White House callers get sex chat line

Journalists who hoped to speak to top US politicians during the recent G20 meetings ended up getting through to a sex chat line after a mixup over the phone numbers.

The press had been invited to use the number for "on-the-record briefing call with secretary of state Hillary Clinton and national security advisor Jim Jones to discuss the NATO summit".

However, reporters who dialled up heard a female voice requesting a credit card number for callers who "feel like getting nasty", Fox News reports.

The White House sent out a corrected press release with a new number for journalists while the conference call was underway.