Zanessa @ Young Hollywood Awards 2007

High School Musical stars Zac Efron, Vanessa Hudgens and Ashley Tisdale attend Hollywood Life Magazine’s 9th Annual Young Hollywood Awards at the Music Box at the Fonda on Sunday night in Los Angeles, Calif.

In their July 2007 issue, Popstar Magazine will be confirming that Zac and Vanessa have been dating dating off and on (mostly on) since High School Musical 1.

We never confirmed it only because they never confirmed it publicly, even though it’s been an open secret to everyone around them and to everyone in the entertainment biz. Even their fans are aware of it�”75% of you voted on our site at popstaronline.com that you thought they were dating.

Popstar! was the first mag to promote “Zanessa” and we always did so respectfully�”never revealing private details that we have access to, or using sneaky photos (that are out there) proving they’re seeing each other. We also didn’t want to use other stars’ interviews to “leak” the info because that would be silly since we already knew the truth.

After seeing Zac and Vanessa in the “Say OK” video, that kind of made it hard to pretend they were not an item! It was like when Justin & Britney and J.Lo & Marc Anthony were dating but wouldn’t say it…at first, you go along with it. But enough’s enough once everyone knows.

Still, we’ll be treating them with a lot of respect and won’t publish any deeply private things about them. So far, we have had no complaints from the cutest couple ever. We love them as individuals and as a real-life couple. Don’t you?

25+ pictures inside of Zac, Vanessa and Ashley…