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Samuel Larsen and Damian McGinty to be in Season 4!

'Glee Project' Season 1 Winners Reflect on Experience, Hope to Return!

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Glee Project Season 1 Winners Split - H 2012

Whether or not Season 1 Glee Project winners (and runners up) return to the Fox flagship or not, Damian McGinty, Samuel Larsen, Alex Newell and Lindsay Pearce were grateful for the life-changing experience.

The four reunited recently at the TV Academy in North Hollywood for an Emmy consideration event for the Oxygen reality competition series, where they gathered with Glee co-creator Ryan Murphy, casting director Robert Ulrich, among others, where they dished on their experience -- and gave the packed house a first-hand demonstration of their abilities.

"It's just made me so much better as a person," said Newell -- who appeared in two episodes as Vocal Adrenaline's secret weapon Unique. "Thinking that everything was going to come easy and I was going to sing my way through everything, [the show] made me work, it changed my work ethic and it genuinely humbled me."

Newell, who joined seven-episode winners McGinty and Larsen for a rousing performance of Glee Project anthem "Sing It" to kick-off the night, wasn't alone in his appreciation for the unscripted series.

"The last 18 months have been the best time of my life, and I will accept whatever happens and I will move on or I would love to stay on the show," said McGinty, who performed Bobby Darin's "Somewhere." (McGinty, Larsen and much of the rest of the Fox musical's cast will find out their Glee fate in the coming weeks.)

Following upbeat performances by Larsen (who covered "Here We Go Again") and Newell (who belted out his signature track "And I Am Telling You I'm Not Going," from Dreamgirls), frequent Glee Project mentor Darren Criss delivered a stripped down version of Katy Perry's "Teenage Dream," which he joked he hoped people hadn't grown tired of yet. Pearce, who was on vocal rest, did not sing.

During the hourlong panel, Murphy -- who was in a particularly enthusiastic mood -- tipped his hat to Ulrich, who is responsible for screening the thousands of submissions for the Oxygen contest (the winner of which receives a seven-episode arc on Glee).

"When we did the first show last year, we taped it and I turned to Robert and said, 'I really get how this is going to be: You're going to be Paula Abdul and I'm going to be Simon [Cowell],' " Murphy said to laughs. "Robert is more than a casting director, he's a great cheerleader and roots for people to win."

Following the lively panel, the Season 1 winners -- along with Murphy, choreographer Zach Woodlee and the rest of the Glee Project experts, mingled with fans where several posed for photos -- and presented their headshots to Ulrich.

"People like Damian, Samuel, Alex and Lindsay, I can honestly say, were all people that I knew from the beginning would make it to the top 80," Ulrich told THR. "I just knew it."

source: Hollywood Reporter

Glee Prom Scoop! Damian McGinty on the One Direction Song and What’s New With Cameron Mitchell — Exclusive!

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When Wetpaint Entertainment caught up with Glee Project winner Damian McGinty (Rory) at Thursday night’s New Now Next awards show, the cute Glee star certainly seemed to have prom on the brain. He and the cast have been filming Season 3, Episode 19: “Prom-A-Saurs,” all week, and Damian gave a few fun teases about what to expect.

Plus, as fans wait for the start of The Glee Project Season 2 later this summer, does the charming Irishman have any advice for the next batch of Glee hopefuls? Take a look.

Oxygen just announced the brand new cast for The Glee Project Season 2. Do you have any tips for the new contestants?

It’s actually filming as we speak. Last year we had a lot of cast members from Glee but this year it’s A-List, like there’s been a lot of big people that have been on the show. Like Lea [Michele (Rachel)]'s on the premier so it’s real exciting.

What I will say to them is you know if you had to watch, last season was interesting because the end showed that the people who were themselves the entire way through ended up benefiting the most from the show and you know you have to go into Glee Project believing in yourself, being able to take criticism but build yourself back up again, be a performer and be willing to learn and be yourself and believe. There’s three things: learn, be yourself and believe.

Do you have any early favorite or one that you hope will win?

I mean I haven’t met them yet but they all seem really, really cool. They seem like really nice kids, I’m excited to meet them I really am excited because it’s going to be weird meeting them and being like, you know I was in their position last year, it’s crazy.

You’ve walked in their shoes.

Yeah I’m like I know exactly what you’re going through, you know? But there are 14 of them this year so they’re going to prolong the pain for another like two weeks for the poor kids. We only had 10 weeks; they may have 11 or 12. So it’s crazy but yeah I’m excited to meet them.

What lies ahead for Rory on Glee, and what’s next for your fellow Glee Project winner Samuel Larsen (Joe)?

Well what’s next for Rory is we are coming into the home stretch I think, it starts back April 10th and there is 8 episodes in a row remaining. It’s building up a lot towards the whole graduating thing and where is the show going for next year. Honestly for me at the moment, for a lot of us on set myself, Chord Overstreet (Sam), Samuel Larsen, you know all the guest stars, Grant Gustin (Sebastian), we’re a bit in limbo because we really…there’s ideas being thrown about as to what the show is going to be next year but there’s nothing concrete I don’t think.

Are the cast members nervous?

Yeah, people are nervous because we don’t know what’s going on so we know as much as everybody else sometimes to be honest. So it’s a little bit in limbo but we’re working hard, we’re filming Nationals in two weeks time and there’s a lot of great story lines coming up. We just did a number, we were filming prom this week and we did a really, really cool number that I’m very excited for!

What song is it?

[He hesitates] There were 5 guys, we did a One Direction song the five of us! So it was like a Glee boy band, it was awesome!

You and your roommate, Cameron Mitchell, have both tweeted that you just moved out of your old place. What is the new house like?

Oh my God it’s so cool! It’s amazing; it’s such a cool place. We have it on lease until next April I think. So yeah we were in an apartment but you know an apartment is pretty small and in a house you have your own space. There’s like three floors, we bought a TV, we play FIFA. It’s awesome, it’s so much fun.

So it’s safe to say you two enjoy being roommates?

Oh yeah, oh yeah we’re like the perfect roommates, we just, you know, whatever happens. We wake up in the morning and we think FIFA! We go to bed at night and we think FIFA! But yeah we behave pretty well so yeah it’s a lot of fun.

What is like being a roommate with Cameron?

It’s awesome, we do a lot of jamming, we did a bit of writing. It’s so much fun, we just get on great. Everybody has seen us on TV and it’s just continued. We’re so lazy; we’re both really lazy so it works well!

source: wetpaint.com