Model Blows Up Married Actor’s Spot, Live-Tweets His Unwanted Advances UPDATE: Presley denied the whole thing in a Facebook post on Thursday night; Stetten called his response “funny” on Twitter. We’ll never know. This is model Melissa Stetten: This is married actor Brian Presley, father of 5-year-old Jackson: These attractive “artists” found themselves sitting next to one another on a red-eye flight on Tuesday night. What happened next might be one of the biggest PR disasters for a bit-part actor in the Internet Era. Presley began hitting on Stetten, according to her Twitter feed (she live-tweeted the proceedings), and he lied about why he wears a wedding ring (“he likes it”). Some choice tweets: No thanks, Brian, the actor sitting next to me on this flight talking about his role with Kurt Russell and his spiritual beliefs. — Melissa Stetten (@MelissaStetten) June 6, 2012 Brian has a wedding ring. I ask him how his wife is, he says he just wears the ring because he likes it. Right, Brian. — Melissa Stetten (@MelissaStetten) June 6, 2012 Brian just said “like us sitting here right now, talking about where we’re from, it’s like divine interception.” right, interception. — Melissa Stetten (@MelissaStetten) June 6, 2012 Brian just finished working on a movie with Matthew McConaughey who inspired his “craft” immensely being a small town boy like himself. — Melissa Stetten (@MelissaStetten) June 6, 2012 Who opens the windows on a redeye flight? Brian does. Fucking Brian.twitpic.com/9tdd17 — Melissa Stetten (@MelissaStetten) June 6, 2012 Did I just ruin Brian Presley’s life via twitter? — Melissa Stetten (@MelissaStetten) June 6, 2012 The whole thing is priceless. Read it all @MelissaStetten. Hopefully for everyone’s sake Stetten wasn’t simply misinterpreting this man’s friendliness. But if her account is accurate, Twitter may have just brought down a marriage. Away we go, folks. [Happy Place] Follow us! Click and Follow Us for more updates straight to your news and nonsense feeds. Slade Sohmer Slade Sohmer is editor-in-chef of HyperVocal and co-host of SiriusXM's daily "Politics Powered By Twitter" program. Tweet him at @SladeHV.
Bill 07.06.12 @ 5:44 pm She doesn’t want his advances and knows he’s married, so in response she ruins his life, marriage and career? Doesn’t that seem a bit disproportionate? Not to mention the fact that she’s potentially ruined his wife’s and his child’s life as well. The dignified thing to do would’ve been to clearly tell him she’s not interested in him in that way, and then keep quiet about the whole thing.
Yehtiol 16.06.12 @ 3:50 pm Who ruined Brian’s life, Melissa or…Brian, perhaps!? If Brian claims to be something that he’s not, then whose fault is that? Yes, she’s calling him out on that…and it really is about time that people realize that they can’t just do what they want anymore with absolutely no boundaries and get away with it forever. Brian’s life would have been just fine if he just kept his mouth shut…seriously Bill, WHO ruined his wife and child’s life?
Lily 11.07.12 @ 12:15 pm Just because she rejected him doesn’t mean he wouldn’t go out there and try and get with another girl again. I don’t get why you would even blame Melissa, when he is the one who is in a marriage and should understand he should be faithful to his wife. It’s his own fault for attempting to cheat, so he deserves whatever consequences come his way.