Lea Michele is Proud She Never Got a Nose Job

Lea Michele has thumbed her nose at the ubiquitous pressure in Hollywood to be perfect.

When she first started acting, people told her she needed to get a nose job – but with the encouragement of her mom, she held firm and refused.

"I was one of the only girls in my high school that didn't get one," Michele, 24, says in the November issue of GQ. "And if anybody needed it, I probably did. But my mom always told me, growing up, 'Barbra Streisand didn't get a nose job. You're not getting a nose job.' And I didn't."

For Michele, resistance was about more than the surgery. "That's why I'm proud," she says, "to be on a positive show and to be a voice for girls and say, 'You don't need to look like everybody else. Love who you are.' "

Another revelation comes from Cory Monteith, 27, who admits he got into a little trouble when he was in high school.

Monteith, who dropped out in ninth grade, was drawn to "this whole world of excitement and danger outside the doors of high school – this kind of renegade teenage lifestyle," he tells the magazine. "You have to really look to get into trouble in Victoria [Canada] ... but I was industrious. Skipping school. Drinking. All that kind of crap. Things started off innocent like that. I definitely found myself in some places that I'm very fortunate I came back from."

New Release Tuesday!

Here's a list of what's new today on Blu-Ray, CD and DVD including the complete first season of Glee starring: Matthew Morrison, Lea Michele, Jane Lynch, Cory Monteith and Chris Colfer.

MOVIES

Boogie Woogie (B)

Casino Jack: The United States of Money

Invasion of the Body Snatchers (1978) (B)

Just Wright (B)

Letters to Juliet (B)

Looking for Eric

One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest: 35th Anniversary Edition (B)

Paper Man (B)

Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time (B)

MUSIC

Glee Cast - Glee: The Music, The Complete Season One

Linkin Park - A Thousand Guns

Luis Miguel - Luis Miguel

Olivia Newton-John - Grace and Gratitude Renewed

Robert Plant - Band of Joy

Stand Up to Cancer 2010

Trey Sonz - Passion, Pain and Pleasure

Weezer - Hurley

TV SHOWS

The Big Bang Theory - 3rd Season (B)

The Commish - 2nd Season

Designing Women - 4th Season

Fringe - 2nd Season (B)

Glee - 1st Season, Volume 2: Road to Regionals & Complete 1st Season (B)

The Good Wife - 1st Season

Grey's Anatomy - 6th Season

It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia - 5th Season (B)

Leave It To Beaver - 4th Season

Private Practice - 3rd Season

Renegade - 2nd Season

Robin Hood - Complete Series

Rules of Engagement - 3rd Season

Sherlock Holmes - Complete Series

The Twilight Zone - 1st Season (B)

(B) - Available on Blu-Ray

Idina Menzel Spills Glee Secrets –- Sort Of

Broadway star Idina Menzel whetted the appetite of Glee fans when she appeared on the hit show earlier this season, but her brief guest spot -– playing the leader of rival glee club Vocal Adrenaline –- raised more questions than answers.

“There is much more to her than has been revealed in the first episode that I was in,” the actress, who made out with recording artist Matthew Morrison‘s character Will Schuester, tells E! Online. “I will say that her intentions are not quite evil. She’s going to unravel more and show a different side to her personality.”

Whether she’s planning to sabotage the McKinley High glee club or to romance Mr. Schuester, the bigger question is: What is her relationship to influential person Lea Michele, who has a striking resemblance to Menzel?

For months fans have speculated that Menzel will play Michele’s biological mother, a character who has so far been absent from the show.

“Maybe I’m going to be Lea’s lesbian lover,” Menzel jokes. “You never know!” However, she adds, “That would probably be really inappropriate because she’s playing [a character who is] 16.”

In fact, Menzel says the writers have created a “nice resolution for my character at the end of the season,” but she could still be back for more.

“I don’t fall into a hole and break every bone in my body or something,” she says. “I don’t know if I’ll be back. I would certainly love to and they have discussed it.”

Lea Michele, Robert Pattinson & Lady Gaga Among Time's Most Influential People

Time magazine has released its annual list of the "Time 100," the world's most influential people, and some very famous faces made the list.

Glee star Lea Michele was recognized for her role on the hit TV show, which has been praised for encouraging kids to get involved in music programs. No word on why she was included instead some of the series' other stars, but kudos nonetheless.

The ever-fabulous Lady Gaga also made the cut, and why not? Cyndi Lauper said of the pop songstress, "Lady Gaga's art captures the period we're in right now."

Not surprisingly, Twilight star Robert Pattinson was also honored -- for being totally dreamy. His New Moon director Chris Weitz says he seems "to answer Freud's rhetorical question, 'What do women want?'" Weitz can't even criticize Pattinson, or he's "dead meat. That's the devotion the Twilight films inspire."

Some other famous names on Time's list were Sandra Bullock, Ashton Kutcher, Taylor Swift -- and even Sarah Palin.

Glee's Lea Michele: 'I Never Dated Mr. Schuester'

Glee star Lea Michele has denied reports she and her TV teacher Matthew Morrison were once an item.

Tabloid reports suggest the actress/singer and Morrison, who plays music teacher Will Schuester on Glee, dated when they were both stars on Broadway in 2007.

Michele, who plays Schuester's star pupil on the show, says, "I’ve known Matt for years. He’s been a friend of mine from New York. People are going to make things up. I think it’s just because we really are so close."

The actress/singer has revealed she is dating a fellow thespian, but refuses to name him: "He’s a theatre guy. He works on Broadway."

Glee Rocks Madonna -- TV Guide Cover!

The cast of Glee pays tribute to living legend Madonna on the latest flip-out cover of TV Guide Magazine, on stands April 15th. Glee gets into the groove for their Madonna-themed episode, airing April 20th on FOX. Here are some tidbits from the interview:

– On her early memories of Madonna, Lea Michele remembers attending Madonna’s Drowned World Tour three times and styling her hair like Miss Ciccone when attending Bat Mitzvahs.

– Matthew Morrison recalls: “I wasn’t a big fan of Madonna; never got into it. As a heterosexual guy, she didn’t have much impact on my life.”

– Chris Colfer: “I was not allowed to listen to Madonna when I was younger.” “My mother and grandmother had all the CDs but didn’t want me to hear about sex.”

– Mark Salling grew up in a strict Christian home in the South: “Madonna was considered the she-devil.”

– Jane Lynch recalls “sitting at a bar all drunk on Long Island ice teas watching her ‘Material Girl’ video and thinking, ‘How Ballsy.’”

Here's a medley of the Glee cast performing Madonna tunes:

Glee on Tour!

The cast of Glee is heading out on tour in America.

The leading players in the hit musical comedy series, including Lea Michele and Cory Monteith, will hit the road in May for dates in four cities.

Shows confirmed for the Glee Live! In Concert series will take place in Phoenix, Arizona; Los Angeles; Chicago, Illinois, and New York.

The concerts will feature show regulars performing hits from the series.

Wicked Star Idina Menzel Not Coming to Glee, Yet!

Gleeks have been geeking out over the possibility of Broadway star Idina Menzel sweeping her way onto the hit FOX show Glee, but don’t get your broomsticks out just yet.

“I don’t know what I’m doing with Idina yet,” show creator Ryan Murphy said at a Hollywood Radio and Television Society panel on Wednesday. “I just met with her once. It sort of got leaked, but I haven’t plotted it out yet.”

Menzel, who originated the role of Elphaba, the Wicked Witch of the West in the hit Broadway musical Wicked, and Lea Michele, the actress who plays Rachel Berry on Glee and sang Wicked’s signature number “Defying Gravity,” look a lot alike, a fact not lost on Menzel nor her husband, Private Practice star Taye Diggs, who recently said, “We knew that [resemblance] existed far, far before the TV world did.” That resemblance has some hoping the Tony-winner will play the biological mother of Rachel, who is the proud daughter of two gay dads.

While fans will have to wait to see what, if anything, Murphy comes up with, Glee will ease on down the road for Kristin Chenoweth, who played Glinda the Good Witch in Wicked. Chenoweth will return as former McKinley High glee club star April Rhodes in the spring.

“I know Kristin has a huge episode,” Murphy said. “She’s coming back because we write that for her, but there are some other people coming that I can’t say, but they are big music people, so I’m very excited!”

Wicked’s Idina Menzel Would ‘Love’ to be on Glee

Following a guest stint by her Broadway costar Kristin Chenoweth and Glee club captain Rachel’s (Lea Michele) show-stopping rendition of “Defying Gravity” (from the hit musical Wicked), it seems Broadway’s original green witch, Idina Menzel, may pay a visit to McKinley High.

“I know that she would love [to guest star on Glee],” Menzel’s husband, Private Practice star Taye Diggs told Fancast of the Gleek community’s desire to see the Tony-winner play the biological mother of Rachel, who is the proud daughter of two gay dads.

Adding that Michele — who originated the role of Wendla in the Broadway play Spring Awakening — and Menzel are “fans of each other,” Diggs acknowledged the pair’s uncanny resemblance, saying “We knew that existed far, far before the TV world did.”

A Broadway vet himself, having starred in Rent opposite his future wife, Diggs praised the caliber of Glee’s singing and dancing cast, saying he and his wife TiVo the show every week, and “are just so happy to see a lot of these theater kids get the opportunity to do some television work.”

"Glee" Cast Covers Entertainment Weekly

Glee stars Matthew Morrison, Lea Michele and Cory Monteith take the latest October 30th cover of Entertainment Weekly, on stands Friday.

Tony nominee Jonathan Groff – Lea’s costar from Broadway’s "Spring Awakening" – was recently cast as the lead singer of Vocal Adrenaline, the reigning glee-club champs who performed “Rehab” in the pilot.

“He is a male diva – a miva,” says creator Ryan Murphy of the character, who will try to woo Rachel.

The cast is already feeling the effects of Glee mania. “I was at Disneyland yesterday – big mistake,” says Chris Colfer, who plays gay fashionista Kurt. “I might as well have walked around with a target on my shirt, because those are our fans. I stopped and took pictures probably 40 times in between rides. This one lady got a picture of me on the Tower of Terror and had me sign it.”