Vanessa Hudgens Uncomfortable With Zac Efron Reports

Beautiful Vanessa Hudgens -- aka Baby V -- admits she's uncomfortable about the attention being focused on her relationship with her "High School Musical" leading man, Zac Efron. The two young stars have been popping up shown hand-in-hand in teen fan mags, dubbed "Zanessa."

Vanessa Hudgens Uncomfortable With Zac Efron Reports

"I like to keep my personal life to myself, so people almost invading it is odd, but I respect the fans. They just want to know more, so … " She shrugs.  Hudgens expects to begin work on her second album soon, and with "High School Musical 2" debuting amid a tidal wave of promotion on the Disney Channel Aug. 17, "I'm looking for a movie to do," she says.

"I've been taking meetings. There are a few offers, but I'm just waiting for the right thing. I want to do something different, not take something just to do it. It's nice to just hang out for a while," adds the 18-year-old, who got her movie start in "thirteen" and spent months on the road with the "High School Musical" live show. "We worked hard on the tour."

IT'S GREAT TO BE NOMINATED: Now that Rainn Wilson has been nominated for an Emmy for his work as the hilariously nerdy and neurotic Dwight Schrute on "The Office," the actor says he could get used to this kind of recognition. "I really had a hard time believing it. I've never been nominated for anything before," notes Wilson, who had previously been known for his work on "Six Feet Under." "I like the feeling of being nominated. I'm definitely open to any further nominations that are out there, even if it's a position with the United Nations or the Supreme Court."

Wilson, who is currently in Toronto filming the comedy "The Rocker," tells us he has already been feeling the love from his fans long before the Emmy nominations were announced. "People always tell me when they have the bobble head." For those unfamiliar with the show, his character has a bobble head figure of himself sitting on his desk. "Apparently, like over 110,000 bobble heads have been sold. It's the most popular item in the NBC store. Right there -- I don't even need to win [an Emmy]. That's award enough," he says jokingly.

The actor tells us he's ready to get back into Dwight's polyester suits when the "The Office" returns from hiatus in a week. "There are already 13 episodes that have been done. Usually it's a mad scramble to get the episodes done, so this is very exciting. I can't wait to get back and start digging into them."

PAYBACK IS A: "Kyle XY" regular, Kirsten Prout, says the tables will turn yet again between her character Amanda and Jessi XX -- the new strange dame in town turning Kyle XY's head with her own missing belly button. Hmm. Mmm. Mmm. "We've got sort of a love triangle going on between me, Kyle and Jessi (Matt Dallas and Jaimie Alexander)," says Prout, adding that little Miss XX "has problem written all over her. She's crazy." The actress who played Jennifer Garner's teenage ninja sidekick in the 2005 "Elektra," says with a laugh, "I went from doing a martial arts movie and working a little bit to playing a girl who's getting her butt kicked by a martial arts pro. I don't know what's going on." Be that as it may, Prout says not to worry. "Amanda is retaliating later on in the series. She's getting her attitude back!" The 16-year-old says she only has about six episodes to wrap the series, then "I'm going back to high school. I don't know exactly what I'm going to be doing afterward, but I know I'm graduating in a year, so I'm pretty excited."

THE BIG-SCREEN SCENE: Fans of Ben Mezrich's best-selling non-fiction book "Bringing Down the House: The Inside Story of Six M.I.T. Students Who Took Vegas for Millions" should know the upcoming big-screen "21" with Kevin Spacey, Kate Bosworth and Laurence Fishburne is only "loosely based" on the tome. That's according to Liza Lapira, who plays one of the six MIT students who beat Las Vegas odds after becoming experts in the art of card counting. "Our characters are essentially from life, and they really did take the casinos for a lot of money, but there was creative license taken," she says, adding, "It's still an absolutely fun ride on its own, independent of the book."

Lapira, who returns this fall in her recurring roles as Agt. Michelle Lee on "NCIS" and CSU Tech Jennifer Lu on "Law & Order: SVU," says she had a blast playing the MIT student living a double life. "Girls stick out in the gambling scene sociologically speaking, so I think it's so ballsy to be in something that's usually a male genre doing something -- not illegal, but scary. Security did chase them from casino to casino, and Security isn't the police, so they could do whatever they want."

(With reports by Stephanie DuBois and Emily Feimster)