Melissa Stetten live-tweets married soap actor's pathetic attempt to chat her up during flight

Melissa Stetten live-tweets married soap actor's pathetic attempt to chat her up during flight

• Model Melissa Stetten was seated next to actor Brian Presley on a domestic red-eye flight from LA
• The actor has been married for ten years and has two children with wife Erin Hershey Presley
  

By Daily Mail Reporter

PUBLISHED: 12:38 EST, 7 June 2012 | UPDATED: 05:45 EST, 8 June 2012

A model has used Twitter to publicly humiliate a married soap actor who tried to chat her up on a plane.

Melissa Stetten, a 22-year-old New York-based model, live-tweeted a conversation yesterday with Brian Presley, a 34-year-old actor from Oklahoma, who told her that he believed they were 'brought together' by God on the flight.

The actor also allegedly drank 'three Heinekens' on the domestic red-eye flight out of Los Angeles, despite having told Christianity Today in April that he attends 'weekly AA meetings with a group of awesome, godly men from my church.'

Sprung: Melissa Stetten (left), a model from New York, live-tweeted a pickup attempt by soap actor Brian Presley (right) on board a plane out of Los Angeles yesterday. The actor is in fact married with two children

Snapped: The model captures the encounter on her phone (above) before posting the photograph on Twitter

Just one of the model's many amusing Twitter posts reads: 'Brian just said "like us sitting here right now, taking about where we're from, it's like divine interception". right, interception.'

At first the model didn't realise who she was sitting next to on the flight, just tweeting 'No thanks, Brian, the actor sitting next to me on this flight talking about his role with Kurt Russell and his spiritual beliefs.'

It was only when one of her 13,000 followers sent her his identity, the messages became more interesting as the actor, a former star of Port Charles which was a spin-off TV series of General Hospital, has previously spoken publicly about his journey to sobriety and religion.

Commentary: It followed everything from the actor's stance on gay marriage to his early acting roles

During the pair's alleged conversation, he claimed that he is not married to his wife of ten years Erin Hershey Presley, when he in fact met Mrs Presley on the show's set - the pair were co-stars and now have two children.

The model posted at a later stage of the commentary: 'He said he was engaged for 6 months but broke it off! RT @Pat_Healy: @MelissaStetten Ask him how his wife Erin and son Jackson are.'

The actor has yet to respond to the Twitter postings and is yet to respond to MailOnline's request.

Knowledge: Miss Stetten learns via the social networking site that the actor recently claimed he's sober

Nice one Brian: Melissa reveals how Brian responded to her question over his wedding ring

What a charmer! Melissa tweets her companion left the bathroom without his wedding ring, this Tweet was later deleted

Family man: The actor met his wife of ten years on the set of a soap called Port Charles, they have two children

The model, was born in Kalamazoo, Michigan, posted the detailed description as he chatted to her from the seat beside her on a red-eye flight to New York.

She expressed an unwillingness to engage in the conversation right from her first tweet, but it seems that the actor, who has appeared in guest roles in Beverly Hills 90210 and 7th Heaven in the past, couldn't take the hint.

'Inspired his craft': Presley pictured in 2011 film Touchback with Kurt Russell

This morning Melissa, ever the honorable Tweeter posted his response to her account of the flight.

In the post, which appears on Facebook, Brian brands Melissa 'weird' and said that in his soap opera career he had never encountered such 'good writing.'

The actor, who ends his message with the words 'sobriety rocks', said Melissa's account is untrue and at times 'absurd'.

He ends by thanking his fans for support.

Sobriety Rocks: Brian's response, posted this morning... by Melissa Stetten

Through her tweets, her Twitter followers learned that 'Brian... is an artist and believes everything happens for a reason like how we're brought together on this flight'.

He is also 'a straightforward guy who booked a McDonalds commercial when he was 19 and then God took over from there'.

The actor, who stars in the new movie Touchback, later told the model a further lie about his marital status.

Beauty: She has almost 18,700 followers on Twitter, who seemed to be captivated by her posts

Soon enough, Miss Stetten's followers, which now total almost 18,700, began posting actual facts about the actor.

The model then acknowledged the possible repercussions of her running commentary.

She posted: 'Did I just ruin Brian Presley's life via Twitter?'

SHAMED: BRIAN PRESLEY'S PICKUP ATTEMPT ON MELISSA STETTEN IN FULL

'No thanks, Brian, the actor sitting next to me on this flight talking about his role with Kurt Russell and his spiritual beliefs'

'Brian is now talking about how he is an artist and believes everything happens for a reason, like how we're brought together on this flight'

'Apparently Brian is a straightforward guy from Oklahoma who booked a McDonalds commercial when he was 19 and then God took over from there'

'Brian hates closed minded people but loves artists in the industry, and just called this one-sided conversation a "collabo" between u s'

'Oh wow, Brian grew up on a ranch with uber conservative parents but his stance on gay marriage is ZZZZZzzzzzzzzzzz....'

'Brian just said "like us sitting here right now, talking about where we're from, it's like divine interception." right, interception'

'Brian asked what I do for a living. I said model. He said "oh I love meeting other artists like myself"

'Brian just finished working on a movie with Matthew McConaughey who inspired his "craft" immensely being a small town boy like himself'

'Yes, this is BRIAN! RT @Pat_Healy: @MelissaStetten Is this him by any chance? http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0696169/'

'He said he was engaged for 6 months but broke it off! RT @Pat_Healy: @MelissaStetten Ask him how his wife Erin and son Jackson are'

'Brian likes going back home to Oklahoma to inspire the less fortunate to become "artists" like himself'

'Brian just took his Heineken in a plastic cup into the bathroom. Will report ba ck shortly'

'Holy s***, Brian came out of the bathroom WITHOUT his wedding ring on. Watch out Virgin America, you've got a real charmer on board.'

'Brian is back, he just ordered the chicken salad sandwich'

'Brian's been looking for the headphone jack for 10 minutes'

'Brian asked if I saw Book of Mormon. I said yes. He said he wanted to get into theater when he was a rodeo boy back in 'Homa (oklahoma)'

'Brian said he was engaged to another actress but it didn't work out because they didn't "mesh well" together'

'Holy s**t. He's had 3 heinekens and is wasted. Sober? Hardly. RT @PlaidMcPlatypus: did you say he was drinking beer?'

'Did I just ruin Brian Presley's life via twitter?'

'Who opens the windows on a redeye flight? Brian does. F***ing Brian'

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