Hollywood star Will Smith slapped a male television reporter who he said tried to kiss him on the lips as he walked down the red carpet for the Moscow premiere of Men in Black III.

The reporter, Vitalii Serdiuk from the Ukrainian television channel 1+1, made headlines earlier at the Venice Film Festival when he presented a bouquet of clearly unappreciated purple hydrangeas to Madonna and called her “my princess”.

Smith was even less charmed by the reporter, who approached him on the carpet outside the movie theatre on Friday night and tried to kiss him.