A cheeky reporter made CHARLIZE THERON blush at the Venice Film Festival in Italy on Thursday (28Aug08) by asking her to marry him and then quizzing her about sleeping arrangements.
The Oscar winner was promoting new film The Burning Plan at a press conference when the unnamed reporter plucked up courage to pop the question.
He asked, “I really like you so much and have a lot of respect for you but I would like to marry you – and I have a question: which side (of the bed) do you prefer to sleep on?”
The quick-thinking actress replied, “The side that you are not on,” before joking, “Security! Security! Security!”
She then added, “You are very cute, but you know my boyfriend will kill you.”
Theron’s longterm beau is Irish actor Stuart Townsend.
She then further confused the world’s press by stating, “I am married, I am taken, whatever.”
Theron and Townsend have never officially wed, but the pair has always maintained they feel like a married couple.

Actress CHARLIZE THERON was left red-faced after embarrassing herself by confusing two major world cities.

The Monster star was discussing her voyage through Turkey toward the Istanbul International Film Festival with boyfriend actor Stuart Townsend, when she mistakenly named Budapest, the capital of Hungary, as one of her Turkish stops. The 32-year-old South African went on to describe a visit at a Turkish bazaar, purchasing Turkish carpets and the attention lavished on her while in “Budapest” – when in fact she had visited Turkish capital Istanbul.

She told reporters, “We went to Turkey. When we got over there, we rented a car and we drove all the way to Budapest. By the time we got to Budapest it was like the Cannes Film Festival, I’d never seen anything like it.”