A rising Barnes screen star was cut off mid-sentence by loudmouth Russell Brand at the much talked about MTV video music awards.

Comedian Brand alienated an untold numbers of loyal fans of the upcoming hit flick Twilight when he stepped in on heartthrob Robert Pattinson introducing a rock band act.

Together with three of his fellow cast members, the Barnes native and star of the film adaptation of the hugely popular Twilight books, Pattinson started "please welcome" but was interrupted by the normally hilarious Brit comic.

Butting in, Brand said "mysterious" and made a flamboyant hand gesture.


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Sticking to the adage that the show must go on, Robert, who plays the leading male role in the vampire film due out in Britain in November, again raised his microphone to speak but couldn't get a word in.

Brand moved out of the background and shouted "nothing being as it seems", a line just delivered by a Twilight co-star, "is a bloody confusing concept".

Robert, 22, who has lived in Los Angeles for the past year filming the widely anticipated flick, patiently waited for his compatriot to finish.

But Brand dragged the joke out then hijacked Robert's lines completely and introduced the musical performance himself.

In the cringworthy clip now on YouTube, the young screen actor is finally shown throwing a hand up resignedly as if the point of him being there had been usurped by Brand's attention-seeking outburst.

Elsewhere in the show, painfully blunt Brand, 33, sparked a firestorm of criticism with his saucy presenting style at the 25th anniversary awards ceremony.

He called George Bush a "retarded cowboy" and joked about premarital celibacy "promise" rings, worn by devout pop performers the Jonas Brothers and 18-year-old American Idol winner Jordin Sparks.

Pattinson, who played Cedric Diggory in Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire and who is also a talented musician, has enjoyed relative obscurity in Britain compared to the crazed adoration he has received living in Hollywood.

A past pupil of Harrodian School in Lonsdale Road, he started his acting career with Barnes Theatre Company.