Sacha Baron Cohen, alternatively more famously known as Ali G and Borat, was arrested in Milan after crashing the Agatha Ruiz de la Prada show at Fashion Week in Milan. Dressed in a velcro suit, and almost unrecognizable as one of his characters, Bruno, a fashion designer he’s currently filming a movie around, Cohen got half way down the catwalk before they shut the lights down on him.
“Bruno’s” black velcro suit was covered in various articles of clothing, including a jacket, a dress, a handbag and a boot, and he wore what looked like a large black sheet as a cloak as he walked the catwalk, passing legitimate models on the way down. A man who appeared to be amused at first tried to grab him, but a model in a yellow dress wasn’t phazed by the intrusion and just kept doing her job, walking back down the catwalk, and blocking the guy from keeping his grip on Sacha.
After the comedian was removed, he covered his head in one of the pieces velcroed to him, wrapped his black cape around him and Milan police took him down to the station.
Dressed in a velcro suit he was bundled away by security guards and taken to a nearby police station where he was formally identified.
A police officer at Milan Sempione police station said: ‘A British national by the name of Sacha Baron Cohen was brought here and identified.
‘He did not have any ID documents on him so someone was sent to his hotel when he got here to fetch his passport.
‘He was actually very funny and the first thing he said was ‘Can I make a phone call’ like they do on TV.’
Cohen was released without charge and was last night still thought to be in Milan.
[From the Daily Mail]
Security at Fashion Week had been increased especially for Cohen after earlier in the week he and his film crew found their way backstage of another show by Italian designer Iceberg.
Scantily clad models screamed and security guards dived on him and several others with him and bundled them away. TV footage screened on Italian TV showed Cohen dressed as his creation Bruno, a flamboyant Austrian fashionista.
[From the Huffington Post]
Sacha Baron Cohen is in Milan filming his next mocumentary style movie Bruno: Delicious Journeys Through America for the Purpose of Making Heterosexual Male. I must admit, I have a thing for Cohen, so I’ll be seeing the movie, but the ridiculously long movie title was only funny the first time. And even then only the first time I heard it.
Note by JayBird: Here’s Sacha on the catwalk. He doesn’t get very far before security pounces on him.
😀 too funny! Bruno looks like he’s just come from a shoplifting spree.
I think he doesn´t even look so weird, i mean, designers put faaaar stranger outfits on the catwalk 😆
Very practical. Everything is on hand, just hanging off your body, plus, the layered look is returning. 😀
Anni – True, not in the least surprised he got past security! He’s also very tall and elegant so could so easily pass for the real thing. Still hilarious!
Oh, man.. Borat is a hideous person and that movie was offensive to.. Pretty much everyone, but he’s gorgeous in that blonde wig!
His conglomeration of accessories looks like something you’d see on the catwalks, anyway. High fashion is retarded.
I heart Sacha Baron Cohen. From what we’re hearing about Bruno and his new film so far, it doesn’t sound like it’s going to be quite as provocative and funny as Borat (gay jokes, we’ve been there) but I still can’t wait to see what Cohen presents us with in the end.
I hope Agatha Ruiz has a sense of humour and doesn’t press charges. Three cheers for SBC!
I can’t stand this man. The most pathetic part is that he thinks he’s funny 👿
I have to admit, I don’t like him. I want to, but I hate when people are put in the position of being the but of a joke without knowing it. That genre of comedy irritates me.
Sacha Baron Cohen is GOD 😀
A god, huh? Set your standards low, I always say. He’s an epic level douche and Borat is the first movie I ever walked out of.
i think it’s hilarious. Fashion shows are ridiculously stupid, and the people involved are flaky, shallow, and pretentious. The whole industry is moronic.
i lovee this guy, he;s too funny!
he is hilarious, i cant wait to see Bruno!
the best part about the outfit is the boot hanging off the side…:)
i think hes so handsome in real life, but that blonde wig really does something for him!
I know what you guys mean about being conflicted about “innocent bystanders” being made fun of by Borat. You’ll be happy to know that Bruno and Ali G. tend to pick more “deserving” subjects for mockery. More laughs, less cringes.
I was watching some clips of SBC as Bruno tonight on Youtube. I found them to be pretty amusing, and yes, he does pick on the types who deserve it – at least those I feel require a bit of perspective.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oa_ePERLvK4
I don’t get this hypocrisy among people who has no problem insulting a “celebrity” for their looks or any of that matter but they can’t take the joke on themselves.
Get over it, if you are standing in public anyone can make fun of you, just the same way you make fun of others.
ROFL too too funny. i have got to see his new movie.
BTW his daughter is sooo adorable. CONGRATS BORAT.
The word “bundled” is apparently popular.
The people ridiculized and USED in his movies should get a piece of the cake, ie, the box office money… Who sets up the limits between a joke and a public attack?
I enjoyed Borat but I would not like it if one of the “main characters” (innocent people) were me.
Pretty funny!
He DOES look hot with the blondeness going on, doesn’t he? Yummy!
Bleeding people with knives and casting spells to cure disease used to be what the majority supported too; so much for the majority opinion.
I’m one of the few who cannot stand that man… You would have to pay me to watch one of his movies.
Even though I think the fashion industry is ridiculous, that designer put a lot of time and effort into the presentation, and it’s deplorable that Cohen would interrupt it in that way. As for him going into a dressing room like that, those girls should press charges. How dare he disturb their privacy, especially when some/most were nude? (How are they deserving of that invasion of privacy, for those who think he only does things to people who deserve it?)
He does look better that color blonde, but that’s all I’ll say for him…
“ridiculized”…..too funny
he’s hot!
What??
He looks just like the “Homeless” Olsen Twin.
Are those…Ugg boots he’s got strapped to him? LOL!
I will say this: he’s got one FIERCE runway walk. Tyra would approve.
I LOVE this man! I did not recognize him. Briliant! And I agree this does look like something a designer would have anyway. It’s the best parody ever. Wow. I think Isla Fisher is the cutest and she is lucky to have a funny guy like that. Can you imagine? Maybe he takes it down a notch when they are hanging out. Not manic like Robin Williams who is funny but just makes me sorta nervous and uncomfortable after 5 minutes.
I cannot wait to see the movie and I was not a huge fan of the Borat thing. It just got old quickly for me.
Hed make a great model- look at the angles on the face… 🙂
Vdantev: We get it that you deplore this man but why are you making snide remarks on others who think he’s funny? Everyone else is entitled to their opinion, same as you.
That said, I hated Borat but I think SBC is a brilliant satirist.
The whole point of his characters interviewing unsuspecting “regular people” (i.e. drunken frat boys at the beach, people at a rodeo, etc.) and people in “high places” (i.e. politicians, celebs, intellectuals) is to EXPOSE the sometimes twisted values and hypocrisies of our Western society (North America/Great Britain). You think it isn’t fair that some people are exposed as Hitler fans? Or that some Oxford prof is exposed as a male chauvinist pig? I say, bravo. I have not seen his films, but his show was brilliant. And I must say, if you don’t think getting Ralph Nader and other politicians to do raps on social issues isn’t funny, then I give up.
CB, Paul Newman has died.
Keep ’em coming Dante. Even when we’re not in agreement, I do so love your style.
To those who say he should be a model – Sacha used to work as a model. No surprises here. And Brüno is hilarious. But there is a thing – i like the sketches better than the movies.
he looks amazing. lol. unrecognizable really.
Whoa I didn’t even recognize Sacha! He actually looks good there with that hairdo and his “poker model” face.
I used to work with someone who thought Borat was real. It was cosmic justice when he eventually “left the company”.
this guys is the man!
Bruno: Delicious Journeys Through America for the Purpose of Making Heterosexual Male
This title is a joke by the blog Defamer.
LOL! I guess anyone who doesn’t agree with VanD is pathetic.
This looks funny, although I wish Bruno had his original hair.
Thank God for Sasha Baron Cohen. He has married satire and reality tv brilliantly. I love the way he skewers those who take themselves too seriously, like the entire fashion industry. Please… it’s nothing more than playing runway Barbie. I can’t believe that these people can actually make a living.
That man is so fine!
I thought Borat was funny. Yeah, I think it’s funny when idiots are exposed as being idiots!
I didn’t love him in Sweeney Todd, though. I mean I LOOOVE Sweeney Todd, but he was just too… too Sacha Baron Cohen as Pirelli. But othere than that.. LOVE HIM!
And he looks hot as hell up there!
” if you don’t think getting Ralph Nader and other politicians to do raps on social issues isn’t funny, then I give up.”
I never saw his show (and that bit does sound funny), only Borat. The segment where he revealed the horrible bigot at the rodeo, I didn’t find funny, I found terrifying. When he had those drunken jerks in the motorhome on, I remembered back to a night where I was drunk and couldn’t think of a thing to say to a guy that I was in love with so I talked about my fingernails all night. If that segment of my life had been shown in the Borat movie, you all would have thought that I’m a self-centred princess and not a pathetic love-struck girl. A segment in a movie does not necessarily constitute the whole of a person.
Vdantev: We get it that you deplore this man but why are you making snide remarks on others who think he’s funny? Everyone else is entitled to their opinion, same as you.
Too true, but I wish people had such strong unshakable opinions on things that really matter, like the 700 billion dollar bailout- not just the honor of their media heroes d’jour, these drop in the bucket, fevered egos that taint our collective culture.
vdantev, this is a celebrity gossip website. People aren’t coming here to discuss the $700 billion bailout in Congress. You might find that type of discussion on political sites. 🙄
I love Sascha Baron Cohen. He is the most talented comedian.
Cohen is a disgusting filthy-minded con man and I see no talent whatsoever there. He is not funny, he is not good-looking and specializes in offending people. That is how he “made it”…by doing and saying horrible things for shock value. Anything for attention. Hearing those poor immature college kids SCREAM with laughter in that terrible first movie made me embarrassed and alarmed for those poor dumb children.
VdanteV you are SO right. A god??? What are we coming to??? That sorry childish filthy racist juvenile silly minded man funny? Good looking? Eeek!
And YEAH why aren’t we discussing more important issues than this creep?
I can’t stand him. He’s not funny. I hope he goes to jail for this. He should know the distincion of making fun of people without being disrespectful. I never liked any of the characters he played. Borat sucked big time but this Bruno character set the bar for obnoxiousness higher.
borat is funnier than adam sandler…
he looks like a gay ,funny?
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