Robert Pattinson on new hair: “I got a terrible infestation of nits”

Twilight fittie Robert Pattinson showed off his new hair cut on Ellen DeGeneres’ talk show this week – and joked that it was because he had nits! Sexy!

“It’s three days old,” the 24-year-old joked. “I got a terrible infestation of nits and I had to shave it all off.”

He then added: “No, I’m doing a film,”

Robert begins filming Water for Elephants opposite Reese Witherspoon in California this week.

“It’s about a circus in the 1930s,” he says of the film, in which he plays a circus worker who falls in love with an older woman, the wife of an animal trainer.