Brand chats up Von Teese at Oscars party

Russell Brand has revealed that he chatted up burlesque dancer Dita Von Teese at a pre-Oscars party last week.

The comedian admitted that he swapped phone numbers with Marilyn Manson's former lover and confessed to sharing flirtatious text messages with the star.

He told The Sun: "I saw Dita von Teese at the Chateau Marmont Hotel. At the risk of looking incontinent, I walked past her several times to the toilet to get her attention.

"Eventually she saw me and we started chatting. I was saying some brilliantly funny things, slowly tempting her into my web.

"I was thinking to myself, 'You like Marilyn Manson? You like weirdos? I’ll give you weirdos. Androgynous freaks is it?'"

The Radio 2 DJ added: "It was going well and she goes, ‘Would you like my number? Call me any time you are bored’.

"I said, 'I wouldn’t have to be bored to ring you, darling'. Later I texted her, 'Oddly, now I feel perpetually bored. Everything seems pale having met you'. She replied, 'You have a way with words'. So it’s all going well."