Zac Efron didn't enjoy his trip to a strip club

22-year old actor Zac Efron has admitted going to a strip club with a group of friends, but insists not only that he received the blessing of his girlfriend but also that he didn't enjoy any of it.

As Cover Media reports, Efron and two friends spent several hours at a New York strip club on Sunday night. "The group spent $2,000 on vodka and lap dances," the article reports.

According to Stuff.co.nz:

He insisted he had made the "awkward" call to his girlfriend Vanessa to let her know where he was going.

"The hardest part was calling [my] girlfriend before. That's the awkward call. How do you even start that conversation without sounding like a total a*****e? She was fine with it," Zac said.

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If you smiled in yearbooks, you're marriage is more likely to be a success

In Anneli Rufus' expose on some of the interesting, yet freakily unusual, statistics on divorce and marital success, she reveals that a person who never smiled in yearbooks in high school are five times more likely to have a marriage end in divorce than if you 'smiled intensely in photographs'.

Rufus explains [Via The Daily Beast]:

Two tests, the first involving college yearbook photos and the second involving miscellaneous photos taken during participants' youths, yielded this finding. "People who are optimistic— and that's what smiles tend to show in childhood—find it easier to get along with people," including the people they're married to, asserts Coontz, who is also the author of Marriage: A History. Optimistic types "also find it easier to put up with periods in life that might be difficult." Nonetheless, she warns: "Optimism is certainly not going to protect you from everything, so it's no guarantee." 

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