Is Leah Michelle going to return to Glee?
It looks like it! In November 2025, Michelle told Glamour she would love to “say hello” to the ambitious theater zealot once again. “I think that I would always love to say hello to Rachel Berry, and I love Ryan and we’re dear friends,” she said. “He officiated my wedding. And so I’m always open to that world and seeing Rachel again.”
Variety officially confirmed her return on October 21. “She’s in,” one source told the publication, while another added, “It’s still early-ish days, but it feels good and we’re happy to get the band back together.” Michele herself has not commented on the news.
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Lea Michele, Back on the Board
For nearly two decades, she’s been one of entertainment’s most fascinating—and polarizing—figures. Ahead of her anticipated return to Broadway in the 1980s Cold War musical Chess, the actor opens up about recalibrating her relationship to ambition, motherhood, the rigor behind her return, and more.
What about Dianna Agron?
Agron exuded star power as the pregnant head cheerleader in season one of Glee, with performances like “I Say a Little Prayer” and “Papa Don’t Preach” forever etched into the cultural zeitgeist. I mean, it’s probably fair to say “I Say a Little Prayer” was a TikTok dance before the app even existed.
GLEE, Dianna Agron, ‘Duets’, (Season 2, ep. 204, aired Oct. 12, 2010), 2009-. photo: Adam Rose / © Fox / courtesy Everett Collection©20thCentFox/Courtesy Everett Collection
