Being the president’s wife apparently has its perks.

Sources confirm to me exclusively that First Lady Michelle Obama has invited the cast of Glee to perform at the annual White House Easter Egg Roll on Monday, April 5 — and, barring any last-minute glitches, they’re gonna do it!

Rumor has it Mrs. O and her daughters are big fans of the show. And since a White House gig is an offer that’s pretty darn hard to refuse, Glee’s producers did some lickety-split schedule rejiggering in order to honor the request.

Source: EW

Even before making it big on Fox’s hit Glee, Lea Michele was already a bona fide Broadway star, thanks to 2006’s Spring Awakening. No wonder the theater world is anxious to get her back on the boards. One non-profit theater company in New York has gone so far as to create a show with Michele in mind, the New York Post reports. Reed Prescott, executive director of the New York Theatre Barn, confirms that the brunette belter helped inspire their new musical “Speargrove Presents,” based on a real-life incident in which a town blocked a high school production of “Rent.” He chatted with EW’s Simon Vozick-Levinson about the about the project — and explained why Michele is the best woman for the job:

EW: What can you tell us about the role?
Prescott: It’s the role of Caroline Bonds. It’s a role that’s similar to what she plays on Glee — the queen bee of the high school drama club…. People from the community rewrite the show and take her song out, so she quits the show, which gets misconstrued as a big political move…. At this big school board meeting, she speaks up for herself, and they end up doing a concert of the show at a different location.”

EW: Why Lea?
Prescott: Well, because she has Broadway chops, clearly. She’s actually attended some of our events in the past. We just always had it in mind.

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Today Lea tweeted:

Recorded an episode of the Simpsons today! SO cool!!!! Will let everyone know when it’s gonna air!

We’ll keep you posted when the episode airs. Cory Monteith also recently recorded for the show.

In the latest edition of OK! Magazine, Lea Michele reveals her best diet secret.

“I’m a vegan,” Michele explains. “It makes me feel really good and bright.”

The 23-year old actress is best known for her role in the Fox TV series, Glee. Michele told OK! that she credits her vegan diet for giving her the energy to play the peppy Rachel Berry.

In addition to sticking to a plant-based diet, Michele has campaigned against animal cruelty by posing in an anti-horse-drawn carriage ad for PETA.

Source: This Dish Is Vegetarian

Glee star Lea Michele once had to simulate sex while appearing in a New York play.

Before getting the role of Rachel Berry in the hit US show, the actress appeared in Spring Awakening on Broadway.

But Lea, 23, who went topless for the part, can’t believe she went through with it now.

‘I did a simulated sex scene on stage, which was very tastefully done,’ she tells Now.

‘But when I went back to watch the play I couldn’t believe I’d done it.

‘I was like: “Cover your eyes!” to all the people sitting next to me!’

Glee airs in the UK on E4 on Mondays at 9pm.

Source: Now

Glee star Lea Michele is looking much more her age than in the pinned up and prim ensemble she wore at the Globes.

Her sexy, loose curls were the actress’ way of mixing it up, her hair stylist David Gardner said. “She is very conscious of mixing it up,” he said. “She wanted something clean and more casual.”

To get the volume going in Michele’s abundant brown locks, Gardner put a moisturizing mousse through her hair before drying it into what he calls a “big frizz ball.”

He then put curls all the way around her head and brushed them out after she put on her emerald-green Malandrino dress.

The trick, says Gardner, is to use a curling iron barrel that is a half-inch smaller than the actual size you want the curl. “This way, the curl will fall to the size you want within a half an hour and stay that way for the entire night.”

Also, Gardner made sure to make the front of Michele’s hair flat and smooth. “You don’t want too much volume in the hair that surrounds your face or you end up going from young and fresh to straight out of Dallas.”

Source: LA Times

Glee picked up Best Comedy series but unfortunately Lea Michele lost to Toni Collette. Jane Lynch lost to Chloe Sevigny and Matthew Morrison was beat by Alec Baldwin but Glee picked up one of the big ones which is awesome!

Loads of photos to come tomorrow. It’s late now and I must sleep.

Lea Michele and the cast of Glee have been nominated for a 16th Annual Screen Actors Guild Award! Huge congratulations for the well deserved nod!

The 16th Annual Screen Actors Guild Awards will be simulcast live nationally on TNT and TBS on Saturday, Jan. 23, 2010 at 8 p.m. ET/PT, 7 p.m. CT, and 6 p.m. MT from the Los Angeles Shrine Exposition Center. (Check local listings if viewing via satellite or in HD). Recipients of the stunt ensemble honors will be announced from the SAG Awards red carpet during the TNT.TV and TBS.COM live pre-show webcasts.

Outstanding Performance by an Ensemble in a Comedy Series

30 ROCK (NBC)

SCOTT ADSIT / Pete Hornberger
ALEC BALDWIN / Jack Donaghy
KATRINA BOWDEN / Cerie
KEVIN BROWN / Dot Com
GRIZZ CHAPMAN / Grizz
TINA FEY / Liz Lemon
JUDAH FRIEDLANDER / Frank Rossitano
JANE KRAKOWSKI / Jenna Maroney
JOHN LUTZ / Lutz
JACK McBRAYER / Kenneth Parcell
TRACY MORGAN / Tracy Jordan
KEITH POWELL / Toofer

CURB YOUR ENTHUSIASM (HBO)

LARRY DAVID / Himself
SUSIE ESSMAN / Susie Greene
JEFF GARLIN / Jeff Greene
CHERYL HINES / Cheryl David

GLEE (FOX)

DIANA AGRON / Quinn Fabray
CHRIS COLFER / Kurt Hummel
PATRICK GALLAGHER / Ken Tanaka
JESSALYN GILSIG / Terri Schuester
JANE LYNCH / Sue Sylvester
JAYMA MAYS / Emma Pillsbury
KEVIN McHALE / Arty Abrams
LEA MICHELE / Rachel Berry
CORY MONTEITH / Finn Hudson
HEATHER MORRIS / Brittany
MATTHEW MORRISON / Will Schuester
AMBER RILEY / Mercedes
NAYA RIVERA / Santana Lopez
MARK SALLING / Puck
HARRY SHUM JR. / Mike Chang
JOSH SUSSMAN / Jacob Ben Israel
DIJON TALTON / Matt Rutherford
IQBAL THEBA / Principal Figgins
JENNA USHKOWITZ / Tina

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Lea Michele got a Golden Globe nomination!!! And Glee got the most noms for any TV Show – WOW! Congratulations, Lea & Glee!

BEST PERFORMANCE BY AN ACTRESS IN A TELEVISION SERIES –
COMEDY OR MUSICAL
a. TONI COLLETTE UNITED STATES OF TARA
b. COURTENEY COX COUGAR TOWN
c. EDIE FALCO NURSE JACKIE
d. TINA FEY 30 ROCK
e. LEA MICHELE GLEE

BEST TELEVISION SERIES – COMEDY OR MUSICAL
a. 30 ROCK (NBC)
Universal Media Studios in association with Broadway Video and Little
Stranger Inc.
b. ENTOURAGE (HBO)
Leverage and Closest to the Hole Productions in association with HBO
Entertainment
c. GLEE (FOX)
Twentieth Century Fox Television
d. MODERN FAMILY (ABC)
Twentieth Century Fox Television
e. THE OFFICE (NBC)
Universal Media Studios, Deedle Dee Productions, Reveille LLC

BEST PERFORMANCE BY AN ACTOR IN A TELEVISION SERIES –
COMEDY OR MUSICAL
a. ALEC BALDWIN 30 ROCK
b. STEVE CARELL THE OFFICE
c. DAVID DUCHOVNY CALIFORNICATION
d. THOMAS JANE HUNG
e. MATTHEW MORRISON GLEE

BEST PERFORMANCE BY AN ACTRESS IN A SUPPORTING ROLE IN A
SERIES, MINI-SERIES OR MOTION PICTURE MADE FOR TELEVISION
a. JANE ADAMS HUNG
b. ROSE BYRNE DAMAGES
c. JANE LYNCH GLEE
d. JANET McTEER INTO THE STORM
e. CHLOË SEVIGNY BIG LOVE

Glee 1×13 “Sectionals” preview – can’t wait! The fall finale will air December 9, 2009. Unfortunately, after that there won’t be any new Glee episodes until April 2010. The cast is currently returning from their Glee hiatus and getting ready to start shooting new material soon.