Zac Efron taken to hospital after swimming accident at luxury Ibiza villa

Zac Efron has reportedly been taken to hospital in Spain after suffering a “pool incident” at an Ibiza villa on Friday night.

A source told TMZ that the 36-year-old actor was “found inside the pool by two people working at the villa who pulled him out of the water.”

His rep confirmed to the outlet that Efron was hospitalized “as a precaution” following the “minor” incident and is “recovering very well.”

He was released from hospital on Saturday morning.

The incident comes more than a decade after he “broke” his jaw after pulling on a pair of socks while running home, causing him to smash his chin against a granite fountain.

In 2022, he told Men’s Health magazine that he lost consciousness and woke up with “his chin hanging off his face.”

Efron said that when he was injured, the masseter muscles inside his face and jaw then “compensated” for his injury, causing them to grow larger – hence his remarkable transformation.

He explains that this explains why he looked so different at the time. “The masseters just grew. They got really, really big.”

Following the accident, Efron was at the center of plastic surgery rumors, but the sexy actor insisted the changes were just the result of his jaw being destroyed.

The High School Musical star also claimed she didn’t know he was a huge talking point on social media and had actually gone viral because of his different jawline, until her mom called to ask if he had gone under the knife.

“If I cared as much about what other people thought of me as they did, I certainly wouldn’t be able to do this job,” he told the magazine.

In April 2021, Efron began making waves on Twitter after he was seen in a video for Earth Day! The Musical displaying a more prominent square chin and heavier jawline.

In the clip, Efron enthusiastically called Bill Nye a “genius” after hearing that he and Justin Bieber were working on a fictional Earth Day musical.

This led fans to speculate that the beautiful star had undergone plastic surgery.

Efron’s friend Kyle Sandilands also spoke out on his behalf, saying the Baywatch star would never do such a thing, comparing him to an oil painting by one of the old masters.

The Australian radio host, who has known Zac for years, shut down speculation on The Kyle and Jackie O Show at the time.

“I would know if he had plastic surgery,” Kyle said, before telling co-host Jackie “O” Henderson that “of course” Zac had not had surgery.

He then said that there would be no point in the High School Musical darling having surgery because he is already very handsome.

“It’s like buying a Picasso and asking a child to paint on it with his fingers. Why bother?” he said bluntly.

Last month, fans again raised questions about his appearance after watching his new Netflix film, A Family Affair, alongside Nicole Kidman.