WATCH: Bruno to Matt Lauer – "Hug Me!"

Austrian fashionista Bruno, aka Sacha Baron Cohen, appeared on the Today Show Thursday morning to promote his new movie Bruno and declared that he wanted to be an international superstar "like Heidi Montag." In the end, he resorted to begging Matt: "Hug me!" (Photo: WENN)

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