Ryan Murphy has thrown a swampy in a face of rumours Glee‘s categorical expel would not be returning subsequent season.

According to The Hollywood Reporter, a showrunner “left a doorway open” for a expel — that includes leads Lea Michele, Cory Monteith and Chris Colfer — to lapse for a show’s arriving fourth season, and all have supposed Murphy’s offer.

The news confirms Murphy’s prior claims. As he told Vulture progressing this year, a whole expel is “all entrance back. Anyone who is a unchanging is entrance back. Everyone pronounced yes.”

However, a array co-creator — who began essay for a arriving deteriorate final month – remarkable that returning expel members won’t indispensably underline heavily. “It doesn’t meant everybody will be doing 22 episodes, yet everybody wants to stay in a family and a world.”

One returning Gleek will really seem in a starring role, though. That’s Chord Overstreet (who plays Sam on a Fox series). Both Deadline and THR news that Overstreet will turn a array unchanging in Glee‘s new season.

Glee‘s fourth deteriorate premieres on Fox and Global in Sep and is set to underline guest appearances from Kate Hudson, Sarah Jessica Parker and American Idol‘s Jessica Sanchez.