When Fox News personality Bill O'Reilly said last month that watching an episode of Glee featuring a transgender character might lead to some kids experimenting with their gender identity or sexuality, Grant Gustin immediately took to Twitter to dispute the notion.

The 22-year-old actor, who pays gay villain Sebastian Smythe on the show, tells Gay Star News that he quickly became aware of the show's impact on LGBT kids.

It's not known if Fox News personality Bill O'Reilly will be watching tonight's Whitney Houston-themed episode of Glee or if he thinks kids who watch it might be influenced into trying cocaine, a drug that contributed to the singer's death.

This week's episode of Glee featured the show's first transgender character and Fox News personality Bill O'Reilly thinks this might lead some of the kids watching to experiment with their gender identity or sexuality.

Tammy Lynn Michaels has not had a regular television gig since she was one of the stars of the NBC sitcom Committed in 2005.

She blames her ex of nine years, Melissa Etheridge, who she faces next month in a legal showdown over child support and custody of their two children.

Even though its ratings are down from previous years, the musical-comedy series Glee has been renewed for a fourth season, the Fox network announced Monday (9 April).

The show currently averages 8.9 million viewers but its numbers have fallen seven percent compared to the previous season.

'Glee has continued its success as a genre-defying, global cultural phenomenon,' Fox entertainment president Kevin Reilly said in a statement about the renewal.

British pop star Joe McElderry will make a special guest appearance in a live musical based on the hit English TV soap Coronation Street.

The gay singer will star in Street of Dreams when it tours to Newcastle's Metro Radio Arena at the end of May.

'I'm such a huge fan of Coronation Street,' says McElderry.

'It's been a huge part of my life since I was a child, so to be a part of this amazing musical homage is really exciting.'

Coronation Street producers have denied the lesbian character Sophie Webster will start fancying men.

In an article in today’s British tabloid newspaper, the Daily Mirror, the character, played by Brooke Vincent, 19, who recently broken up with girlfriend Sian Powers, will start ‘turning the heads of various Street hunks’.

Senior publicity manager Alison Sinclair rubbished the article, saying it was inaccurate and offensive.

The gay character of Teddy Montgomery is set to return to The CW's 90210 later this season for at least one season and may stick around if the show is renewed for a fifth season next fall.

The character, played by Trevor Donovan, joked to Zap2It.com: 'I said I would come back for an episode if they agreed to make it black and white, and silent.'

Armistead Maupin, author of the popular Tales of the City novels, is no longer keeping quiet about some of the political differences in his own family.

Maupin is 'outraged' at the anti-gay rhetoric that is coming out of the mouths of the current crop of candidates for president of the U.S. who he saus 'are using homophobia to rally their base.'

Ricky Martin is guest starring next month on Glee as a substitute Spanish teacher at McKinley High.

But Adam Lambert says he wants to appear on the Fox hit simply as himself.

'I want to just be me,' Lambert tells The Hollywood Reporter. 'Why do I have to be a fictional character?'

Jeff Goldblum has been cast as Rachel Berry's gay dad in Glee.

The Independence Day actor will team up with Broadway star Brian Stokes to play the adoptive parents of the character - played by Lea Michele - and the pair will sing a duet together on a special Valentine's Day (14 February) episode, TVLine has confirmed.

Glee’s creator Ryan Murphy is reported to have originally wanted to cast Elton John as one of Rachel’s too dads but the singer said he was too busy.

Before dropping out of the race to become the Republican nominee for president, Congresswoman Michele Bachmann made no secret of her opposition to LGBT equality.

So it's somewhat surprising to find out that when Bachmann met Darren Criss, who plays one of the highest-profile gay roles on television, she was eager to get a photo with him.