CYBERSPACE — If misery loves company, then Disney’s scandalized High School Musical sweetie, Vanessa Hudgens, is likely feeling surrounded by love. The reason for the surge of emotion is yet more leaked and alleged celebrity smut footage doing what it does best: circulating through the internet and drawing both wanted and unwanted attention to another popular few mainstream celebrities.The latest sex symbols to protest their on-camera innocence are Golden Globe winning actress Eva Longoria and White Stripes drummer Meg White.

While Hudgens has apparently had the bad luck of either currently or previously dating a man willing to share photos taken of the brunette beauty in her own home, it’s uncertain where the Longoria release is from – or whether White is actually the person appearing in the clip circulating under her name.

A Beverly Hilly, 90210 alumnus with roots in soap opera fame’s General Hospital and The Young and the Restless, Longoria has been proclaimed one of the “Most Beautiful People” of 2003 by People en Español and appeared on the September 2006 cover of Maxim Magazine and in Jessica Simpson’s “A Public Affair” music video of the same year. Her most recent and high profile work has been as an internationally renowned model and Desperate Housewives actress. Having a video of her private sex life with new husband and French NBA guard Tony Parker, was probably not on her list of performances to share with the general public, however.

Those who wish to watch Longoria and her husband get it on will have to pay for the privilege, since the clip is currently only available on some American websites for pay.

Although the authenticity of the Longoria footage does not appear to be vigorously in dispute, both the band members of White Stripes and their label insist that a sex segment currently making the rounds – for free – has nothing to do with anxiety ridden drummer, White.

Calling the situation a case of mistaken identity and a “prank,” a representative for the band, which keeps canceling concert dates, states that “We believe some people have a very twisted sense of humour and this prank is in particularly bad taste.”

Perhaps worst of all for White is the critical viewer comments becoming attached to the online look into what may be one of her more low rent “Icky Thump” intimacy moments. Given that many pundits are using her supposedly inferior skills at maintaining rhythm as a basis for deciding whether the gasping brunette being hammered from a variety of positions is actually White, it’s hardly a surprise that she’s feeling “acute anxiety” about the entire issue.

The White Stripes has cancelled all performances for the rest of the year in order to give White time to calm her nerves – and perhaps so she can take some drum lessons.