Lea Michele

[mochakitty]

From Wikipedia:

Lea Michele Sarfati (born August 29, 1986), known professionally as Lea Michele, is an American actress and singer. Michele began working professionally as a child actor on Broadway in productions such as Les Misérables. She appeared in several more musicals before being selected for the lead role in the hit musical Spring Awakening, earning a Drama Desk Award nomination for her performance. She has recently received widespread acclaim for her role as Rachel Berry, which has accumulated Emmy and Golden Globe nominations, in the Fox television series Glee.

Lea at the 2010 Emmy Awards (August 29th, Los Angeles):

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The Glee actress, who turns 24 today, chose an Oscar de la Renta dress, Brian Atwood shoes, a Swarovski clutch, and Lorraine Schwartz jewels.

Before stepping into the E! Glam Cam, Lea shared that she was so excited because “Kris [Jenner] just touched up my hair and Kim Kardashian let me use her compact!”

[JeanBean]

I think she's a serious beeyotch, but I enjoy her on Glee.

Her Emmy dress was too fussy for me - she tends towards a prom style - but the color really suited her. And the top part was nice, I just didn't like all the ruffles.

She lost some weight recently, eh? No doubt she's got her sights set on A list stardom.

[HotLips]

Eh. So tired of seeing her everywhere.

Someone in the Glee thread had good gossip awhile back ago about what a homewrecking hussy she is.

[Deleted]

I don't like this dress. It's kind of ugly to my eyes.

She's a homewrecker?

I enjoy her performance on Glee though.

[kostgard]

There are rumors buzzing that she was pulling the diva act again at the afterparty - saying that she stayed in a corner, making out with her boyfriend while her personal bodyguard kept everyone away. I think she did the same thing at some other event.

I don't know how true these rumors are, but she does strike me as someone who easily could get too big for her britches.

[regencydrama]

Rumor has it, she was a huuuuge bitch during the initial run for Spring Awakening. She constantly missed performances, broke character when her family was in the audience (sang at them, instead of the audience), and was rude to her understudies.

And I don't know if it was intentional, but Lea and Jonathan Groff were both MIA when the rest of the cast came out to support striking Broadway stagehands. Cast members staged a couple of street performances of the show, and neither Groff or Lea made an appearance.

[kostgard]

It was E! that reported her pulling the diva act. Considering they usually kiss celebrity ass, this is probably true:

Lea Michele, who no doubt was one of the best dressed of the night, held court at her table with cast members like Chris Colfer and Jane Lynch, however the babe who lost out to Edie Falco couldn't be bothered to mingle with a few eager fans.

"She was making out with her boyfriend the entire night," says an onlooker a few tables down. "There were a lot of security people there for the event, obviously, but she was one of the few who had her own personal bodyguard."

A couple of people claiming to know Ms. Michele attempted to approach the babe when the scrawny guard stopped them, then tapped Lea to double check.

Our eyes on the scene spill: "Lea came up for air, goes 'No, I do not know them,' and went back to making out with her boyfriend."

The fans, or whoever they were, were not allowed near her.

Guess the birthday girl will celebrate how she wants to!

It goes on to say that Jane Lynch was awesome to anyone who wanted to talk to her.

[angelaudie]

I've head the Spring Awakening rumors as well. But she's very good friends Jonathan Groff who was her Spring Awakening costar. In fact, she introduced him to Ryan Murphy and recommended him for the role of Jesse St. James. She's also been good friends with one of the Glee girls (can't remember which one) since their Broadway days.

She has all these nasty rumors around her yet her Glee costars seem to sincerely adore her. A few have even defended her on their Twitter accounts. It's very Katherine Heigl!

[Witchie]

Ted C. has been the one gleefully spreading the Lea is a diva rumors. Who knows why he has a hate-on for her? I must admit I laughed at the first one, when she asked the photographer if he knew who she was. He didn't. This one, though, is seriously a non-story. The fans lied and said they knew her when they didn't. She didn't interact with them. She told security she didn't know who they were. No diva behavior.

[fabrichnova]

angelaudie, Jenna Ushkowitz (Tina) is the one she knew from their Broadway days. They were both in Spring Awakening.

I'm guessing Lea was a bitch to Ted at some point. I've heard way too many stories of her being a diva to think it's just idle gossip. Didn't Kristen Dos Santos have a negative experience with Lea when she visited the set? Kristen is usually pretty celeb arse-kissey, so I was surprised when she actually said something negative about Lea.

She also has a rep for sleeping around, even during her Broadway days. And she also hooked up with Matthew Morrison and Cory Monteith, then tried to get Monteith fired after the fact, claiming that he was spreading "rumors" about them being a couple... rumors that she herself leaked... ALLEGEDLY![/Kathy Griffin voice].