--- description: Fox denied Glee star Chris Colfer was leaving the show, minutes after a tweet from his verified Twitter account said he was "let go" from the cast. title: Fox Denies Glee Star Chris Colfer Was Fired After Twitter Rumor image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt663e30fc0061a37c/69869a84e53aba2fa14d3736/479483109.jpg?branch=production&width=3840&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  * [Entertainment](/section/entertainment/) ## Entertainment Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close # Fox Says _Glee_ Star Chris Colfer Wasn't Fired  by [Noah Rayman](/author/noah-rayman/)  ## Noah Rayman Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close Jul 3, 2014 6:18 PM CUT  Chris Colfer Chris ColferJB Lacroix—WireImage/Getty Images  by [Noah Rayman](/author/noah-rayman/)  ## Noah Rayman Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close Jul 3, 2014 6:18 PM CUT Fox denied _Glee_ star Chris Colfer was leaving the show just minutes after a tweet from his verified Twitter account said he was “let go” from the cast, saying the actor was a hacking victim. In a statement to TIME, 20th Century Fox Television said: “We’ve been alerted that Chris Colfer’s Twitter account has been hacked. Rumors 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.” Colfer’s manager separately [told _The Hollywood Reporter_](http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/live-feed/chris-colfers-manager-hes-not-716589 "undefined") that Colfer’s account had been hacked and that the actor was on a mid-Atlantic flight without access to Internet. The initial tweet set off an Internet firestorm–it was shared more than 6,000 times within an hour after it was tweeted–and prompted media outlets to report he was leaving.  The tweet came ahead of what _Glee_ co-creator Ryan Murphy has said will be the [show’s sixth and final season](http://entertainment.time.com/2013/10/17/next-season-of-glee-will-be-the-last/ "undefined") and nearly a year after another show star, Cory Monteith, [died](http://entertainment.time.com/2013/07/14/rip-cory-monteith-of-glee-dead-at-31/ "undefined"). ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/2954632/chris-colfer-glee-twitter-fired/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/2954632/chris-colfer-glee-twitter-fired/"},"headline":"Fox Says Glee Star Chris Colfer Wasn't Fired","datePublished":"2014-07-03T18:18:06.000Z","dateModified":"2026-05-11T05:08:09.695Z","description":"\"Rumors of his dismissal from Glee could not be further from the truth.\"","url":"https://time.com/2954632/chris-colfer-glee-twitter-fired/","keywords":["Television","celebrities","Fox","Glee"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt663e30fc0061a37c/69869a84e53aba2fa14d3736/479483109.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Noah Rayman","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/noah-rayman/"}],"articleSection":"Entertainment","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt663e30fc0061a37c/69869a84e53aba2fa14d3736/479483109.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675,"headline":"\"Glee\" 100th Episode Celebration - Arrivals","caption":"\"Glee\" 100th Episode Celebration - Arrivals","creditText":"JB Lacroix—WireImage/Getty Images","representativeOfPage":true}],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/section/entertainment/","name":"Entertainment"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/2954632/chris-colfer-glee-twitter-fired/","name":"Fox Says Glee Star Chris Colfer Wasn't Fired"}}]}] ```