Vanessa Hudgens Had ‘Idol’ Dreams Before ‘High School Musical’

Vanessa Hudgens tells The Daily Telegraph she was all set to audition for ‘American Idol’ before Disney came along. “I love singing and I thought that to get a chance to do it (‘American Idol’) would have been amazing,” the 18-year-old said. “The only way I thought that I would be able to get myself out there would be on ‘American Idol’. But I was 15 at the time when I said that I wanted to do it and you had to be 16 to audition. So I thought, ‘One more year’. Then, when I turned 16, ‘High School Musical’ came along and I got to do it. So I thought I’d skip on ‘American Idol’.” Read more.