KUALA LUMPUR: While most celebrities are dressed up to the nines for the Oscars, actor John Cena almost bares it all as he turned up earlier at Los Angeles' Dolby Theatre, home of the Academy Awards.
The 46-year-old actor appeared on stage during the telecast of the 96th Academy Awards show to present the award for best costume design appearing to wear nothing at all.
The show's host Jimmy Kimmel set up the bit by sharing a little bit of Oscars history, nodding to the 1974 Academy Awards when a streaker ran across the stage. Kimmel jokingly said, "Can you imagine if a nude man ran across the stage today? Wouldn't that be crazy?"
From the corner of the stage, Cena peeked his head out and told Kimmel he didn't want to "do the streaker bit anymore."
"It's an elegant event. Honestly, you should feel ashamed right now for suggesting such a tasteless idea.
"The male body is not a joke!" Cena complained.
Kimmel argued that Cena, who is also a famed WWE wrestler, wrestles in the nude.
"Dude, I don't wrestle naked," Cena said, adding: "I wrestle in jorts!"
"Jorts are worse than naked!" Kimmel said as the audience laughed.
At this point, Cena – carrying an oversized winner's envelope over his private parts – walked to the centre of the stage as the audience's jaws dropped.
While Cena appeared to have been naked on stage, CNN reported that the actor "was covered in the groin and butt crack area – and the envelope was velcroed to him."