If you haven’t heard of High School Musical, then…you’re lucky. I’d managed to stay as clear away from the whole tween franchise as I could until I couldn’t sleep on a flight and the only thing on was the second HSM movie–in Spanish. Anyway, HSM is back in full force. They have some reality show on where they audition people for a part in the movie or play or something, hosted by Nick Lachey, and the third HSM movie is coming out on the big screen instead of on TV. The main cast–Zac Efron, Vanessa Hudgens, and those other people–is all back, and there’s a new character as well. British actress Jemma McKenzie Brown joins the gang as a transfer student named Tiara who becomes the “personal assistant/Mini-Me” to the school’s resident Paris Hilton knockoff, Sharpay, who is played by Ashley Tisdale (pictured). [Side note: my Spanish isn't that hot, but basically Sharpay is the Veronica to Vanessa Hudgens' Betty, with hair colors reversed. And growing up, I always thought Veronica was badass and could do so much better than that boring Archie.]
Anyway, why the hell does a high school student need a personal assistant? It’s not like she has a job the assistant is supposed to help with. Clearly this is yet another example of the personal assistant as fashion accessory. First dogs, then babies, and now this.