Pumping Gas Gossip

Good to see Zanessa weathering yet another storm.

Apparently unfazed by her boyfriend's recent naked romp with a hot model, Vanessa Hudgens filled up her tank (while Zac Efron sat in the car) in L.A. Thursday ...

The Hudge gets her pump on while Zac kicks it in the passenger seat.

Click here to see the Zac Efron pics in question - and then click to enlarge more photos of Vanessa filling up below. There's even a shot of her and Zac in the car together.

Seriously, it is. You can make them out if you squint real hard:

[Photo Credits: Splash News Online]

That trust fund brat Barron Hilton probably doesn't even pump his own gas. But he is being pumped for bad gas station behavior by some guy he hit at one.

A station employee says he was struck by Barron's Mercedes during the hotel heir's infamous DUI ride last year - the one that landed him the slammer.

Now he's suing over injuries he claims to have suffered. Fernando Mendoza Tellez is asking for unspecified damages, according to celeb news reports.

Barron Hilton, Paris Hilton and the terrible mother who "raised" them.

The useless little brother of Paris Hilton busted February 12, 2008, outside a Malibu gas station after he sideswiped a pickup truck on Pacific Coast Highway - and the other driver followed him to the gas station and called the cops.

The guy made Hilton sit on a bus-stop bench until authorities arrived. But before Barron could get out of the car, he allegedly plowed into Tellez, according to the complaint filed this week in Los Angeles Superior Court.

Eyewitnesses said Hilton's car hit an employee in the leg. Unfortunately, he couldn't sideswipe Paris in any sort of two-for-one deal while he was at it.

Looking very much like a young Britney Spears, Jamie Lynn Spears fills up at the gas station, baby bump hidden yet again by a baggy t-shirt.

To think that just a few months ago, on a fateful night (or day), it was Jamie Lynn's getting pumped by Casey Aldridge that resulted in ...

Sorry. Worst segue ever. We're saying they had sex. According to a recent report, it wasn't the first or last time Jamie Lynn made such a request.

Anyway, here's a photo of Jamie Lynn at the gas pump. Fortunately, selling her baby pics for $1M will offset the cost of filling up a Range Rover ...

According to Life & Style Weekly, which is up there with In Touch Weekly and OK! Magazine among the very worst best celebrity gossip magazines, JLS has been forbidden from seeing her boyfriend in public by mom Lynne.

Lynne Spears doesn't want Jamie to be photographed in public with Casey Aldridge, the magazine says, and the pictures of Jamie Lynn and Casey holding hands while running errands earlier this month reportedly enraged her.

"[Lynne Spears] doesn't want to keep reminding the world that Jamie Lynn is pregnant," says a Spears family friend.

"She's worried Hollywood won't ever see her in innocent roles again."

Okay, phew! We were scared for a minute there that Lynne Spears was merely concerned about her daughter's privacy, but no, she's worried about something far more important and close to her heart - her precious, precious paychecks.

Don't forget to play this week's Hollywood Gossip Caption Contest featuring a pregnant Jamie Lynn! Even if you already played, give us another one!

Former American Idol runner-up and certified cutie Katharine McPhee flashes that trademark smile we know and love as she pumps gas in Los Angeles.

And Kat's car isn't the only thing getting pumped up - the singer herself has plenty to be psyched for, as McPhee and boyfriend Nick Cokas recently got engaged!

That's one happy former American Idol star at the gas station!

Even in photos like this, where she's wearing far, far too much clothing, our staff adores Katharine McPhee. She's definitely the cutest creature we've done a post on all week ... narrowly edging out Suri Cruise and celebrity polar bear Knut.

Vanessa Hudgens is really getting the hang of this wearing clothes thing.

No longer posing for pictures in her birthday suit, the High School Musical star is seen here with hunky boyfriend Zac Efron, as the couple refills its gas tank before most likely driving somewhere.

It's nice to see Zanessa in such a good mood. Fallout from the aforementioned nude photos had made it seem like the pair were no longer dating.

Needing a Refill: Take away the naked pics, millions of dollars, friendships with Ashley Tisdale and Corbin Bleu - along with the entertainment news photographers following them everywhere - and Vanessa Hudgens and Zac Efron are a normal couple.

Jessica Simpson gets pumped by John Mayer, if you know what we're saying. We're saying they probably have the sex (no one dates her for her personality).

Well, before a trip to Jessica Simpson's love nest, Mayer practiced a different kind of pumping - dispensing petroleum byproducts into his phat ryde.

The price of gas there in Santa Monica ($3.09/gallon) might give most of us a heart attack, but Mayer needs to get oiled up, if you know what we're saying. Forget it.

It's nice to see that he can handle the task himself, though. Mischa Barton would be so proud... and Oprah would no doubt be envious.

One wonders what the expression on his face suggests, however. Are the jugs of motor oil he's holding conjuring up images of Jessica Simpson's jugs?

Probably not. But that is some rack. Damn. Come on, those things are big. They're the current frontrunner in our celebrity boobs poll, in fact!

Why is Mischa Barton so pissed off in this picture? We have some theories:

• She hates pumping gas even more than Nicole Richie does.

• She can't shake the image of Cisco Adler nude from her head. Yikes.

• The curtain she's wearing as a dress could be uglier than a similar outfit donned by Kate Bosworth a few months ago.

• She just realized that Autumn Reeser is a much better actress on The OC than Barton ever was.

We can't say for sure. And we do admire Mischa for pumping her own gas. It's something we can't exactly see anyone on MTV's The Hills doing.

Nicole Richie might not know which way to drive on a Southern California freeway, but at least she didn't forget how to fill up her gas-guzzling, enviornment-raping SUV.

Which counts for something. After all, some celebrities, like Oprah Winfrey, might be trying to save the world, but can't even fuel up their own cars! Then we have Kevin Federline, who only knows how because he will be working at a gas station before long. Or Paris Hilton, who's shown she can operate the pump, but much prefers getting pumped.

By many, many guys.

In any event, here are pics of Nicole filling up below:

Note that Richie ignored warnings of explosive hazards by talking on her cell phone while pumping gas. Just tack that on to everything else that stemmed from her DUI arrest and please, take her driver's license away. Joel Madden had better hope the prison she gets banished to has conjugal visits.

The fashion police surely have something to say about her too. Will you look at this ridiculous getup? This isn't quite as bad as Mary-Kate Olsen and her hobo lumberjack style, but come on, Nicole. Invest in a mirror, for crying out loud.

The last time we checked, horseback riding gear has never been in style - and the only riding she'll be doing soon is in the back of a squad car, anyway.

Was Rose McGowan recently upstaged by a gas station attendant?

And do you, T.H. Gossip readers, even know who Rose McGowan is?

The fiery hot Scream actress and wife of shock-rock sicko Marilyn Manson was pumping gas at a 76 Station on Robinson Boulevard in West Hollywood, where she was harangued by a chatty station attendant who bragged about being on both Entertainment Tonight and in the National Enquirer.

Clearly a celebrity in his own mind. Much like Kevin Federline.

McGowan was totally cool with the guy, who was, shall we say, a tad on the older side, when he asked the actress for some tips on how to avoid the paparazzi. Her response:

"Don't go down Robertson, how's that for a clue?"

She added that convertibles are photographer magnets as well. Lindsay Lohan, take note! She should have also mentioned that it's inadvisable to go clubbing wearing no pants.

Is Kevin Federline so hard up for money these days that he's considering picking up a part-time job at a SoCal gas station? Totally! Check out this pic of K-Fed taken in front of a WE'RE HIRING sign at the local Chevron this weekend.

Actually, he's probably just filling up. No way that Kev is so broke after Britney Spears cut him off that he would resort to this. But he does look and act like most of the dirtbags we went to high school with that are now working at gas stations. You know what we're talking about.

To his credit, he worked at a gas station in his younger years, so probably knows how to pump it, unlike some celebrities. *Cough* Oprah!

Also to his credit, he definitely knows how to pump Shar Jackson.