We love Zac Efron.

We've dedicated hours and hours to photo montages of the High School Musical star, praising his mature relationship with Vanessa Hudgens, talent as an actor and, of course, hair.

And this is how he repays us?!?

In an interview with The Los Angeles Times, Efron cited the celebrity gossip source closest to his heart. The Hollywood Gossip can only assume we're second...

“There could be 100 tabloid articles about crazy stuff that perhaps involves me and they would all go unnoticed," Efron said. "But as soon as [Perez Hilton] has a single post, inevitably I get like 10 or 20 phone calls from friends or family, or whoever, and so it seems like it’s going in his favor, it seems like what Perez says goes. I laugh about it. I’m just flattered that he’s nice. I don’t know how I got so lucky."

Perhaps if we drew penises on photos and made crude, easy jokes, Zac Efron would like us more!