Alfons Haider is an Austrian television presenter. In 2009, British media claimed the host of Strictly Come Dancing was the "real-life Bruno" from Sacha Baron Cohen summer 2009 film.
Haider does not believe he has much in common with the fictional character telling the Telegraph, "I never understood the comparison to myself at all. The only comparisons I can think of is that I'm Austrian, I'm gay, and I work for television, but the rest is completely fiction."Telegraph: Is this the real Bruno? (June 17, 2009)
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Born
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Birth place
Vienna, Austria
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Host of the Austrian equivalent of Dancing with the Stars
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Before walking out of a television interview in Vienna he poured a bowl of jelly babies over the interviewer's head
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Publicly announced he is homosexual
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Considered to be the inspiration for the title character in the film Bruno
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1985
Breakthrough role was in an Austrian children's television show as one half of a double act with a talking dog
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Trained at The Conservatory of Vienna and at the Lee Strasberg Institute in Los Angeles
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Reportedly is thehighest-paid presenter on ORF, the Austrian television station
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2009
Starring in the musical La Cage aux Folles
