Chennai

Fans of Pooja Hedge and Samantha Akkineni have been fighting against each other on social media for the last two days. The escalation began when Pooja Hedge reported on Thursday on Twitter that her Instagram account was hacked.

After a few hours, the actress updated her fans that her team had recovered her account and wrote, “Any message, follow back or post in the past hour from my account has been done will be undone.” (sic)

However, things then went out of hands as the hackers leaked screenshots reported to be from her Instagram story and it quickly became viral.

It showed a still of Samantha in a movie and the caption read, “I don’t find her pretty at all”. This left Samantha’s fans disappointed as Pooja allegedly spoke about the former’s looks.

Soon, #PoojaMustApologizeSamantha started trending on social media, while Pooja’s followers defended her with #WeSupportPoojaHegde.

Later, Samantha posted a smiling selfie, gesturing a ‘peace’ sign. This cryptic post has been assumed by fans as a response to Pooja’s alleged Instagram story.

In the aftermath, singer Chinmayi took to Twitter and wrote, “#TeamSamantha” and in another post, she said, “I have always and forever spoken out about social media bullying.” While fans are busy defending theirfavourite stars, none of the actors have directly spoken about this faux pa yet.

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