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Out Actor Kevin McHale Reveals Washboard Abs After 12-Week Transformation

Former GLEE star Kevin McHale

Whoa.

For years, Kevin McHale played wheelchair-bound TV geek “Artie Abrams” on the hit series, GLEE.

Well, check him out now.

McHale surprised folks this week as he revealed he’s gone from ‘high school geek’ to gaining pounds of muscle and shedding layers of fat.

In an interview with US Magazine, the 30-year-old says he was struggling with an intestine and digestion issue that left him “constantly in pain.”

After trying several elimination diets, he found his weight ballooning as his confidence began to spiral down.

The actor, who came out earlier this year, eventually found his way to a personal training studio in Los Angeles called Ultimate Performance.

Powering through 4-5 workout sessions a week, McHale was soon on the road to an amazing physical transformation in only 12 weeks.

Key to the amazing progress McHale made was having a personal trainer who pushed him past his perceived boundaries in the gym and into results mode.

(image courtesy of Ultimate Performance)

And, nutrition became a new obsession. In addition to learning to eat a balanced diet of healthy fats, vegetables, complex carbs and proteins, McHale learned to keep a food diary, tracking every bite he took.

“I became obsessed with logging my food,” McHale told US. “I’d also be rating my energy, sleep and digestion each day.”

Sundays became “meal prep day” as McHale would take the time to plan for the week ahead, ensuring there would be tasty food at the ready.

Happy with his new physical condition, McHale echoed the sentiments of many who have put in the work to get on the road to better health.

“[Before,] I felt bad about my body,” he shared. “When you’re investing your time and energy into yourself in this way, it changes so much of your life.”

Check out the report from EXTRA below.

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News Round-Up: May 13, 2018

Some news stories you might have missed: • A mother who is “against people being gay” wrote to Dear Abby saying her 43-year-old daughter just came out as lesbian. Abby knew just how to handle this one… • A Texas teacher was accused of “promoting a homosexual agenda” when she showed students a picture of herself and her wife dressed up as Disney characters on the first day of school. • Starbucks has now adopted an open-bathroom policy following an incident in Philadelphia last month were two black men were arrested while waiting for a business colleague. • An Oregon school allegedly forced an LGBT student to read the Bible as punishment…? • GLEE star Kevin McHale says of his recent coming out: “I think there was zero surprise. People knew.” • The Trump administration continues its attack on the trans community by rolling back prison protections.

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Is GLEE Star Kevin McHale Flirting With Coming Out Or Just Flirting With The Inter-Webs?

Kevin McHale (image via Instagram)

GLEE star Kevin McHale has the folks on the inter-webs wondering if he just came out?

Or he’s simply being mysterious?

Yesterday, he shared a photo on Instagram of two male hands captioned by the American Sign Language symbol for “I love you.”

Many fans have speculated the other hand belongs to McHale’s When We Rise co-star Austin McKenzie, who starred in the Deaf West Theater production of Spring Awakening which featured ASL extensively.

Was McHale trying to come out?

A post shared by Kevin McHale (@kevinmchale) on Mar 12, 2018 at 12:19am PDT

Today, McHale shared a shirtless pic of him reading a book with another guy facing away from the camera in the background captioned: “My favorite way to be anti social #tb“.

I remember in my college days when folks were confused they would jokingly say, “It’s meaning is the same.”

I don’t know what the meaning is here, but McHale has certainly has folks attention.

A post shared by Kevin McHale (@kevinmchale) on Mar 12, 2018 at 10:08pm PDT

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GLEE Star Mark Salling Dead At 35 Of Apparent Suicide

Mark Salling

GLEE star Mark Salling, who recently plead guilty to possession of child pornography was found dead in a baseball field near his home, according to TMZ. Police say it appeared he had been dead for some time. A family member went to a Los Angeles Police Department station at 3AM reporting Salling as missing. The 35-year-old actor was awaiting sentencing in March. He was expected to receive 4-7 years in prison. Prosecutors had shared that he had over 50,000 photos of prepubescent children on his computer. In August, TMZ reported that Salling had cut his wrists in an apparent suicide attempt.

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Former GLEE Star Mark Salling Agrees To Plead Guilty To Child Pornography Charges

Mark Calling agrees to plead guilty to child pornography charges
(image via Flickr – Kristin Dos Santos)

Former GLEE star Mark Salling is facing 48 to 84 months in prison after agreeing to plead guilty on charges of possession of child pornography.

From Billboard:

Under the plea deal, Salling will register as a sex offender and participate in counseling or psychiatric treatment.

Salling admitted to using the Internet over several months in 2015 to download thousands of images of child pornography. Investigators executed a search warrant on Dec. 26, 2015 and found about 25,000 still images and 600 videos of child pornography and 29,000 images of child erotica.

Salling will pay $50,000 to each victim seeking restitution and also agreed not to have any communication with any person under the age of 18 unless the legal guardian is present or has been notified of this conviction. (This doesn’t include waiters, cashiers or other vendors that he’d encounter in public.)

Under the plea agreement, prosecutors are recommending a sentence of 48 to 84 months imprisonment followed by 20 years of supervised release and a fine in an amount to be determined by the court.

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Out Music: GLEE’s Alex Newell “This Ain’t Over”

GLEE’s Alex Newell, who played the ground-breaking trans character “Unique,” drops this lead single from his upcoming EP POWER.

The video, “This Ain’t Over,” opens with a bit of “Rocky Horror Picture Show” homage as Newell’s voice cuts like a laser through the disco/dance/pop tapestry.

The lyrics also speak to personal power:

“No doubt you wrote me off long ago / But now I won’t give up / This ain’t over / And each time you let me off, cut the rope / I just come back harder / This ain’t over.”

The single is out now; POWER will be available February 19th.

Newell hits the road with Adam Lambert February 23rd in Huntington, NY.

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GLEE Star Mark Salling Arrested For Possessing Child Pornography

Mark Salling, former star of the FOX series “Glee,” has been arrested for possessing child pornography according to TMZ.

We’re told the LAPD’s Internet Crimes Against Children Task Force obtained a warrant and served it Tuesday morning, as first reported by the TV show “Crime Watch Daily.”

We’re told cops searched Salling’s computer at his Sunland home and found hundreds of images.

At the time of this post, Salling is being taken to the police station for booking. Our sources say an ex-girlfriend of Salling’s tipped off cops and they investigated before the raid to make sure it wasn’t a revenge allegation.

TMZ updated their post saying over 1,000 images of “child sexual exploitation” were found on Salling’s computer in his home.

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Stars Of GLEE & ORANGE IS THE NEW BLACK Set To Join THE WIZ LIVE Cast

New casting news about the upcoming The Wiz LIVE:

 Orange Is The New Black’s Uzo Aduba will play “Glinda the Good Witch” and GLEE’s Amber Riley will play her sister, Addaperle.

Musicals are not a new environment for either with Aduba having starred in the short-lived 2011 Broadway revival of Godspell and Riley appeared in the 2014 Hollywood Bowl production of Hair.

Check out both singing from the musical theater canon below.

First up, Aduba singing “Lily’s Eyes” from The Secret Garden with Rachel Bay Jones at Broadway Backwards, followed by Riley’s GLEE performance of “And I’m Telling You I’m Not Going” from Dreamgirls.

(via NewNowNext)

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GLEE Weddings – “I Am A Work In Progress”

GLEE heads toward it’s series finale, I am reminded that at one time I was a big Gleek and loved how fresh the show was.

I haven’t watched GLEE regularly in years, but every now and then I catch an episode and remember how much the series has done to bring LGBT lives into America’s living rooms.

This past week was no exception as Kurt & Blaine and Santana & Brittany exchanged wedding vows in a surprise double ceremony.

And look – Gloria Estefan made it to the weddings!