Baron Cohen?s character Bruno causes security scare at Wichita Airport

WENN is reporting that security at a Wichita, Kansas airport was put on "red alert" when a "European man" was "[stripped] down to tight shorts and [danced] in the lobby of Wichita Airport."

Baron Cohen is filming a movie as his flaming Austrian TV personality Bruno, and the Wichita locals didn't take kindly to his half-dressed invasion of the airport. They also had no idea who he is. I found the original story about this on Kansas.com, and there's no mention of Baron Cohen or Bruno, so it's safe to say that more people are fooled by this character than his better-known Kazakh incarnation, Borat:

Officials at the Wichita Mid-Continent Airport are rewriting their policy on commercial filming inside the terminal after a film crew stripped down and started dancing at the airport.

The crew had permission from the airport to film a scene on March 18 based on a "European man" visiting America.

But security workers became concerned when they began dancing in tight short shorts, kissing and fighting in the lobby.

Security couldn't find anything illegal about the performance, but asked the crew to leave.

Brad Christopher, assistant director of airport operations, says it won't be as easy to film at the airport in the future.

[From Kansas.com]

I love how this is reported completely straight-faced, and they have no idea that it was comic Baron Cohen, calling him a "European man."

At least one celebrity was said to be fooled by Bruno for the upcoming film. Mike Walker reports in the current issue of the National Enquirer that Ben Affleck called up comedian Sarah Silverman and told her that he did an interview with an "openly gay European fashion journalist" who asked him inappropriate questions like "how do you like (n-words)?" Sarah clued him in that it was Sacha Baron Cohen in his Bruno character. I'm not so quick to believe that Affleck wasn't in on it, but maybe we'll see how good an actor he is once the movie comes out.

Here's a clip of Bruno interviewing some Christian guys, thanks to Hollywood.tv for linking it. It really is religion day today.