Vanessa Hudgens Through the Years: Her Life in Photos
Singing was the start to a lifelong career for Vanessa Hudgens. Hudgens grew up singing and doing musical theater since she was 4 years old. She starred in local productions of The Wizard of Oz, The Music Man and Cinderella before portraying Gabriella Montez in the Disney Channel franchise High School Musical. She also released studio albums V (2006) and Identified (2008) between movies. Following her time on Disney, Hudgens starred in Sucker Punch (2011), Spring Breakers (2012) and Netflix's The Princess Switch movies. She continued to perform on stage and starred in Fox's live musical productions Grease Live! (2016) and Rent: Live (2019). In May 2024, the actress was revealed to be the season 11 winner of The Masked Singer. During the season premiere, Hudgens alluded to her successful career while under the persona of Goldfish. "When I first started out, I made a splash overnight. But all that success made me feel like I was living in a fishbowl, with everyone's eyes and expectations on me," she said at the time. After being unmasked, Hudgens reflected on the competition saying, "I never knew that this would give me the freedom to purely just do something that I love." "I grew up doing musical theater," she told E! News following her big win. "I've been doing it almost my entire life. All those hours don't go and disappear. I got to bring that with me into the work I constantly do. And this was a really beautiful and fun place to be able to share that." Keep scrolling to see the Disney star's life in photos:
2024-06-08T09:15:30Z
Every James Bond Theme Song, Ranked
From 'Goldfinger' to 'No Time to Die,' we broke down all the tracks that played alongside 007. No matter how directors or actors put their signature stamp on the franchise, James Bond films have a familiar formula. We can expect the opening scenes of the film to deliver on a few time-honored traditions: the gun-barrel sequence, the pre-title teaser, and perhaps most important of all, the highly stylized title credits, set to an original theme song. Bond themes are the secret sauce of the movies: paired with the bombastic credits, they set the tone for the action to come, and speak to the current era of the franchise. (You'd never hear a smooth Sean Connery-era theme in a Daniel Craig-starring Bond movie, after all.) For any musician, recording a Bond tune guarantees a spot in music history—but history doesn't remember all of the Bond themes fondly. Over the years, we've heard the truly awful (sorry, Madonna), to the deeply dull (Sam Smith), to the true classics, like Shirley Bassey’s “Goldfinger.” Here are all the James Bond themes, ranked from worst to best.
2024-03-13T19:31:32Z
30 Celebs You Absolutely Didn't Realize Were Born in the 2000s
Wow, never felt more ancient. Finding out that a celeb you thought was your age is actually significantly younger can definitely make you panic-grab the nearest tube of retinol. Unless you're Bridgerton's Nicola Coughlan, of course, who has seemingly unlocked the fountain of youth and looks 19 at the age of 37. Anyway, between having our jaws drop at Nicola's age and then hit the damn floor upon finding out Reneé Rapp's, we've gathered 30 celebs who we truly didn't realize weren't born in the late '90s. Like, pretty sure my Spotify Wrapped this year is just gonna be Blink-182's "What’s My Age Again" on repeat...in combination with Chappell Roan and whatever else Sabrina Carpenter (a late '90s, baby, don't worry!!) puts out this year, ofc. Anyway, prepare to feel unwell!
2024-07-02T18:27:39Z
