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Baron Cohen blindsiding America as Bruno

British comedian Sacha Baron Cohen is back filming in the U.S., and this time he has outraged folks in Wichita, Kan.

British comedian Sacha Baron Cohen is back filming in the U.S., and this time he has outraged folks in Wichita, Kan.

Sacha Baron Cohen is shown in January 2007. He's now filming in the U.S. as Bruno. ((Kevork Djansezian/Associated Press))

Baron Cohen, who sparked several lawsuits after duping people in the guise of Kazakh newsman Borat in his last movie, is touring the U.S. as another of his alter egos, Bruno.

He surprised people at a Wichita airport this weekendby stripping down to a bare-midriff belly shirt and hotpants and then dancing.

Airport security became concerned over the show, especially when Bruno began to kiss other passengers.

Security didn't find anything illegal in the performance, but asked the film crew to leave.

Airport officials are now rewriting their policy on commercial filming they had granted permission to a film crew for a movie about a "European man" visiting America.

Baron Cohen is filming a mockumentary starring Bruno, a flamboyant Austrian TV presenter.

He and his crew are also reported to have disrupted an Easter play at a Kansas church by turning up in chains.

In his spectacularly successful Borat: Cultural Learnings of America for Make Benefit Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan, Baron Cohen caught cringe-inducing scenes with ordinary people by engaging them as the anti-Semitic, misogynistic, homophobic Borat.

He retired Borat, and his TV persona Ali G., after the film, saying they were too well-known.

Universal studios paid more than $42 million US for the rights to the Bruno movie, rumoured to be titled Bruno: Delicious Journeys Through America for the Purpose of Making Heterosexual Males Visibly Uncomfortable in the Presence of a Gay Foreigner in a Mesh T-Shirt.

With files from the Associated Press