The departure of Lea Michele, Chris
Colfer and Cory Monteith from the Fox musical-comedy Glee has
been called ridiculous by Anderson Cooper.
On Thursday's edition of CNN's Anderson
Cooper 360, Cooper took a swipe at Glee creator Ryan
Murphy's plans to retire three of the show's biggest stars during
season 3.
Murphy told The Hollywood Reporter
that the high school characters played by Michele, Colfer and
Monteith will graduate in the upcoming season and not return the next
year.
“You can keep them on the show for
six years and people will criticize you for not being realistic, or
you can be really true to life and say when they started the show
they were very clearly sophomores and they should graduate at the end
of their senior year,” Murphy said.
Cooper sarcastically responded: “I
guess the guy has a point. I mean, Glee is nothing if not a
very true to life portrayal of a very, very realistic high school.”
“Clearly, Glee cannot
compromise this air-tight sense of high school realism by letting
three of its stars stay on the show past their teenage prime,” he
added after playing a clip of the students rocking out in skin-tight
leather outfits. (The video is embedded in the right panel of this
page.)
Colfer, whose portrayal of gay student
Kurt has earned him two Emmy nominations, told Entertainment
Weekly that his graduation from the show was “bound to happen
sooner or later.”
“I would love to pull a Farrah
Fawcett from Charlie's Angels and come back every 10th
episode. I'd be the obnoxious recurring star!” Colfer said.