More Glee Season 5 news! Newbies Melissa Benoist (Marley), Jacob Artist (Jake), Becca Tobin (Kitty) and The Glee Project alums Blake Jenner (Ryder) and Alex Newell (Unique) have been promoted to series regulars.
Blake and Alex are the first Glee project winners to be promoted from series guest stars, so congrats to them.
The promotions come on the heels of news that original Glee cast members, Heather Morris (Brittany), Mark Salling (Puck), Amber Riley (Mercedes) and Harry Shum, Jr. (Mike) have been demoted from series regulars. The quartet, along with Dianna Agron (Quinn) who switched to guest star status last season, will appear on the show occasionally.
So much for my hope that the Lima newbies would be phased out to make way for a single New York City storyline! Oh well.
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Also, Jayma Mays (Emma), whose character married Matthew Morrison’s (Will) in the season 4 finale, has joined the new CBS sitcom, The Millers, playing Will Arnett’s sister. What that means for her character on Glee is not known. Her appearances on the show had already been cut back last season when she was bumped to guest star. I would expect we’d see little of her in the upcoming season, if at all.
Glee Season 5 premieres on Thursday September 19. The kids were already back to work yesterday, posing for official season 5 photos!