Authentic Glee solid member Kevin McHale is singing no praises about an upcoming new docuseries in regards to the present.

The Value of Glee, set to premiere Jan. 16 on Investigation Discovery and Discovery+, focuses on the legacy and controversies surrounding the Fox musical comedy, in addition to the deaths of solid members Cory Monteith, Naya Rivera and Mark Salling. In accordance with Deadline, key solid and crew members share on the docuseries first-hand tales of their time on Glee.

“Present me this ‘solid’ you converse of,” McHale, who performed Artie Abrams on the present, tweeted Dec. 9. “That is [wastebasket emoji].”

The actor added, “This was the great model, ftr. Do not make me converse on this once more.”

E! Information has reached out to Warner Bros. Discovery for remark about McHale’s remarks and has not heard again.

Jenna Ushkowitz, who performed Artie’s love curiosity Tina Cohen-Chang on Glee, responded to McHale’s final tweet with a grimacing face emoji.

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The 2 co-host the Glee rewatch podcast And That is What You Actually Missed. In November, the actors briefly touched upon the brand new docuseries in an interview with BuzzFeed.

“By way of the Discovery+ documentary, it feels much more vital, to me not less than, to do the podcast as a result of we have been those who have been there,” Ushkowitz instructed the outlet. “And we have been those experiencing this. And we all know what actually occurred. So you recognize, for me, it feels much more pertinent to really be those to share our expertise when persons are sharing experiences that they did not have.”

McHale added, “I additionally assume the opposite motive why we wished to do that was that with the pandemic and TikTok, there was this bizarre resurgence of Glee. An entire new technology of individuals has been discovering it. Like, kids, who weren’t alive when the present began. We talked to [creator] Ryan [Murphy] about that, too, about simply how cool and what a possibility that’s for folks. They don’t seem to be essentially connected to all the, for example, drama, or the dangerous issues folks will speak about within the press as a result of they’re simply seeing this with new eyes.”

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Fellow solid member Chord Overstreet additionally spoke in regards to the new docuseries again in August. “I feel anyone that is aware of something about that present and skilled it does not have something to do with that from what I do know,” he mentioned on The Elvis Duran Present. “We’re all actually shut and just about like household. No one is aware of something about that. I feel it is a bit little bit of like simply attempting to get folks to look at one thing. I do not assume anyone actually is aware of something about it. I feel it is identical to a tabloid factor attempting to promote.”

McHale and Jenna starred on all six seasons of Glee, which resulted in 2015. Overstreet joined in season two as Sam Evans. Monteith performed their character’s buddy Finn Hudson, and was additionally an authentic solid member. He died at age 31 of an unintended overdose in 2013.

In 2018, Salling, who performed Noah “Puck” Puckerman on the present, died of suicide at 35 at whereas awaiting sentencing in a authorized case to which he had pleaded responsible to possession of kid pornography involving a prepubescent minor.

In 2020, on the seventh anniversary of Monteith’s loss of life, Rivera, who performed Santana Lopez on Glee, was confirmed useless of unintended drowning at 33 after a boating accident.

Her father, George Rivera, is featured in The Value of Glee docuseries. Throughout his interview, he displays on how the sequence impacted his late daughter’s life. “I knew that was the highest of the mountain for Naya,” he says within the trailer, launched Dec. 8. “On your child, it was simply surreal.”

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