On deadly ground!
Actor Steven Seagal and former UK politician George Galloway got up close and personal with several types of wildlife earlier this month while embarking on a tour of Dubai’s Fame Park private zoo — and the photos are wild.
Seagal, 71, and Galloway, 69, were treated to the once-in-a-lifetime experience by the zoo’s owner Dr. Saif Belhasa.
In photos obtained by The Post, Seagal, dressed in an all-black outfit, and Galloway can be seen playing tug of war with a liger without any protective glass.
Galloway, who was dressed in a white button-down shirt and matching blazer with black pants, was also snapped holding a massive serpent alongside Seagal and Belhasa, 54.
During his visit to the Dubai zoo, the “Hard To Kill” actor was pictured feeding the liger a bottle of milk while Galloway opted to feed the monkeys.
Other photos show the rather odd pairing holding a majestic golden eagle — which violates the United States’ Bald and Golden Eagle Protection Act, enacted in 1940 — and feeding a massive brown bear.
But it didn’t end there. The “Under Siege” actor’s outing also included standing just mere feet away from an alligator, sitting down while holding a massive python snake and hugging what appeared to be a sloth.
Despite interacting with the dangerous animals without protection, Seagal took it easy when he shook the paw of a small-clawed otter — from behind a protective sheet of glass.
Seagal has recently come under fire after speaking out about Russia’s invasion of Ukraine in 2022.
“Most of us have friends and family in Russia and Ukraine,” the action star told Fox News Digital mere days after the invasion. “I look at both as one family and really believe it is an outside entity spending huge sums of money on propaganda to provoke the two countries to be at odds with each other.”
“My prayers are that both countries will come to a positive, peaceful resolution where we can live and thrive together in peace,” the actor said.
The actor’s ties with Russia extend as far back as 2016, when he was granted citizenship and defended Russia’s leadership for its annexation of Crimea in 2014. Seagal called Vladimir Putin, 71, one of “the great living world leaders.”
According to the Kremlin, the granting of citizenship to the actor was supposed to strengthen the bond between the US and Russia.
Seagal was later banned from entering the Ukraine for five years after that country’s leadership deemed him to be a threat to national security.
In 2018, he was appointed as a special envoy for humanitarian ties with the United States by the Russian Foreign Ministry in order to “facilitate relations between Russia and the US in the humanitarian field, including cooperation in culture, arts, public and youth exchanges.”
Seagal was later inducted into the Pro-Putin A Just Russia — Patriots — For Truth political party at a ceremony.
Seagal was later heard in August 2022 pushing Kremlin propaganda during a trip to the Donbas region in eastern Ukraine.
“This is where HIMARS hit, 50 people were killed, another 70 were injured,” Seagal said in a video posted to Russian news site TVZVEZDA.
“It definitely looks like a rocket. If you look at the burning and other details, of course, it’s not a bomb. Not to mention the fact that Russia really has a lot of artifacts from HIMARS.”
The actor was later personally given Russia’s prestigious Order of Friendship by Putin himself for his “major contribution to the development of international culture and humanitarian cooperation.”
