Zac Efron made a stylish appearance at the amfAR Gala during Venice Film Festival on Sunday, marking his first public outing since his recent hospitalization.
The High School Musical star, 36, looked dapper in an elegant black suit worn over a black t-shirt.
The actor completed the look with a pair of black sunglasses, and sported a light smattering of facial hair.
Inside the event he was pictured mingling with Pretty Woman star Richard Gere, 75, and his wife Alejandra Gere, 41.
It comes a month after Efron was taken to hospital following an incident while swimming at luxe villa in Ibiza.
Zac Efron, 36, made a stylish appearance at the amfAR Gala during Venice Film Festival on Sunday, marking his first public outing since his recent hospitalization
The High School Musical star looked dapper in an elegant black suit worn over a black t-shirt
Efron was hospitalized in Ibiza at the begging of August, after he dove deep into a pool at a villa, with his chest striking the pool’s bottom, leading to him ingesting water in his lungs.
Insiders told TMZ the actor dove into the pool during an outing with friends on the Spanish island.
The San Luis Obispo, California-born entertainer had taken in ‘a large amount of water into his lungs’ after he made contact with the bottom of the pool.
The Iron Claw leading man had ‘showed signs of distress’ in the wake of the incident, sources told the outlet, at which point security officials rushed in to assist him.
He had been ‘momentarily dazed’ and subsequently transported to a medical facility ‘as a precautionary measure,’ sources told the outlet.
Medical officials examined Efron with X-rays to his chest in an effort to determine that his lungs were clear of water, insiders told the outlet.
Efron had been medically cleared by doctors, but took his time departing the medical facility after a group of photographers in the area had learned he was there and congregated outside.
He later took to Instagram Stories with an image of himself working out at a resort, as he lifted dumbbells while balancing on an exercise ball.
The actor completed the look with a pair of black sunglasses, and sported a light smattering of facial hair
It comes a month after Efron was taken to hospital following an incident while swimming at luxe villa in Ibiza
Inside the event he was pictured mingling with Pretty Woman star Richard Gere , 75, and his wife Alejandra Gere, 41
The actors were seen chatting it up
The actor updated fans on his condition after his hospital trip, saying, ‘Happy and healthy – thanks for the well wishes.’
A source previously revealed to TMZ that the actor was ‘found inside the swimming pool by two people working at the villa who pulled him out of the water.’
Efron’s representative confirmed to the outlet that the actor was hospitalized ‘as a precautionary measure’ following the ‘minor’ incident and is ‘recovering just fine;’ as he was released from the hospital.
Ahead of the incident, he joined Dutch DJ, Martin Garrix, on stage during one of his shows.
The Disney Channel alum had been spending time in Ibiza and Europe over the summer.
The actor has past shared his experiences participating in extreme sports, including dives, via his social media accounts.
The incident comes more than a decade after he ‘shattered’ his jaw in 2013 after he slipped on a pair of socks while running at his home, which caused him to smash his chin into a granite fountain.
In 2022, he told Men’s Health Magazine that he lost consciousness only to wake up with ‘his chin bone hanging off his face.’
Efron was hospitalized in Ibiza in early August, after he dove deep into a pool at a villa, with his chest striking the pool’s bottom and ingesting water in his lungs; Pictured in LA in June
He later appeared to be on the mend in the wake of the incident, as he was pictured exercising on social media, and thanked his fans for the well wishes
Efron said that when he was injured, the masseter muscles on the inside of his face and jaw then ‘compensated’ for his injury causing them to grow in size – hence his remarkable transformation.
He says this explains why he looked so different at the time. ‘The masseters just grew. They just got really, really big.’
Following the accident, Efron has been at the center of plastic surgery rumors, but the hunky actor the star insisted that the changes are just the result of shattering his jaw.
The Gold actor also claimed to not know that he was a huge talking point on social media and had in fact gone viral for his different-looking jaw, until his mother called to ask if he had gone under the knife.
‘If I valued what other people thought of me to the extent that they may think I do,’ he told the magazine, ‘I definitely wouldn’t be able to do this work.’
In April 2021, Efron started trending on Twitter after he was seen on a video for Earth Day! The Musical displaying a more prominent square chin and heavier jawline.
In the clip, Efron eagerly called Bill Nye a ‘genius’ after hearing that he and Justin Bieber were working on a fictional Earth Day musical.
It led fans to speculate that the handsome star had sought plastic surgery.
The actor has past shared his experiences participating in extreme sports, including dives, via his social media accounts; pictured in March of 2022
Efron’s pal Kyle Sandilands had also spoke 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 during The Kyle and Jackie O Show at the time.
‘I would know if he’d had any plastic surgery,’ Kyle declared, before telling his co-host Jackie ‘O’ Henderson that ‘of course’ Zac hadn’t had work done.
He then said it would be pointless for the High School Musical heart-throb to have surgery because he’s already so good looking: ‘It’s like getting a Picasso and having a kid finger paint all over it. Why bother?’
Last month, fans once again raised questions about his appearance after watching his new Netflix film, A Family Affair, alongside Nicole Kidman.