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It’s official – the music of Madonna will be coming back to “Glee.” Series head honcho Ryan Murphy confirmed the rumors on Monday at the Peabody Awards in New York City.

“We are, we’re doing a sequel to the Madonna [episode],” he told Access Hollywood.

Earlier this season, “Glee” broke tradition and devoted an entire episode to only Madonna songs, but the date when Madonna will reign supreme for a second time, musically anyway, on the show is the only thing that has to be nailed down. When asked if it will occur next season, Murphy said, “Probably. Yeah.”

Madonna is a fan of the show, after having watched it with her teenage daughter, Lourdes, and the rumors continue to run rampant that she will make a cameo on the hit FOX program.

“I can’t say,” Ryan told Access about Madge’s rumored role. “But she’s sort of the muse of our show, I think now.” She loves the show and has supported it. She gets the show is about arts education and so she’s very supportive about that.”

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Screen captures of Dianna in this week’s episode of Glee called “Dream On” are now online in the gallery. Great episode, loved Neil Patrick Harris and Idina Menzel, but again, was disappointed with the lack of Quinn in the recent episodes. In the meantime, head over to the gallery for the latest additions.

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While blogs buzz with reports that Glee star Lea Michele is letting her newfound fame go to her head, the show’s creator and director, Ryan Murphy, defends the singer, saying she’s a sweet person and a team player.

“[The rumors are] not accurate and not true at all,” Murphy told PEOPLE at the 69th Annual Peabody Awards in New York City on Monday, where the hit musical was honored for its achievement in diversity and content. “Lea is the sweetest, most professional girl. She’s incredibly kind and she’s always on time and she’s always with her cast hanging out. They’re all close.”

As for how to combat the reports — including stories about tension between Michele and her costars — Murphy says he’s offered her advice on how to ignore the gossip.

“I told Lea this would happen to her in July of last year. Just wait, people will start to write untruths,” says Murphy. “I told her, ‘Keep your chin up and it just happens. It’s happened to me and it’s happened to everyone. So don’t pay attention to it.’ But it’s definitely not true. Lea is great.”

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Screen captures of Dianna in this week’s episode of Glee called “Laryngitis” are now online in the gallery. Again I am disappointed by the lack of Quinn in this episode. In the meantime, head over to the gallery for the latest additions.

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Confession: I may have rewound the promo for next week’s episode of Glee, featuring Neil Patrick Harris as Matthew Morrison’s old rival and current nightmare, three times. And when I say “the promo,” I really mean just the three seconds of Harris and Morrison belting “Dream On.” That number has a lot to live up to: According to PopWatch polls, Harris was by far the Glee guest star readers were most looking forward to in the second half of the season, and this duet was the most-anticipated number.

I find it sort of odd that the promo didn’t mention that the episode is directed by Joss Whedon, but perhaps Fox thinks anyone that matters to already knows. Watch the promo (again) after the jump. How many times did you rewind? How confident are you that “Dream On” will end up being as awesome as Harris’ flashback mullet? (Source)

Kristin Chenoweth has hit back at a critic who suggested Jonathan Groff was too “queeny” to play Jesse St James in Glee.

Broadway star Kristin, who plays booze-loving singer April in Glee, wrote a letter to US magazine Newsweek, blasting an article which claimed that gay actors struggled to play heterosexual characters.

Kristin wrote: “I know how much it means to young people struggling with their sexuality to see out and proud actors like Sean Hayes, Jonathan Groff, Neil Patrick Harris and Cynthia Nixon succeeding in their work without having to keep their sexuality a secret.”

The actress is currently starring alongside Will And Grace star Sean in Broadway musical Promises, Promises, and denied the article’s claim that Sean’s sexuality made him unconvincing as a heterosexual romantic lead.

She wrote: “From where I stand, on stage, with Hayes, every night – I’ve observed nothing ‘wooden’ or ‘weird’ in his performance, nor have I noticed the seemingly unwieldy presence of a ‘pink elephant’ in the Broadway Theatre.”

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Britney may need a Plan B! After a whopping 13.5 million viewers tuned in to Glee’s Madonna-themed episode on April 20, Britney Spears’ manager, Adam Leber, began a campaign for a special installment featuring tunes by the singer, 28, Twittering, “Do you guys want to see a Britney Spears episode of Glee?”

Apparently, not everybody does — including the Fox series’ star! Asked about the possibility on the red carpet at the White House Correspondents’ Association Dinner in Washington, D.C., on May 1, Matthew Morrison, 31, told Us Weekly, “That’s a rumor her manager started. I hope our show doesn’t go along that route.” Ouch! (Source)

HD screencaptures of Dianna in this week’s episode of Glee called “Bad Reputation” are now online in the gallery. Again I am disappointed by the lack of Quinn in this episode. That can probably be attributed to Ryan Murphy saying that the baby storyline will be pushed into the background but it shouldn’t mean almost zero Quinn!