Renèe's 'slutty' rant

Renèe Zellweger stormed into a newspaper office to confront a reporter about a story that she claimed made her 'look slutty'.

The actress, who recently announced her divorce from country singer Kenny Chesney after just four months of marriage, was said to be fuming after reading that she planned to visit her 'new beau', singer Damien Rice, in Ireland.

She hot-footed it to the New York Post and phoned shocked reporters from the lobby.

'This is RenÈe Zellweger. I wonder if you could come down because I want to talk to you,' she was reported as saying. A sceptical reporter from the Page Six column, which ran the story, replied: 'You are probably lying but I will come down as I don't mind being pranked.'

The unnamed journalist almost dropped her pen when the Bridget Jones star introduced herself, saying: 'I just wanted to tell you that story was hurtful.'

The 36-year-old added: 'It wasn't true and made me look slutty.'

Zellweger assured the newspaper she and Dublinborn Rice were just good friends and not romantically involved.