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" Samuel Larsen and Damian McGinty have been crowned joint-winners of The Glee Project. The 19-year-old from California and the 18-year-old from Northern Ireland were announced as the overall champions on tonight&amp;#039;s finale, and have each won seven-episode storylines on the third season of Glee. The pair beat fellow finalists Lindsay Pearce and Alex Newell. However, both Pearce and Newell were also rewarded for their time in the competition with two-episode guest stints on the Fox drama&amp;#039;s next run. Glee creator Ryan Murphy featured as a guest judge on the finale, in which the finalists tackled Journey&amp;#039;s &amp;#039;Don&amp;#039;t Stop Believin&amp;#039;&amp;#039; for their homework assignment, and took on Pink&amp;#039;s &amp;#039;Raise Your Glass&amp;#039; for this week&amp;#039;s music video.   The Glee Project&amp;#039;s executive producer Michael Davies recently revealed that he feels &amp;quot;incredibly confident&amp;quot; about the show&amp;#039;s chances of a second season. &amp;quot;[It hasn&amp;#039;t been] officially picked up, [but] talks have begun,&amp;quot; he told reporters at the Television Critics Association. &amp;quot;A lot of the planning has begun.&amp;quot; Glee will return on September 20 on Fox. &amp;amp;gt; Ryan Murphy: &amp;#039;Glee Project winner will surprise&amp;#039; Watch the cast of Glee talking to Digital Spy about season three below:      "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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