Grimsby outraged over Sacha Baron Cohen film treatment

Ali G and Borat star begins filming new movie about spies and football hooliganism in the northern town

Sacha Baron Cohen
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Sacha Baron Cohen has drawn the ire of people in Kazakhstan, America and Staines. Now the people of Grimsby are up in arms.

The Ali G and Borat star is working on a new film called Grimsby, about a spy forced to go on the run with his football hooligan brother in the 1980s.

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