Steven Seagal Lugs Watermelons In Bizarre Photo-Op With Belarusian Leader

Much like Baby in ‘Dirty Dancing’, if there’s a watermelon that needs carrying, Steven Seagal will be on it in a snap.

And now, pleasingly, we have these shots of him appearing to be helping out Belarusian premier Alexander Lukashenko on his allotment.

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The action movie veteran and friend of Vladimir Putin was invited to the president’s residence, north of Minsk this week.

Dressed in his trademark Asian-style collarless shirt and orange-tinted specs, he was also treated to a carrot.

The baffling photo opportunity in front of the Belaruisian media came, according to the president’s spokesperson Natalya Eismont, because Seagal ‘had long wanted to meet Lukashenko’.

The 64-year-old star of movies like ‘Under Siege’ and ‘On Deadly Ground’ reportedly has a ‘consultancy contract’ with a developer of online games based in Belarus.

Bizarrely, it’s not the first time that a celebrity has visited Lukashenko, described as being ‘Europe’s last dictator’, during harvest season.

Gerard Depardieu dropped in last year, and was given a lesson in how to use a scythe.

Image credits: AP/Reuters