After she wooed her fans with her performance on Grease: Live, Vanessa Hudgens thanked her fans for their support post her father’s demise.
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The 27-year-old revealed on Twitter that her dad passed away from cancer, but still made a decision to do the show, and dedicated her performance to her father, Greg Hudgens. She said to me after the show, “This was really a celebration”. Producer Marc Platt was “fiercely proud” of Hudgens for her professionalism and incredible performance despite the fact that he beloved father died the night before the show. Her version of the tough and rough Betty Rizzo, played by Stockard Channing in the 1978 film of the same name, was highly acclaimed, and her rendition of the poignant “There Are Worse Things I Could Do” was delivered so passionately that viewers could feel the emotions pouring through her.
“They were very supportive of me”. We were so concerned that the Jessie J. number which ends under that structure, we weren’t going to be able to perform as we had wanted to and so, literally at 3 o’clock in the afternoon, an hour before airtime, we got the cast together and Jessie J. and we staged that opening number because we didn’t think we were going to be able to use the structure. “She had to make him proud”, the source added.
“Tonight, I do the show in his honor”, she tweeted.
“I am devastated. Just thinking of my girl and praying for her strength today”, Ashley Tisdale penned. I’ve told her time and time again that she’s my hero. And they came to the show and watched in a trailer live on the Warners lot.
Sunday evening’s airing of the music special featured big names including, Julianne Hough (Sandy), Aaron Tveit (Danny), Vanessa Hudgens (Rizzo), and Keke Palmer (Marty).
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“In loving memory of Greg Hudgens”. I think your dad would want you to do this, ‘ and she said she knew that he would.
