The latest wicked whispers indicate that Brad Pitt used to be a stripper? The Hollywood heartthrob - now hooked up with Angelina Jolie with four kids - used to be part of a raunchy club called the Dancing Bares while a student at the University of Missouri.

A young man named Thomas Whelihan, who transpires to be one of Brad’s Sigma Chi fraternity brothers, said: “When a girl from one of our sister sororities turned 21, the Bares - there were seven of them - would put her in a chair and come out butt-naked with pillowcases on their heads and do a choreographed dance for her. The girls would be laughing so hard. It was great!”

Bradley Pitts - famed for being a bit of a prankster - earned himself a reputation for playing practical jokes on his University mates.

Another fraternity brother, Harry Lunt, tells In Touch Weekly magazine: “Once, during Spring Fling, Brad tanned the letters of the sorority house we were grouped with on his butt. He mooned the whole crowd. Everyone thought it was hysterical.”