Lea Michele
's representatives have
denied that the Glee actress is pregnantand confirmed that
her Twitter account was hacked.The 27-year-old sparked a Twitter frenzy on Friday when she appeared to announce that she was pregnant although it later emerged that her profile had been accessed by hackers.
"Before this gets out to the media, I would like to announce to my fans that I am pregnant #BabyBoy,"read the message tweeted from Lea's account, who only recently began dating aspiring actor Matthew Paetz.
Lea Michele with her new boyfriend Matthew Paetz
The confusion that Lea's tweet caused came
the day after her Glee co-star Chris Colfer's Twitter account was also infiltrated.Chris appeared to make a shock announcement that he was leaving the hit Fox show, prompting his management to release a statement denying the news.
"We've been alerted that Chris Colfer's Twitter account has been hacked,"
Glee's producers told
Entertainment Weekly. "Rumours of his dismissal from
Glee could not be further from the truth. We love Chris and look forward to working with him again this season."