Russell Brand did not waste much time at the Oscar week in Los Angeles recently and apparently got the phone number of Dita Von Teese within half an hour of meeting her.

Brand bumped into Dita, the ex-girlfriend of Marilyn Manson, at a pre-Oscar party and quickly got to work by getting her mobile telephone number.  He was reported to have said “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”.  He went onto say “Eventually she saw me and we started chatting.  I was saying some brilliantly funny things, slowly tempting her into my web”.

Brand was in LA to talk to producers about turning his autobiography ‘My Booky Wook’ into a movie in which he would like to play himself, who better.