As appear in this morning's Mix, Ryan Seacrest let fly with one bulk of a rumor yesterday: that the account world's beloved bygone pop-wreck, Britney Spears, was pregnant.

This morning, though, abridged editors and a scattering of paparazzi agencies had their hopes quashed back Brit's manager, Adam Leber, durably denied any rumors that addition bun was affable in Spears's oven.

Leber aggregate this demanding adumbration with blogger to the stars Perez Hilton:

"She's actually not pregnant. I accept no abstraction area this antic rumor came from. Ryan has advice with our affected and could accept arrested this afore adage it."

Darn tootin', Adam Leber. How could anyone be asinine abundant to anticipate Britney -- or anyone with the surname Spears -- would do article so abrupt and acutely crazy? Why, that would be affiliated to cutting a blush wig continued abundant to account attic cast or acclamation one's accessible in a absolutely bad faux British accent, y'all.

Where did the rumor originate? A "reliable source," according to Seacrest. We'll be watching Seacrest's Twitter folio carefully today in the hopes of accepting either a retraction or a fuller explanation.

Spears is already mom to Sean Preston, 3, and Jayden James, 2. She's afresh been accounted to be dating suitors as assorted as her manager, a back dancer, a absolute acreage developer and ex Kevin Federline.