{"id":637203,"date":"2010-01-21T16:55:47","date_gmt":"2010-01-21T21:55:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.popcrunch.com\/?p=89706"},"modified":"2010-01-21T16:55:47","modified_gmt":"2010-01-21T21:55:47","slug":"liza-minnelli-joins-%e2%80%9cugly-betty%e2%80%9d-as-drama-teacher-lena-korvinka","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/637203","title":{"rendered":"Liza Minnelli Joins \u201cUgly Betty\u201d As Drama Teacher Lena Korvinka"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In news that will make the gays go gaga, FOX News&#8217; <a href=\"http:\/\/entertainment.blogs.foxnews.com\/2010\/01\/21\/fox411-exclusive-lisa-minelli-joining-cast-of-ugly-betty\/\">411 Column<\/a> has learned that entertainment legend Liza Minnelli will be joining the cast of <em>Ugly Betty<\/em> later this season.<\/p>\n<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.popcrunch.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/09\/liza-minnelli-sex-and-the-city-500x750.jpg?resize=500%2C750\" alt=\"\" title=\"liza-minnelli-sex-and-the-city\" width=\"500\" height=\"750\" class=\"alignright size-large wp-image-70579\" \/><\/p>\n<p><span id=\"more-89706\"><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Industry informants say the campy Cabaret star has inked a deal for a recurring role as Lena Korvinka, Justin Suarez&#8217;s (Mark Indelicato) high school drama teacher.<\/p>\n<p>Liza has reportedly postponed her scheduled knee replacement surgery so that she can continue shooting through Feb. 12. And the cast &#8212; which features America Ferrera and Vanessa Williams &#8212; couldn&#8217;t be more excited to have her on board.<\/p>\n<p><em>&#8220;There were massive rumors last year, then again in early January that Liza was being courted for the show, but Liza originally hadn&#8217;t planned to do the show,&#8221;<\/em> an insider close to production on the ABC dramedy revealed Thursday. <em>&#8220;Ugly Betty producers presented her with a great offer and a hilarious story and they kept coming back to her. She&#8217;s going to be playing an outrageous drama teacher and it is going to be fun! Liza is excited to be playing another off-the-wall character like Lucille 2 on &#8216;Arrested Development.&#8217;&#8221; <\/em><\/p>\n<p>No word just yet on Liza&#8217;s first airdate.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~a\/Kp4cRV5ey8-dw8HfG081OrDelgM\/0\/da\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~a\/Kp4cRV5ey8-dw8HfG081OrDelgM\/0\/di\" border=\"0\" ismap=\"true\"><\/img><\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~a\/Kp4cRV5ey8-dw8HfG081OrDelgM\/1\/da\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~a\/Kp4cRV5ey8-dw8HfG081OrDelgM\/1\/di\" border=\"0\" ismap=\"true\"><\/img><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In news that will make the gays go gaga, FOX News&#8217; 411 Column has learned that entertainment legend Liza Minnelli will be joining the cast of Ugly Betty later this season. Industry informants say the campy Cabaret star has inked a deal for a recurring role as Lena Korvinka, Justin Suarez&#8217;s (Mark Indelicato) high school [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":288,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4821],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-637203","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9NivD-2FLt","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/637203","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/288"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=637203"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/637203\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=637203"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=637203"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=637203"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}