Cheryl Cole set for guest role in 'Glee'

Cheryl Cole set for guest role in 'Glee'
Cheryl Cole set for guest role in 'Glee' (Image credit: Doug Peters)

Cheryl Cole is set to return to US screens with a guest role in Glee, according to the Mirror. The paper reports that the former X Factor judge - who made an abrupt departure from the US version of the show in May - will appear as herself in the high school hit. And she is also being tipped to make a guest appearance in the US sitcom How I Met Your Mother. An insider revealed that since Cheryl was dropped from the US X Factor panel and replaced by Nicole Scherzinger, her manager Will.I.Am has been in weekly talks with the major TV networks to get her Stateside career back on track. "Cheryl’s US dream is far from over," the source said. "Her people are in talks with executives involved with Glee and How I Met Your Mother with a view to featuring Cheryl in an episode," "Will reckons people in the States are really starting to sit up and take notice of her. Since the US X Factor setback, Cheryl’s team is more determined than ever to get things moving for her. "Will is talking films, music and now the small screen, too." Earlier this week it was revealed that Cheryl is set to make her big screen debut in the Hollywood movie What To Expect When You're Expecting, which stars Jennifer Lopez and Cameron Diaz. The 28-year-old will play a talent show judge in that film, which follows the fortunes of four couples experiencing first time parenthood.

Patrick McLennan

Patrick McLennan is a London-based journalist and documentary maker who has worked as a writer, sub-editor, digital editor and TV producer in the UK and New Zealand. His CV includes spells as a news producer at the BBC and TVNZ, as well as web editor for Time Inc UK. He has produced TV news and entertainment features on personalities as diverse as Nick Cave, Tom Hardy, Clive James, Jodie Marsh and Kevin Bacon and he co-produced and directed The Ponds, which has screened in UK cinemas, BBC Four and is currently available on Netflix. 


An entertainment writer with a diverse taste in TV and film, he lists Seinfeld, The Sopranos, The Chase, The Thick of It and Detectorists among his favourite shows, but steers well clear of most sci-fi.