'Glee' Season 5 Spoilers: NeNe Leakes Returns as Coach Roz; First Preview for New Episodes [VIDEO]
Real Housewives of Atlanta star NeNe Leakes will return to Glee as Coach Roz when season 5 of the series premieres in September.
Leakes first appeared on the show during season 3 as Coach Roz Washington, the new synchronized swimming coach at McKinley High. She is set to return for season 5 in multiple episodes, according to a Monday report by E! Online.
Coach Roz was last seen coaching the Cheerios in season 4. In the season 4 finale, she witnessed Brittany (Heather Morris) burning her Cheerios uniform and quickly put the fire out.
Naya Rivera Talks New Music & 'Glee' Season 5 [EXCLUSIVE]
Following the death of Cory Monteith, who played Finn Hudson since the show's beginning, production has been delayed on Glee's fifth season. The cast and crew began production on Monday, Aug. 5. The show will pay tribute to Monteith and his character, Finn, in the third episode of the season.
"That [third] episode will deal directly with the incidents involved with Cory's passing and the drug abuse in particular," said Fox Entertainment president Kevin Reilly in early August.
Reilly did not confirm whether or not Finn would be written out of the show via a drug overdose or anything similar to how Monteith died.
The show's producers are planning a two-part episode exclusively featuring music from The Beatles, and show creator Ryan Murphy revealed recently that the two episodes would be episode 1 and 2 of the new season.
Season 5 of Glee will premiere Thursday, Sept. 26 on Fox. The series will be on hiatus after the third episode for an unknown period of time before eventually returning with new episodes in the 2013-2014 television season.
Fox released a promo for the new season Tuesday, which can be seen here:
