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Sacha Baron Cohen knocks elderly woman offstage for Britannia Awards prank

Sacha Baron Cohen got the audience good at the BAFTA Los Angeles Britannia Awards Saturday night when he pulled off a prank that shocked attendees.

As he was strutting around the stage, cane in hand a la Charlie Chaplin after being announced as the winner of the award for excellence in comedy, the actor "fell" into a wheelchair-bound woman who Selma Hayek had introduced as "Grace Cullington," who as a little girl had appeared in 1931's "City Lights" alongside Chaplin. As Cohen stumbled, the woman's wheelchair was pushed to the edge of the stage and she tumbled out and onto the floor feet below, as the audience gasped in horror.

She lay still, face down on the floor as several people rushed to her.

It wasn't until Cohen gave his acceptance speech afterward that attendees realized he had pranked them.

"Grace Cullington is the oldest, no, sorry, was the oldest surviving (Chaplin co-star). I dedicate my award to her," the actor said as the woman was carried out of the room. "This is obviously a tragedy. She has upstaged me. But on the bright side, what a great way to go, giving an award to me. Thus, she'll probably make the Oscars' In Memoriam segment."

But it turns out "Cullington" was actually a st

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Sacha Baron Cohen knocks elderly woman offstage at Britannia Awards

Six prizes were handed out at the BAFTA LA Jaguar Britannia Awards last night, and luckily only one resulted in death.

While accepting the Charlie Chaplin Britannia for Excellence in Comedy at L.A.’s Beverly Hilton Hotel, Sacha Baron Cohen was given a vintage cane by Grace Cullington, the oldest living actress who worked with the honor’s namesake, and he proceeded to re-create the tramp’s signature penguin waddle around the wheelchair-bound octogenarian. As the audience cooed over the sweetness of the moment and raised their cameraphones to capture it for future social-media bragging, Baron Cohen tripped, slammed into her chair and sent the woman flying face-first off the stage and into the audience. The “ahhs” turned into gasps and people in black-tie jumped out of their seats to offer aid as her lifeless body was flung over the shoulder of security and carried off.

Watch the start of Baron Cohen’s stunt below:

“Grace Cullington is the oldest, no, sorry, was the oldest surviving [Chaplin co-star],” Baron Cohen said following the fall. “I dedicate my award to her. This is obviously a tragedy. She has upstaged me. But on the bright side, what a great way to go, giving an award to me. Thus, she’

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