Cory Monteith

Glamming up for a big night on the red carpet, the cast of FOX’s hit television series Glee made an appearance in Los Angeles tonight (January 27) for the 19th Annual Screen Actors Guild Awards.

Cute couple Lea Michele and Cory Monteith hit the red carpet together, with Lea looking stunning in a pink Valentino gown and Cory looking sharp in a grey suit. Cast mates Darren Criss, Kevin McHale, Chord Overstreet also joined the duo on the red carpet before the show.

Naya Rivera was spotted in a sexy black Donna Karan gown, as she arrived at the awards along with co-star Vanessa Lengies. The two girls looked beautiful!

The cast of the musical show were nominated for Ensemble, Comedy; but lost the award to the cast of ABC’s Modern Family.

Glee has just returned to FOX with all new episodes every Thursday evening, with the next episode ‘Naked’ airing on January 31st at 9PM. Don’t miss it!

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Such great news!

Fans of FOX’s hit series Glee have been speculating for a while now over the show’s next season after several characters graduated from McKinley High in the third season finale a couple months ago. Rumours over who would be moving on from the show have been circulating the web, with the cast keeping quiet on whats to come in the next season.

We can all relax now as it has just been announced that the entire cast will be back for season 4!

“They’re all coming back. Anyone who is a regular is coming back. Everyone said yes.” said director Ryan Murphy. It has been said that main characters such as Rachel (Lea Michele), Finn (Cory Motnteith) and Kurt (Chris Colfer) will continue to be major role in the show, appearing in the majority of the episodes.

In an earlier interview, Murphy explained his loyalty to the cast. “It doesn’t mean everyone will be doing 22 episodes, but everyone wants to stay in our family and our world.” He added, “I wanted to make sure those actors know that if they want to have a home, they have a home. If they want to explore new and different things while also having a home, that is also an option.”

Chord Overstreet who plays Sam on the series has been announced as a regular cast member for the upcoming season! Sam first appeared in season 2 before leaving Glee for a while, and returning for the second half of the third season. Congrats to Chord!

Are YOU happy the whole cast will still be on-screen?

Canadian actor Cory Monteith has revealed to Parade Magazine that he is nothing like his television character on Glee. In fact, Cory faced many problems as a young man before he broke into show business. Check out what Cory had to say in the article:

The actor grew up in Victoria, British Columbia, feeling like an outsider. His parents divorced when he was 7, and by 13, Monteith—once a promising student who at age 5 could read at a fourth-grade level—was skipping school to get drunk and smoke pot. Monteith estimates that by the age of 16, when he quit for good, he had attended 12 different schools, including alternative programs for troubled teens. “I burned a lot of bridges,” he says. “I was out of control.”

At that point, so was his drug use. Monteith admits, “Anything and everything, as much as possible,” he says. “I had a serious problem.”

Afraid that he “could die,” his mother and a group of friends staged an intervention when he was 19. “That’s when I first went to rehab. I did the stint but then went back to doing exactly what I left off doing.” Monteith might have continued down that path if not for what he calls “the crystallizing event.”

“I stole a significant amount of money from a family member,” he admits. “I knew I was going to get caught, but I was so desperate I didn’t care. It was a cry for help. I was confronted and I said, ‘Yeah, it was me.’ It was the first honorable, truthful thing that had come out of my mouth in years.”

He was given an ultimatum: Get clean, or the family member would report him to the police and press charges. Although it wasn’t the first time Monteith had taken something that didn’t belong to him (“A lot of things went missing when I was around; I had high overhead to take care of ”), up until that point he had avoided prosecution.

“I was done fighting myself,” he recalls of his turning point. “I finally said, ‘I’m gonna start looking at my life and figure out why I’m doing this.’”

Monteith moved in with a family friend in the small Canadian city of Nanaimo, where he quit using drugs, got a job as a roofer and began the process of rebuilding his life. He worked with an acting coach who put Monteith in front of the camera to do a scene about a guy contemplating suicide. It was a life-altering moment for Monteith, the first time he’d felt the satisfaction of “working hard and being good at something.”

The perspective Monteith has gained is part of the reason he is choosing to speak out about his past now. He tells PARADE, “I don’t want kids to think it’s okay to drop out of school and get high, and they’ll be famous actors, too. … But for those people who might give up: Get real about what you want and go after it. If I can, anyone can.”

Along with career success have come personal victories. This spring, Monteith received a high school diploma from an alternative school he attended in Victoria, British Columbia. And in late 2009, he reunited with his father for the first time in 17 years. “We’d spoken maybe three or four times were so happy they were almost crying. It was a good time. At some point, you realize your parents are human. They make the best decisions they can with the options available to them.”

Be sure to pick up the latest issue of Parade Magazine for more on Cory!

The entire cast of FOX’s smash-hit television series Glee stepped out last night (September 7th) for the premiere of season two at the Paramount Studios in Los Angeles. Leading lady Lea Michele looked pretty in a blue floral dress with new streaks in her hair. The other girls from Glee also looked equally as stunning with Dianna Agron, Jenna Ushkowitz, Amber Riley, Naya Rivera, and Heather Morris all strutting their stuff on the red carpet.

From the guys, Cory Monteith, Mark Salling, Kevin McHale, Chris Colfer, Harry Shum Jr. and newcomer Chord Overstreet were all on-hand to celebrate the beginning of another season.

Guest star Charice also showed up to support the show!

Be sure to catch the premiere of season two on FOX September 21st!

The very first promo for the highly anticipated second season of Glee has just released! The short clip shows some brief scenes from upcoming episodes, as well as the cast singing Empire Stat of Mind pt. 2 by Jay-Z and Alicia Keys.

The season premiere is September 21st on FOX at 8/7 central. Can’t wait!

Glee actor Cory Monteith stepped out on Sunday evening (August 8th) to attend the 2010 Teen Choice Awards in Hollywood. The canadian cutie was all smiles as he posed on the red carpet at the award show. The full ceremony is set to air on FOX tomorrow night (August 9th).