Lea Michelle’s diva reputation comes back to haunt her at every opportunity; then again, she doesn’t do much to dissuade us from believing that she’s a raging bitch either. Not only does she behave badly in public, including the time that she threw multiple temper tantrums over dresses and refused to talk to reporters at the MET Gala, but she also behaves like a pill in the workplace by acting like she’s better than the rest of the “Glee” cast. She’s also apparently pissed off the show’s wardrobe and makeup departments, who have (presumably) retaliated by making her look like hell on the program.

This time around, Lea’s strict vegan ways were the alleged catalyst for yet another diva fit. Of course, Lea is so very proud of her thin vegan body that she considered posing for Playboy. Now, she’s refused to properly take part in a foodfight for a “Glee” scene because she didn’t want meatballs hitting her meat-hating self:

Lea Michele’s diva persona as Rachel Berry on “Glee” may be no act. Sources say the 25-year-old’s frequent hissy fits had cast members’ tempers flaring hotter than ever during recent filming of a food-fight scene.

“Everyone was supposed to throw spaghetti with meatballs, salad, and other assorted foods at each other,” an insider tells Star. “Lea pitched a fit, wanting no part of it.

She is a vegan and a strong believer in not eating any meat products. The thought of being hit by meatballs grossed her out, so she was adamant that absolutely none be thrown her way!”

Producers instructed the cast, crew and extras to throw only salad at “Princess Lea” and told them that if they disobeyed, “they would be kicked off set immediately,” says the source.

So her food-fight costars took full advantage of the vegetarian option. “everyone armed themselves with tons of salad to throw her way,” reveals the insider.

Glee staffers say Lea’s imperious manner is nothing new. “She doesn’t even like to look the other actors in the eye,” says the source. “She thinks she’s better than everyone else.”

[From Star, print edition, 10/31/2011]

In Lea’s defense, I’m a vegetarian, and I wouldn’t want to have meatballs thrown at me either. Since I don’t eat meat for health reasons and not as a result of any animal-rights activism, my rationale wouldn’t be because I think that meatballs are gross or anything like that. Instead, I’d be more worried about being tempted to catch them in my mouth. In fact, I crave meatballs with a serious vengeance. Maybe that’s what Lea’s secretly afraid of too? Nah … she’s just a bitch.

Photos courtesy of Fame

Here’s a story in the NY Post that sounds very likely to be true, given all we’ve heard from Christina Aguilera to date. Apparently Aguilera is behaving like a drunken diva on the set of The Voice, and is getting into bickering fights with Adam Levine on camera while refusing to talk to any of her fellow judges when the cameras aren’t on. What’s more is that she rolls with a huge entourage, gets paid about triple an episode more than the other judges, and is late constantly. Again, this is typical behavior from XTina the narcissist who is never personally responsible for anything she does, has an excuse for everything, and blames her every mistake on other people paying attention to her. She’s going to lift herself up from that background of domestic abuse she brings up in every single interview and the horrible nasty press that drags her down. We just need to let her be Christina and join all the other sycophants and enablers that surround her like an overpaid bubble of yes men. Why can’t we just understand that no one ever says “no” to her?

Tensions are bubbling backstage on NBC’s hit “The Voice” between Christina Aguilera and rival judge Maroon 5 frontman Adam Levine.

Sources tell Page Six fellow judges Levine and Blake Shelton have formed an alliance against Aguilera, whose much bigger paycheck, attention-stealing diva stunts and doting makeup team have rubbed the guys the wrong way.

Low-key Levine can’t grasp why Aguilera, who seems to get on a little better with Cee Lo Green, is being paid $225,000 per episode, in comparison to their $75,000 rate, and has a huge entourage, including two hair and makeup people, a producer and an assistant.

“They are all so annoyed by her,” a source told us. “Every time she walks away with her entourage, they talk about her behind her back. She holds people up and never apologizes.”

While Aguilera is the most vocal on the show, sources say she won’t speak to the other judges during commercial breaks.

“When the cameras are rolling, she literally won’t shut up,” an insider told us. “It is all about her.”

The production team is also playing into the rift — Aguilera’s supporters wear “Team Christina” T-shirts on the Studio City set.

Despite the differences, another source said the judges appeared to be getting along after the show Tuesday night at a bash thrown by Shelton and Miranda Lambert, at which Aguilera was still wearing her “Team Christina” shirt.

We hear that despite the disagreements, Aguilera and Levine are working together and recently recorded a track that will be released Tuesday.

[From The NY Post]

As many of you mentioned in our last story on XTina’s Voice gig, she’s revealing what a petty person she is with every episode basically. I’ve only seen a few episodes of The Voice, and she’s come across as superficial and self centered, and she often picks fights with Adam. She isn’t terrible, though, probably because no one is calling her on her sh*t. She’s thinks the star, but right now she’s just a (very talented) singer whose last CD tanked, whose tour got canceled, and who is hanging on to her new gig on a competition reality show by the skin of her teeth. Do you think she’s going to get hired for more jobs, or even hold on to this one, if that’s the way she treats her coworkers?

Christina is shown on 6/3/11. Credit: Fame and Pacific Coast News

There’s a big story on the front page of the Lifestyle section of USA Today Weekendall about how Jennifer Lopez is having a career resurgence now that she’s on Idol, has a top digital single somehow, and is endorsing Gillette and L’Oreal products. She has a new album coming out in April and she’s promoting that too. Whenever we hear from Lopez she seems to be working hard to shed those diva stories, and this profile is no different. Some choice quotes include:

“Her down-to-earth appeal [on Idol] has pretty well erased the spoiled diva image that had followed her for so many years. And that’s something no amount of money can buy,” – pop music critic George Varga…

“I was just saying last night to Marc, ‘I am so ready to just bite into some role so hard.’ And he said, ‘I know, I can feel your creative juice going crazy.’ ”

As with the public, Hollywood is seeing a different side of Lopez, too, [her manager] Benny Medina says. “There’s a quality of filmmakers and other creative people in the industry that are being drawn to work with her. One of the greatest byproducts of this particular time is this new introduction of Jennifer Lopez to a community that’s always known her but had misconceptions about her.”

[From USA Today]

Only how much has Lopez changed really? She may get visibly moved by contestants on Idol, and I’ve been watching a little this season and I’ll admit that she’s doing a great job at changing her image. Those diva stories just won’t die, though. The National Enquirer reports this week that she was so demanding while staying at the Mirage in Vegas during Idol auditions that “she was one of the most difficult celebrities the staff had ever encountered.”

“Within five minutes of her arrival, her assistant had demanded two cribs for her 3-year-old twins, Max and Emme. A runner from the show was quickly sent out to buy cribs and assemble them, and that was explained to Jennifer. But within minutes, she called down to reception wanting to know where they were,” said the insider.

In the next hour, the impatient 41 year-old singer called 20 times demanding the cribs.

“She was boiling with rage that they weren’t ready – but it was the responsibility of ‘Idol’ producers to provide her cribs, not the hotel. She was every bit the prima donna.”

After the cribs arrived, J.Lo turned her attention to her wardrobe.

“She ordered 12 racks for her wardrobe changes, 20 mirrors and a ton of spotlights for her makeup team,” said the insider.

“There were around 50 people in her villa dealing with her makeup, hair and wardrobe – but the funny part is, she wore only two outfits during the entire two days of filming!”

[From The National Enquirer, print edition, March 28, 2011]

If Lopez’s twins were getting tired and fussy and she can’t get them to go to sleep in a big bed, I guess I understand her freaking out about the cribs. It must be frustrating to have two cranky toddlers at once. The wardrobe stuff is out of hand, though. This could possibly all be Idol’s fault for not having all the equipment necessary to satisfy La Lopez. I get the feeling she decides on the spur of the moment what she wants though, and expects everyone else to jump.

Here’s a link to a new photo of Lopez with her twins on the set of Idol.

Jennifer Lopez is shown on 3/2/11 (White outfit, credit: Fame) and 3/3/11 (Ridiculous checkered outfit, Credit: WENN.com

Stories about diva discord have plagued Gossip Girl for the three years the show has been on the air. Just last year, the Enquirer had a story about Blake Lively and Leighton Meester trying to one-up each other on set and off, especially when it came to fashion, career and media. Now In Touch Weekly has another variation – their sources claim that Leighton is the good girl, the professional who simply likes having a job, while Blake is the diva who fancies herself a major star, to the point where she thinks she’s too good for Gossip Girl:

The tension between Gossip Girl beauties Blake Lively and Leighton Meester is going into overdrive, according to a setsider, who says the acresses are complete opposites.

“Blake is a huge diva! She sees herself as the star of the show,” says an insider. “Leighton is pretty low-key.”

According to another insider, the two women “totally avoid each other between takes. Blake’s been getting a lot of attention this year – she’s done a movie with Ben Affleck and another with Ryan Reynolds…she’s talking about leaving the show, and Leighton and other are really fed up.”

[From In Touch Weekly, print edition]

Since I don’t watch Gossip Girl, I’m not going to make a judgment call on who and who is not the star of that show. It was my understanding that while Blake might get top billing over Leighton, Leighton has more of a fan-base. And while Blake might get to say “I worked with and under Ben Affleck,” Leighton is no slouch either. Her starring role (with Minka Kelly) in The Roommate just came in number one at the box office last weekend. While The Roommate got awful reviews (just as Country Strong did, which Leighton also had a part in), having a number one movie will be good for Leighton’s career. So the next time Blake rolls her eyes and says “God, I wish I was on a set with Ben Affleck right now…” Leighton should be all “Yeah, I wish you were too. STFU or GTFO, Bolt-Ons.”

Photos courtesy of WENN.

We were just sent Lea Michele’s cover shoot & interview excerpts for the November issue of Marie Claire UK. Oh. My. God. This chick is… crazy. I mean… I feel like a total bitch for criticizing her whenever I write about her, but my God, she really, really needs to take it down a notch. Just to do full-disclosure – I read about Lea’s diva antics before I even saw Glee. I still haven’t ever seen a full episode, but I get it. I get why people like the show. I get that Lea was typecast as the anal retentive tight-ass diva, probably because that’s who she is in real life. And I really believe that as Glee continues to succeed, it’s just going to get worse.

Okay – the Marie Claire slideshow is here, with some interview excepts. Here is what I’ve pulled out, and we’ll discuss this once you’re done. Take notes!

Lea on the pre-Glee days: ‘I was told by agents and casting directors I wasn’t right for TV,’ the self confessed Gleek says of her early days in the industry. ‘I didn’t feel that but I was told it and you believe it. I was always working on Broadway and auditioning for TV – things like Law & Order – but there was never anything’.

Lea is not a party girl: This gorgeous glee girl’s all grown up. But far from falling out of night clubs, there are no wild night’s out for the star. ‘These days I have one glass of wine and I’m completely gone,’ she says, sizzling in a Marchesa jacket and eye watering Givenchy heels. ‘I’ve never been a “Lets go out and have a cosmopolitan” kind of girl. I don’t even think I’ve ever tasted a cosmopolitan before.’ In fact, she’s actually oh-so-grounded. ‘This show would be a huge pressure on someone who wanted to rebel and who want to party, but I don’t have those needs or wants,’ she says. ‘I don’t smoke and I don’t do drugs,’ she says. ‘This show would be a huge pressure on someone who wanted to rebel and who wants to party, but I don’t have those needs or wants.’

Lea on her own beauty: Lea got glam in dazzling D&G as she posed for the snappers, stepping into some simple Louboutin heels to finish the look. And she definitely shone for the cameras. ‘Glee has made me feel beautiful. Now when people say that I don’t feel like they’re lying. Glee has shown me that I am beautiful, that I can be beautiful no matter what I look like, what my weight it is. I grew up in a community where what I looked like wasn’t considered beautiful and then I work on this show that proves it doesn’t matter what you look like, that you’re beautiful and that beauty is on the inside… so, yeah, I’m thankful.’

Lea on her tattoos: And her secret vice? Tattoos. She has nine, each chronicling a significant milestone in her life. ‘They’re all tiny. I mean, you saw me in the shoot today, I was practically nude. Did you see any? No. I’m telling you, I have nine. All so, so, so little.’

Lea on how great Glee is: As a self-confessed Gleek, Lea’s Glee’s number one fan. ‘What I love about our show is that it opens your eyes to a lot of things without being preachy,’ she says.

Lea on how her teachers were jealous of her: But despite her early break, she went relatively unnoticed at school. ‘My acting teacher and music teachers didn’t really like me and they kind of ignored me. I think that they were threatened by the fact that I had worked before. Maybe it made them feel uncomfortable. I would have loved for them to have taught me but maybe they felt like they couldn’t. They just ignored me and didn’t really pay attention to me.’ When asked how that made her feel, Lea says: ’Like they were stupid, that it was pretty silly of them. I’m on a show called Glee right now and I could sing their praises, but unfortunately I don’t have anything to say.’

Lea on how she’s not a diva: Despite Glee’s international success, Lea’s no diva. ‘I feel very equal to my cast and I feel like I couldn’t do what I do without them,’ she says.

[From Marie Claire UK]

The two parts that immediately jumped out at me and had me rolling my eyes were the “I’m so gorgeous” part and the “my teachers were totally jealous of me” part. For goodness sake! Yes, the girl is cute, and yes, she’s got a great voice. But she really thinks she’s the second coming of Barbra Streisand, doesn’t she? And while I think it’s great that a young star – with her first blush of international stardom – is still level-headed and confident, Lea’s blowing “confident” out of the water. She’s treading into some very narcissistic waters, and a little humility never hurt anyone. Especially considering that while Glee is popular right now, I personally don’t think it’s going to still be on the air in two years. And yes, more people are probably tuning into NCIS, like me. Just my opinion. As for her teachers and how they were too jealous to teach her anything – get off the cross, Lea, people need the wood. It probably never occurred to her that perhaps her teachers saw her as an anal-retentive narcissist who would never deign to take their advice anyway.

Photos courtesy of Marie Claire UK.

A few weeks ago, CNN announced that whenever Larry King retires (when hell freezes over, probably), his seat and 9 p.m. timeslot will go to Piers Morgan, British bon vivant. It was kind of a smart, safe choice – Piers doesn’t really incite controversy from what I’ve seen, and I guess he’s a decent interviewer. Why not? Well, it looks like the dude everyone hoped would NOT get the gig is very, very upset. That’s right, Ryan Seacrest is in meltdown mode:

Ryan Seacrest is fuming over losing out to Piers Morgan as Larry King’s successor – Ryan dreams of moving into the coveted chair were dashed when Piers was announced.

“Ryan is livid – he was counting on the King job,” said a source. “He thought he had a lock on it.”

According to the source, Ryan was sure that Piers was not a serious contender for the job. He thought Anderson cooper and Katie Couris were the real threats – “Ryan was stunned when Piers got the job…. Ryan would have given up a lot to take over Larry’s seat.”

And when he learned he didn’t get the job, the source said Ryan flew off the handle, complaining: “That job was mine! Mine! It was promised to me! Larry told me many times that I was the only one for the gig!”

Sore loser Ryan told the source: Piers may be well-knows in England, but he’s a nobody here in the U.S. I can’t believe CNN made that move.”

[From The National Enquirer, print edition]

Oooh, I can totally see this, all of it. Ryan throwing a hissy fit after spending so much time plotting away for the gig, only to have his hopes dashed. Personally, I’m thrilled that CNN isn’t enamored with La Seacrest, because that boy is a major bitch. He’s unprofessional and rude, and he has a really snide, narcissistic streak. I know he wants to be the next Dick Clark, but he’s never going to get there. Dick Clark was and is a gentleman, and a very lovely presence. La Seacrest makes my ass itch.

Also: does anyone else think that La Seacrest’s “relationship” with Julianne Hough was all part of his campaign to get Larry’s seat. Now he has no idea what to do with his extra beard. She’s outlived her usefulness. Get him Rachel Bilson!

Don’t even ask me what’s going on with Jennifer Lopez these days. She’s been putting in appearances for New York Fashion Week, and while not every look has been hideous, there are definitely some styling issues that you’d think a diva of Jennifer’s caliber would be beyond. I just want to shake her and say “You’re 41 years old! You should have this figured out by now.” But still, we’re getting bedhead and fringe and transparent coochie dresses and miniskirts and tacky styling. Ugh.

Anyway, after weeks (months) of speculation, it’s looking more and more like Jennifer Lopez will be the next diva judge on American Idol. Us Weekly’s sources claim it’s a done deal… which could mean anything, but I tend to think it’s on. I know ‘Idol’ die-hards aren’t too happy with this, but honestly, I think Jennifer will make a good judge. She’s bitchy with a heart (that should be this site’s tagline, right?). Anyway, TMZ and PopEater claim that getting J.Lo on Idol was such a long process because there were some mysterious forces out there trying to sabotage her and c-ckblock her. J.Lo has made some enemies!

Are there shadowy forces at work trying to sabotage Jennifer Lopez’s bid to become the next ‘American Idol’ judge? According to a new report, FOX execs believe enemies of the show as well as Lopez’s competition are planting rumors about the star’s so-called “diva demands” before signing on the dotted line.

Well-connected sources tell TMZ that negotiations between the two parties have in fact been “normal” and that Lopez is expected to become the show’s judge any day now.
Among the rumors floating around about Lopez include that she was demanding too much money was insisting on a movie deal to be included. Some sort of movie component is involved with negotiations, but it’s not a key part of it.

In early August, sources told PopEater’s Rob Shuter that Lopez was only offered the job after several big-name celebrities, including Elton John and Barry Manilow, turned down offers to be permanent judges.

Lopez’s people have been working on the deal for over a month, shortly before Ellen DeGeneres announced she was leaving the show. Since then, Kara DioGuardi also exited though it’s unclear if she was actually fired. Aerosmith frontman Steven Tyler has told friends he is replacing Simon Cowell, mean when the dust settles it will be Tyler, Randy Jackson and presumably Lopez at the judges table come season 10.

[From PopEater]

Well, it’s good to know that Jennifer is not a self-saboteur, going all diva throughout the negotiations – it seems now like that was just speculation from someone very anti-Lopez. Gee, who could it be? The myriad managers and handlers that she jettisoned as she got more and more famous? The yes-men who had to deal with her for years? The peasants who had to do her makeup and hair, who she’s obviously pissed off? Granted, I don’t think Jennifer is a monster or anything. I just think she’s a diva. And she’s a diva who has found her home on American Idol.

Did you know that Tim Gunn has written a book? He has, and he’s giving us some juicy gossip about some high-profile fashion people. The book is called Gunn’s Golden Rules, and I guess it’s supposed to be a fashion bible for people who adore Tim Gunn (raising hand). Anyway, Page Six has an early excerpt of the book, and it’s a good one. Tim tells two great stories, one about Vogue editor-in-chief Anna Wintour being carried down stairs by bodyguards, and the second about Vogue’s Andre Leon Talley being fed like a bird.

Tim Gunn has seen a lot, but his story of watching Anna Wintour get carried down five sets of stairs by her bodyguards after refusing to ride an elevator takes the cake. In his new book, “Gunn’s Golden Rules” (Simon & Schuster’s Gallery Books), co-written with The Post’s Ada Calhoun, the flamboyant “Project Runway” host dishes on his encounter with the Vogue editor at designer Peter Som’s fashion show at the Metropolitan Pavilion in 2006.

After the show, writes Gunn, “I was with a colleague from Parsons, and we had been discussing the will-she-or-won’t-she-take-the-elevator question, so we ran over to the elevator bay to see if Anna would deign to get on. She wasn’t there. Then we looked over the stairway railing. And what did we see but Anna being carried down the stairs. The bodyguards had made a fireman’s lock and were racing her from landing to landing. She was sitting on their crossed arms.”

Adds Gunn: “I ran to the window to see if they would put her down on the sidewalk or carry her to the car like that. They carried her to the car. And I thought: I will never forget this.”

It’s not the only instance of divalike behavior by a Vogue staffer: Gunn also writes of a run-in later that year with Editor-at-Large Andre Leon Talley at the New York Public Library at a panel discussion with photographer Timothy Greenfield-Sanders and People editor Martha Nelson.

Gunn, Nelson and Greenfield-Sanders went to sound-check, but Talley refused. Gunn writes: “When we return to the green room, we see that someone has spread a translucent barber’s bib over Andre and he’s reclining, his arms at his sides. He’s being fed grapes and cubes of cheese one by one, like a bird in a nest.”

A spokesman for Vogue told Page Six, “Tim Gunn has a very vivid imagination. There is no truth to any of this.”

[From Page Six]

Oh, snap. Vogue’s spokesman doesn’t sound too happy. I bet the spokesman really said “[THAT BITCH] Tim Gunn has a very vivid imagination.” Anyway, I believe Tim’s story. I was going to say “especially about Andre Leon Talley” but I believe both the Talley and the Wintour stories equally. Talley seems like a madman, and in 2006, ALT would have been dieting, right? Being fed like a bird was probably part of his “diet”. Oh, and Wintour being carried by bodyguards just makes sense if you’re wearing crazy heels. Why take off your shoes to walk? Real fashion is never convenient, bitches.

This interview with Katherine Heigl is several days old, and the writer makes a point of saying that it was conducted a few weeks before Katherine’s full promotional push for The Killers began. And ended, because that film did not do well – it’s been out for three weeks, and it hasn’t broken $40 million yet. Ouch. So much for Katherine Heigl being one of the few women who can get a great box office. Anyway, as we and many others have pointed out before, Katherine has a big mouth and a big diva attitude and it gets her into a lot of trouble. The Telegraph points out the latest incident involving Katherine’s insanity and how it negatively affects her career – her publicist fired HER.

Katherine Heigl is trying not to offend anyone. With those brown doe eyes and her rom-com pedigree it might be hard to imagine Heigl uttering anything insulting but, despite her sweet, apple-pie appearance, the 31-year-old actress is not afraid to speak her mind.

So much so that, just two weeks before our meeting, her publicist fired her. Rumor has it that Heigl’s famously loose tongue was to blame. ‘That, I have to say, hurt my feelings,’ Heigl says, sitting on a deep brown leather sofa.

She’s sitting cross-legged with a bottle of water by her side, trying her best to be relaxed. She offers many quick smiles and big, frequent laughs. She is cagey about what exactly prompted her publicist to dump her but, whatever Heigl said or did, it was the latest in a long line of controversial incidents.

‘I’m a talker,’ Heigl begins with a sigh. ‘I love a good debate. But people started thinking of me as a diva. It was a ball that just started rolling. I’m realizing now that I can’t just blurt things out.’

Which is why Heigl has decided to conduct interviews in her house. ‘If I have to be focused and watch what I say, then I have to be comfortable.’

[From The Telegraph]

Yes, because that’s the reason she’s such an insufferable diva, right? Location. What is her thought process, seriously? “Ooh, I’ll do an interview in my home, that way I won’t sound nasty when I bitch about everyone I work with.” And you know what? I remember Katherine’s Vanity Fair interview, the one where she bitched about Knocked Up – she did that interview in her home.

Anyway, the rest of the Telegraph piece is more of the same sh-t Heigl’s been talking about for months. I’ll just do the highlights, but the full Telegraph piece is here.

On adopting Naleigh: ‘It felt right to start our family this way,’ says Heigl. ‘I grew up in an adoptive family. My sister was adopted from Korea. So it was something I always knew I would do.’

Katherine had “no idea what she was in for” when she started working right after the adoption: ‘I thought, “I can do this,”‘ she says with a laugh. ‘My mom was going to be there a lot. Josh was going to be back and forth from Nashville, where he was just starting his album, which was just a two-hour drive away. I have a wonderful nanny. No problem. But I ended up having one full-on anxiety attack and I threw my back out twice from stress. People will tell you how hard it is, but you have no idea until you experience it.’

On feeling dowdy: Heigl says that when Josh Duhamel, her co-star in Life As We Know It, and his wife Fergie, the singer, recently came over for a pool party, she felt dowdy and mumsy. ‘Yeah, try sitting next to Fergie in a bikini,’ she says. ‘She had on the cutest little suit, which I actually own. I was so relieved I wasn’t wearing it, too. But as long as I can suck it in and still say my lines at work I’ll be fine.’

Katherine and Josh expect to have both adopted and biological children: ‘A lot of them, not to be too Jolie-Pitt about it’.

Katherine offends professional killers too: ‘I guess they’re perceived as sexy, kind of a stealth human weapon with this dark and glamorous life. In real life, it seems like they’d have to have some kind of chip loose in the brain to kill people professionally. Oh, but there I go again. I guess I’ve offended assassins this time,’ she says. ‘To all of the assassins reading this story, I’m sorry. Please don’t take it personally.’

[From The Telegraph]

“…As long as I can suck it in and still say my lines at work I’ll be fine.” Well, at least she’s not neurotic about her body or her looks, I do give her credit for that. After overdosing on too many actresses’ interviews where they only seem to be able to talk about what diet they’re doing or how much they work out, it is refreshing to hear an actress talk about sucking in her gut. Maybe that’s the problem with Katherine though – she thinks everyone is going to take her words as “that’s refreshing” even when she’s being an insane diva. There’s a reason professional actors rarely talk sh-t about the people they work with, and it’s not because they fear being “refreshing.”

Katherine at the London premiere of The Killers on June 9, 2010. Credit: WENN.

From what little I know of Lea Michele, I think she’s likely a rude, obnoxious little diva. I get that she has a great voice and maybe enough acting chops to get her to Broadway and television stardom on Glee, and I also get that maybe she’s new to the national fame game, and doesn’t always say the right things, and yes, there’s a learning curve. I accept all that. But what I find interesting – and very telling – is that as soon as she started getting bad press for pulling the diva act, Glee creator Ryan Murphy took to the press to defend his diva as if she was Maria Callas or something. Now Us Weekly is running a rather rude/funny piece about how everyone who works on Glee sort of hates her. Not really, but Us Weekly does use the word “diva” in the headline, although no one quoted uses that word.

Art imitates life for Glee star Lea Michele. A source tells Us Weekly the actress (who plays uptight show standout Rachel Berry), 23, is a diva on the set of the Fox show, which airs its season finale Tuesday night.

“Lea acts like she’s better than the rest of the cast,” says the insider. “But the thing is, she legitimately is.”

Another set source says, “She’s sweet, but she has her moments.”

Apt to boss around makeup artists and other crew members, “She has very clear ideas about what she wants to do and how she wants to look. I think she’s just Type-A, like her character”

A second pal points out that Lea has “always wanted to be a star,” and, in a classic Hollywood move, “she has become super-strict about her diet. She is a vegan now and says she hasn’t eaten cheese in a year!”‘

Michele — who admitted on The Oprah Winfrey Show she’s more like her character than any of her co-stars — even “sings along to her own songs on the radio.”

At a May 24 cast dinner at Chicago’s Sunda, she was the only star who refused to sign autographs for fans. After it was reported she snapped at photographer Patrick McMullan for asking her name at the Time 100 party, she Twittered that it was a “silly joke.”

Still, the cast has bonded working 14-hour days.

“We’ve become so close, Dianna Agron, 24, who plays pregnant cheerleader Quinn Fabray, tells Us. “We’re like a family.”

[From Us Weekly]

See, I set you up for a really mean article, but it’s not really. Most unnamed sources are like, “Yeah, she’s kind of bitch, but whatever.” So, is Lea terrible or terribly talented? Or both? I can’t decide. CB theorized that so many people are ready to dislike her because she has kind of a smug, bitchy face. CB also theorized that people associate her with type-A personality character, and dislike her for that reason. It sounds like that really is who she is, though. She’s type-A, she’s a bit high-strung, she’s a little smug. But if she has the talent to back up her attitude, maybe people will keep giving her breaks.