Vanessa Hudgens’s nude photo has been circulating over the Internet! The High School Musical starlet is stark naked. It could, in fact, represent one of the most expensive PR disasters in recent media history.Vanessa Hudgens, star of The Walt Disney Company’s hugely lucrative High School Musical franchise, which has generated an estimated $1 billion of operating profit for company over the past two years.

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The show, like Walt Disney itself, is as wholesome as children’s entertainment gets: one of the reasons it has become such a cultural phenomenon.

Just to make things more difficult, the photograph was allegedly taken by Zac Efron, Hudgens’s 19-year-old boyfriend, and her co-star on the show. Together, the couple are by far the biggest “tween” stars in America, frequently appearing on the covers of celebrity magazines.

It is not known how the photograph ended up being published on the internet.

All this has left Walt Disney company – and its superstar chief executive, Bob Iger – with an impossible dilemma. If it supports Hudgens, will more nude pictures, some more explicit than the first, later emerge? And if it dumps Hudgens, will fans dump the show?

So far, the company has chosen to back Hudgens, for fear of meddling with a proven formula, thus forcing parents across the country to have to explain to their children why their teen idol had disappeared from the screen.

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