By Debbie Emery - Breaking Celebrity News Reporter

Ryan Seacrest says he was surprised when Sacha Baron Cohen, dressed as the title character for his upcoming comedy, The Dictator, dumped ashes on him during a red carpet interview prior the Academy Awards Sunday night.

As Breaking Celebrity News previously reported, Cohen, dressed as his Dictator alter-ego, General Shabazz Aladeen,  “accidentally” spilled the supposed ashes of North Korea’s Kim Jong Il all over the E! Host when he stopped to chat on the way into the Academy Awards. Seacrest and his crew were clearly stunned as his tuxedo was covered with the fake ashes, that also went all over Ryan's prime piece of red carpet real estate.

On his radio show on KIIS-FM on Monday morning,