Could nude pictures of Vanessa Hudgens sink Disney's billion-dollar franchise?

Times Online(UK) ^ | 9/9/2007 | Chris Ayres

[JerseyDvl]

By the standards of the internet, the photograph is relatively tame: an 18-year-old girl, standing in a bedroom in front of deep red curtains, pulling back her hair and smiling for the camera.

She’s stark naked, of course.

But this is a nude picture like no other. It could, in fact, represent one of the most expensive PR disasters in recent media history.

[JerseyDvl]

Spears, Lohan, Hudgens all got their start in showbiz thanks to Disney. Vanessa is a beautiful and talented girl and I hope that this doesn't come back to bite her. Some call the pics tame but I do not see how wearing a birthday suit for a camera is something to be blown off as non-incident...especially when you look like her! Decide for yourself and be warned that the pic is graphic or artistic, depending on your personal views. One thing is for sure - Disney has added yet another and considerable more creepy demographic to HS Musical.

http://www.derekhail.com/2007/09/07/vanessa-anne-hudgens-naked-photo-scandal-is-legit/

[CharlesWayneCT]

To answer their headline: No.

If there is damage to be done, it’s already been done by Lindsay and Brittney.

[Doctor Raoul]

Minnie Mouse is going to be so jealous.

[dfwgator]

Did posing nude hurt Vanessa Williams’ career?

[misterrob]

She’s 19 and getting kind of old for Disney. Some of these actors run the risk of becoming what Ralph Machio did in Karate Kid 3...old and fat.

[Badeye]

I’d have to see them first....

[Scarchin]

She’ll be fine.

What I’d like to know is how the hell the photo found its way onto the Internet.

[Clemenza]

Keep in mind that the ONLY Miss America to have a successful career apart from the pageant was Vanessa Williams, who managed to bounce back from softcore lesbian photos published in a major men’s magazine of the time.

[CharlesWayneCT]

Of course, the fact that she posed naked for her boyfriend suggests they are sleeping together, which itself would hurt the Disney “wholesome” image if they still had one.

[ikka]

All she has to do, is claim she took the photo before she was 18 years old - and it will never be shown.

Same thing happened with Traci Lords when it was discovered she was underage while doing porn.

[JerseyDvl]

I am sure she will be fine also. As a matter of fact, I think it will help her from being typecasted.
I’ll bet ‘ole Hugh Hef is trying to sign her up for a centerfold spread before he dies.
I feel bad for her as either her bf or a hacker got them out for everyone to see.

[Clemenza]

Leave Ralph alone! He is a happy family man living on Long Island now. Saw him at the LI film festival in my hometown about four years ago, kids in tow.

Very few actors can have a major success at ANY age. Even those who were child stars/adult hasbeens should count their blessings that they even had such fame.

[weegee]

Disney’s name hasn’t meant “wholesome” for over a generation, when they started Hollywood Pictures, Dimension Films, Miramax, et al and their ownership of the ABC Network has done nothing to alter that perception.

[PBRSTREETGANG]

I thought in Karate Kid III he became...

...Hillary Swank.

[DungeonMaster]

OK post the “where’s the pics jihad picture”.

[PBRSTREETGANG]

I don’t think they’re talking about damage to Disney as a whole.

Just to their High School Musical franchise...which is all the rage right now among young girls.

[GovernmentIsTheProblem]

I never heard of her or the show until she showed her assets.... so it’s working for them already.

[misterrob]

It was KK 3 he did when he was 28.

[SampleMan]

Stupid, stupid, stupid. I hope a lot of young girls learn something from this.