✦Included in People magazine's annual list of 100 Most Beautiful People in 2009.
✦Alongside girlfriend Vanessa Hudgens re-enacting Prince Phillip and Princess Aurora in Disney's ad campaign dubbed "Where Romance Is Celebrated" (March 2009).
✦Teaming up with Gifts.com to give away $10,000 worth of toys to patients at the Mattel Children's Hospital at UCLA in Los Angeles on December 19, 2008.
✦Named one of People magazine's 2008 Sexiest Men Alive.
✦Having his wax figure unveiled at Madame Tussauds in London on October 9, 2008.