Kevin McHale (AFP photo)

Glee’s Kevin McHale is usually 24 years old. That’s positively comparison than his character, Artie Abrams, though 24 isn’t accurately ancient.

Still, as McHale prepares to co-host a Teen Choice Awards with Demi Lovato, we asked if he already has started to feel out of hold with kids who are, say, 13, 14 or 15.

“Oh yes, definitely,” McHale pronounced with a laugh. “I sound like a crazy aged parent.

“I have a 12-year-old niece and she has an Instagram, that weirded me out. It’s small things, where we see her and a younger siblings of my friends regulating emoticons, for instance. And it’s like, ‘What? They’re too immature to be doing this.’

“And afterwards I’m like, ‘Hold on, what am we saying?’ we tell her, ‘Any time we start behaving like that again, we have to tell me to stop behaving like a primogenitor and I’ll get behind to normal.’ I’m perplexing not to, though that was a good question.”

McHale will have to reconnect with his younger self during a 2012 Teen Choice Awards, that atmosphere Sunday, Jul 22 on Fox and Global.

Scheduled performers embody Justin Bieber, Carly Rae Jepsen, Flo Rida, No Doubt and DJ Pauly D, while others participating embody Zooey Deschanel, Miley Cyrus, Ellen DeGeneres, Zac Efron, Selena Gomez, Lea Michele, Jordin Sparks, Gordon Ramsay and Taylor Swift, whose participation during awards shows seems to be compulsory by some arrange of law.

“I’m vehement to see No Doubt,” pronounced McHale, maybe inadvertently divulgence his age. “So we hopefully won’t act like a fan chimpanzee in front of all a people that we like. we should substantially stay professional. My idea is to act like an tangible horde and not like a fan.

“I hosted a Teen Choice Awards dual years ago with Katy Perry and Mark (Salling), Chris (Colfer) and Cory (Monteith) from Glee, though since there were so many of us, we any usually had a small part. This will really be a lot some-more responsibility, though I’m excited.

“I’m looking brazen to being means to spend a small time with Demi and carrying a impetuosity of it being live, since we can usually devise so much. I’m going to hopefully be prepared for anything.”

Lovato positively is bustling these days with her judging duties on The X Factor alongside Britney Spears, L.A. Reid and Simon Cowell. But competence a Teen Choice Awards be an event for McHale to remonstrate Lovato to do a guest mark on Glee subsequent season?

“Oh, we will really ask her to do that,” McHale said. “Granted, we don’t have that power, though I’m perplexing to get her on board.

“I mean, we haven’t met any of (Artie’s) family. She could be my sister, right?”

bill.harris@sunmedia.ca