Apparently they’ll be more than just Hugh Jackman singing at the 81st Annual Academy Awards ceremony. Much like “Twilight”s Robert Pattinson — who couldn’t get nominated for an Oscar if he was run over by a burning school bus transporting the statuettes, but will present at the show regardless — other nobodies that have no business being in attendance, but provide vacuous star wattage for the clueless tourists who tune into movie culture once a year, like Beyoncé and Zac Efron, will also make appearances. But the latter two will actually sing. Presumably because they don’t possess the necessary qualities to understand the indignities of singing 30 seconds from the label on a can of corn, let alone an originally written song. Other jackasses will be there too according to E!:
Several sources say that the Aussie hunk will be joined on stage by Beyoncé, High School Musical stars and real-life couple Zac Efron and Vanessa Hudgens and Mamma Mia!’s Amanda Seyfried. Dominic Cooper, Seyfried’s costar and rumored boyfriend, will also likely participate, but I’m told scheduling conflicts still have to be resolved to make it work.
We don’t know who Dominic Cooper is, but we already hate him and hope he falls and breaks his neck. Efron and Hudgens will presumably sing snippets of the zero-times nominated “High School Musical 3,” Seyfried will likely sing a jingle from “Mamma Mia,” and Knowles would obviously belt out a truncated version of a Etta James song from “Cadillac Records” (which will surely please the octogenarian potty mouth to no end).
Them Oscar folks are really trying to shit the bed shake things up this year.