Red carpet prankster will spoil it for fans, warns Pitt

Brad Pitt has spoken out after being accosted by a man with a reputation for red carpet pranks.

Vitalii Sediuk, 25, has said that he was merely trying to give the actor a hug, but in a statement to People magazine, Pitt accused the former Ukrainian television reporter of attempting to grab his crotch.

He said he hit Sediuk a couple of times on the back of his head during the red carpet event for Maleficent in Los Angeles last week.