British comedian Sacha Baron Cohen, best known for his comic character Borat, was hauled into an Italian police station on Friday after causing havoc at a Milan Fashion Week show.
In the guise of another of his creations, flamboyant Austrian fashion reporter Bruno, Baron Cohen leapt onto the catwalk during Spanish designer Agatha Ruiz De La Prada's show and hurled himself around, dressed in a black cloak.
Press photographers at the show called for security to remove Baron Cohen, who then spent half an hour in a nearby police station while his passport was fetched from his hotel.
He was released without charge.
The actor is in Milan working on a new film shot in the same mockumentary style as 2006's smash hit Borat: Cultural Learnings of America for Make Benefit Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan.
Fashion houses were put on high security alert this week after Baron Cohen and his film crew managed to get past security to the backstage area of Italian label Iceberg's show on Wednesday.
An actor dressed in head-to-toe velcro is said to have run about screaming and hurling himself at the clothes racks.
Iceberg's flustered stylist, Paolo Gerani, managed to stop the man and have the crew removed.
Baron Cohen was blocked by security while attempting to enter the Dsqaured show on Thursday.
Bruno: Delicious Journeys Through America for the Purpose of Making Heterosexual Male is due out next spring.
