‘High School Musical’ couple Vanessa Hudgens and Zac Efron break up

Disney properties Vanessa Hudgens and Zac Efron, two of the actors from the runaway hit High School Musical, have split after four years as a couple.

21-year-old Hudgens and 23-year-old Efron split amicably, sources told the media, saying that neither of the pair were interested in others, but that the relationship “ran its course.” Efron addressed the issue of fidelity in a recent interview with men’s magazine Details, saying that “playing the field” was not “in (his) heart”:

Efron also insisted that rumors about the romance – that it was purely for business and publicity, and a cover for the actor’s alleged homosexuality, etc. – are “f—king insane.”

“They want you to believe it, and they hope they’ll influence you to break up by making you seem insane for being in it,” he said. “And then you’ll play the field, and then they can write about you a sh-tload, make sh-t up, and speculate about everything. Right now they know exactly what’s going on and it’s not very interesting and there’s no money to be made on it. It’s exactly how it should be. It’s real.”

The couple had been dating since 2006.