(Cover) - EN Showbiz - Zac Efron has joked he spent all his money on taking champagne baths and using private jets to get to the gym.

The star shot to fame playing basketball hunk Troy Bolton the in High School Musical franchise. In 2008, Forbes claimed Zac had earned an impressive $5.8 million, but the 22-year-old has laughed off reports about his fortune. In fact he has claimed he has spent all his cash by partying hard and living a superstar lifestyle.

Well, it's amazing how fast you can burn through how much was I supposed to have earned? $5.8million? - well, when you're living the high life that I lead, taking jets to my local gym, bathing in champagne every night, six butlers on permanent standby, all that money just seems to fly right out of your bank account, Zac laughed to movies.ie.

It's always fun to read these things in the press. Makes my day, knowing I should have earned that much in 2008...

Zac insists he is happier since he left his musical roots behind and took on more adult roles in movies such as Me and Orson Welles and The Death and Life of Charlie St. Cloud.

However, the Hollywood heartthrob admits he may consider reprising his High School Musical role - alongside his real-life girlfriend Vanessa Hudgens - in the future.

Who knows, there might be a good reason to revisit them years from now, when they're teaching or something like that, he said. But I don't really see myself becoming Troy Bolton again for quite some time. (C) Cover Media