore/Shutterstock)

Zac & Vanessa Meet

When Zac was conscionable 18 years aged helium met a past 17-year-old Vanessa portion auditioning for the relation of Troy Bolton. It was not agelong until the teen icons were completely loved up and being watched by everyone. When recalling the archetypal clip helium met the tick, tick…BOOM! star, Zac remembered that the transportation was instantaneous. “For each of the spouse things, maine and Vanessa ever got paired up,” helium told PEOPLE in 2007. “I was like, ‘They’re not trying america with different people.’ For immoderate crushed we kept sticking astir [for callbacks]. I don’t cognize what it was with Vanessa, but we benignant of clicked from the precise beginning.”

Even Vanessa remembers the aboriginal days of their narration the aforesaid way, arsenic she told The Hollywood Reporter’s Awards Chatter podcast astir it successful 2019. “We created a enslaved close from the start. We were like, ‘We’re doing this, it’s america oregon nothing,'” she said. By 2007, the brunette quality had casted Zac to play her onscreen fellow successful her celebrated “Say OK” music video. During that clip they were besides going beardown promoting the merchandise of HSM all implicit the world.

Engagement Rumors

Vanessa Hudgens & Zac Efron divided by December 2010. (Matt Baron/BEI/Shutterstock)

By Aug. 2007, Zac and his starring woman were some wearing matching metallic rings connected their close scale fingers. But when Rolling Stone asked the handsome histrion astir it, helium played it coy. “This is conscionable a ringing from a person that I got,” Zac said astatine the time. “It’s a pistillate friend, but I can’t accidental who,” helium added, “because past it would beryllium chat-room pandemonium and teen-magazine hysteria.”

Later successful Jul. 2009, Vanessa shutdown engagement rumors and acceptable the grounds consecutive astir her goals. “I deliberation [marriage and starting a family] is large but I’m truthful focused connected my vocation close present that it doesn’t truly transverse my mind,” she told PEOPLE. Just earlier the duo attended their last lawsuit unneurotic successful Aug. 2010, Zac told Details astir his thoughts connected being single. “Yeah, everyone tells maine that. I deliberation a batch of guys would bask that. But I’m not truly similar that … I rack my encephalon thinking, ‘Why americium I not retired determination playing the field?’ One of my buddies was like, ‘You person nary thought what’s going connected close now.’ … But it’s not successful my heart,” helium said.

Their Breakup

Every teen’s nightmare came existent erstwhile Vanessa and her beau officially broke up successful Dec. 2010. By this constituent the starlet was 22 years aged and Zac was astir 23 years old. The details of their breakup was not publically disclosed but a root told PEOPLE that “They are 100 percent inactive bully friends.” However, a fewer months post-split the Spring Breakers star revealed that being agelong region played a relation successful their breakup. “Long-distance relationships are hard nary substance what. When you don’t person face-to-face time, it’s conscionable different. Having an iPhone helped, but it conscionable wasn’t the same,” she said.

Post-Split

Following their 2010 breakup, the duo mislaid interaction with each different for a fewer years. But successful 2019, erstwhile speaking to The Hollywood Reporter, Vanessa shared that she had lots of gratitude for the romance of her youth. “I could not person been much grateful to person that narration astatine the clip … It was this monolithic improvement and [all] eyes were connected me. And it’s conscionable a truly weird overseas happening to spell through, and by being successful a relationship, it benignant of kept maine stabilized and grounded, and I had idiosyncratic to thin connected who was going done it arsenic well,” she said.

Since her clip with Zac, Vanessa past moved on to date The Carrie Diaries actor Austin Butler, 31, from 2011 until their divided successful 2020. Now she is wholly enamored with nonrecreational shot player Cole Tucker, 26. Zac was linked to respective Hollywood women including Emily In Paris star Lily Collins, Sami Miro, and his Baywatch costar Alexandra Daddario. Most precocious helium dated Australian exemplary Vanessa Valladares, from Sept. 2020 until their split successful April 2021. He is now single and not truly looking for someone, helium told Men’s Health in Sept. 2022. “I cognize that astir apt erstwhile I conscionable the close person, it’s going to beryllium erstwhile I slightest expect it,” Zac said.