EW.com’s Ausiello exclusively reported 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.

Apparently, Mrs. Obama and her daughters are big fans of the show! 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.

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.

All in all, not a bad stretch for the Glee club: Glee The Music Volume 1 just debuted at No. 1 on the UK album charts, ahead of the ubiquitous Lady Gaga!

Read the full story on EW.com: Exclusive: President Obama orders a command performance by the ‘Glee’ kids

Mark Salling (@mark_salling) and Kevin Mchale (@druidDUDE) have been tweeting from Cory Monteith’s homeland recently. Meaning, they trekked up to Vancouver to watch the Winter Olympics! Mark even got a snazzy HBC jacket like Cory’s.

druidDUDE: In Vancouver for the olympics this weekend with @marksalling !it’s beautiful here!! So stoked!! Thanks HBC!

druidDUDE: hooking it up!! @marksalling and I at our 1st Olympic event! Surreal!!!

druidDUDE: Vancouver is going crazy tonight!!! The best energy woo woo

druidDUDE: Awesome time @ the olympics thanks to HBC! Cant believe im barely missing the us v. canada game!!

mark_salling: Eyo, guess who’s gonna be all up in Vancouver this weekend? Motherfreakin me, ah yeah

mark_salling: Keepin it gangsta at the hockey game, hbc is hookin it up for me and @druiddude

mark_salling: Hey Vancouver, ur so clean, can’t wait to see more of u, thanks hbc

mark_salling: Thanks 2@laineygossip@druiddude matt morrison michael buble and hbc 4 an epic wkend http://twitpic.com/14hnhg http://yfrog.com/4ift0ej

See more pics of the Glee cast members at a private party…

For today, we’re bringing you a commercial that Cory Monteith made for Western Canada Lottery’s lotto game EXTRA. “With more than 8 million EXTRA winners in the west every year, that’s a whole lot of cheering.” At least now we know what Finn would look like in a Cheerios uniform!

After Entertainment Tonight‘s aired an exclusive preview for the back 9 of Glee, I was given this version of the preview to post here! To be honest, this clip is infinitely better since you actually get to hear the music they’re singing, instead of the Entertainment Tonight host’s voice over.

It is full of clips from the upcoming Madonna episode and you can even see guest star Jonathan Groff as the lead singer in Vocal Adrenaline! Exciting! :D

So what do you guys think? Did you see Rachel’s “Team Finn” t-shirt? Hilarious! xD

Note: This clip will expire in a week, but hopefully it will be on Fox’s YouTube account soon!

Several Glee cast members have posed for photographs by Adam Bouska as part of the NOH8 Campaign – a photographic silent protest for the repeal of Proposition 8. Melody from the Glee podcast GleekSquad will be interviewing one of the organization’s founders, so be on the lookout for that. We’ll keep you updated.

Click here for more pictures of Jenna, Kevin & Jane Lynch as well as a behind the scenes video…

This March’s issue of ELLE Magazine will feature a glammed-up Glee cast, made over by the magazine’s Creative Director, Joe Zee! Check out this excerpt from the Access Hollywood article:

“Glee’s” resident starlet Lea Michele (Rachel Berry) was voted “Most Likely To Stick With The Bare Necessities,” and sports a sexy and skimpy nude-colored ensemble paired with nude heels in the spread.

Cory Monteith (Finn Hudson) – “Glee’s” heartthrob – nabs the “Most Likely To Succeed Without Really Trying” honor and is styled as “chic rebellion” with a mix of preppy gear and a leather biker jacket.

Check out all the pictures & video below, and click here for the full article.

Read the rest of this post to see all the pictures in the spread as well as a behind-the-scenes video of the photo shoot…

Check out this interview with Jennifer Lopez where she talks about her upcoming guest appearance on Glee. She says that she would be willing to give them her entire catalog to work with because she’s a huge fan of the show herself. Awesome! Do you think we’ll have a JLo episode somewhere in Season 2?

Source: The Show Girl Dishes with Anthony Bourdain, Alex O’Loughlin, JLo & Stephen Merchant

Cory Monteith was spotted by a Gleek at the HBC Lounge in Canada, just in time for the 2010 Winter Olympics in Vancouver! If you ever spot a Glee cast member, send us your picture at Rob@GleeFan.com, along with your name and where you live (optional) so that we can give you credit. :)

As you probably already know, cast members of Glee love to fool around behind the scenes – as demonstrated pretty well by Cory’s twitvids. Check them out. :) Someone around the Paramount Lot happened to witness this tomfoolery and snapped a few candid pics for our enjoyment! :) A few of these are may contain spoilers, so be warned:

Jenna and Kevin RUN!

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According to their official blog, the Vitamin String Quartet has come out with seven instrumental versions of songs performed by the cast of Glee!

Tracklist:
1) Defying Gravity
2) Don’t Stop Believin’
3) Somebody to Love
4) Imagine
5) Gold Digger
6) Papa Don’t Preach
7) It’s My Life

They are available for download on iTunes.

Comedic actress Molly Shannon, who you probably know from her many years on Saturday Night Live, is being added to the list of Glee‘s famous guest stars! She will be playing Brenda Castle, McKinley’s new “busty” 45-year-old astronomy teacher and badminton coach. Also, she’s a raging alcoholic and pill-popper. Yay! She sounds like a hilarious addition to McKinley’s supply of crazy sports coaches.

Her character will really be getting under Sue’s nails in the back nine, so expect a new passenger on the “Sue Sylvester Express. Destination: Horror.” Do you think we’ll be getting a showdown between the Cheerios and the badminton coaches? I hope so!

Sources have revealed to us that as of today, Shannon is not going to be singing in the episode, despite her frequent singing in SNL sketches when she was a series regular. Also, she has only been written into one episode to date, scheduled to air in May, but we might be seeing more of her if all goes well. Get on that, Molly Shannon fans!

Source: Ausiello Files – Molly Shannon declares war on Sue Sylvester!

According to some leaked casting calls for the back nine, we can expect to see a new character in Episode 1.17, titled “Laryngitis“, which will me filming from February 23rd to March 4th.

The character is named Shawn, and they’re casting people ages 18 to 25 for the guest star role. He’ll be a high school Senior who was injured and is now a paraplegic. He’s described as “a cute, funny jock type.” It’ll be interesting to see another paraplegic in the school since Artie has mentioned that he’s not the only kid in a wheelchair at the school, but we haven’t seen anyone else yet.

Also, in episode 15, “Home“, we’ll see Tracy Pendergrass, a 30 to 40 year old African American guy who is a hip and cool journalist and Peter Gow, who is a 40 something year old male Asian lawyer with a dry sense of humor. There are two laid back movers for an Ohio moving company, Leroy and Guy, who are both big, built dudes. Lastly, there’s a Nurse in a local hospital. She is sweet, pleasantly plump, and described as “very Ohio”.

I found some video footage that somebody leaked online, and so I edited together this video for you guys. See if you can spot Cory Monteith (Finn) and Mark Salling (Puck) on the court. Enjoy! :)

Want to show off your talent to Glee fans around the world? Maybe even a Glee cast member or two? ;) Then this is an opportunity for you!

All you have to do is make a video entry for our contest, showcasing your talent! You’ll have the chance to be seen by thousands of GleeFan.com readers who will be voting on the videos, as well as some of the Glee cast members! :D

We’ll be awarding prizes to the winners:
[Edit 2/26/10: Click on the names of the prizes to see pics of them! :D]
First Place – 1 Signed Glee Script & 1 Signed Glee Poster from the Gleek Tour
Second Place – 1 Signed Glee Cast Photograph
Third Place – 1 Glee Hat

So here’s what you need to do:
1) Record a video of yourself showing off whatever talents you have! You can be singing, dancing, acting, whatever! You can perform a song from Glee, or a song from your favorite band or musical. You can perform a monologue of your choice or bust a move! Just show us what you’ve got. :)
2) Upload your video (no more than 5 minutes long) to YouTube or a similar video site. Make sure to mention that it’s for this contest and link to GleeFan.com in the video description.
3) Send us an email at Rob@GleeFan.com including your name, where you live, a link to your audition video and tell us about yourself.

We will be picking the top 10 videos and we’ll let YOU vote on them during Round 2 of the contest! [Edit 2/22/10: By "we", I mean myself, Tinkers, Travis, Rowell, Laurie and Shelly. =) Trust me, it will not be just MY top 10, it will be a general consensus of who should be the top 10.]

All entries must be submitted by Monday night, March 1st at 11:59 p.m. EST, which is when Round 1 ends.

Round 2 begins on March 8th, so come back ready to vote for your favorites! Good luck, Gleeks! :)

[Edit 2/27/10: If you're wondering about all the negative comments, they're FAKE! Go here for more info on the 1 person who commented with all those fake names!]

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GleeFan.com is seeking new affiliates and giving away Glee merchandise at the same time!

GleeFan.com is starting a new Affiliates page and we want to exchange links with the best International Glee Fansites and Glee Cast Member Fansites!

We will be giving away some Glee merchandise to the winners. You can enter to be one of the 3 randomly selected winners in one of two ways:

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