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Vanessa Hudgens, the Disney Channel star who saw her wholesome image go up in a puff of cackling-Britney-shaped smoke after nude photos of the actress proliferated across the internet, will not be returning for a third slurp at the High School Musical trough, OK! reports:

"Disney finally decided that they don't want her back," an insider reveals to OK!.

"They feel that as long as Zac Efron is in the movie, all will be fine. He's the real star — the household name — and, most importantly, he comes without baggage."

While Efron might be enjoying some flash-in-the-pan heartthrob status, history has shown us time and again where that particular deal with a tweenage Satan can lead. Hudgens, meanwhile, is hardly out of the game; if she plays her cards just right, she can parlay her banishment from Disney's never-nude Eden into lucrative subsequent career-acts as an MTV VJ, E! News Correspondent, View co-panelist, Proactiv spokesperson, and Vegas magician's assistant, in that order.

UPDATE: Hudgens's people discredit the story, claim they are still in talks for HSM3.