Celebrity | celebrity Why Robert Pattinson Smells Awful Twilight, New Moon star is really just fending off the paps By Evann Gastaldo Posted Nov 23, 2009 9:34 AM CST Copied Kellan Lutz, left, and Robert Pattinson arrive at the Teen Choice Awards on Sunday Aug. 9, 2009, in Universal City, Calif. (AP Photo/Matt Sayles) Robert Pattinson has a reputation as more than just every tween’s heartthrob: He apparently stinks, and New York finally found out why. “If he doesn’t change his clothes and the paparazzi get pictures of him in the same outfit all the time, then they can’t sell the pictures,” the Twilight star’s onscreen dad says, going a step further to take responsibility for the stink: “That’s what I said he should do.” How do his co-workers deal? “You know what, I think maybe out of a defense mechanism, I don’t sniff him,” says co-star Ashley Greene, while New Moon director Chris Weitz adds, “I can smell him coming, that’s the nice thing.” Read These Next Mexico's missing count is moving in the wrong direction. Trump aide gives punny response to Springsteen. Trump sets 10% tariff, then raises it. Hundreds offer to adopt dog abandoned at airport. Report an error