ALAN CUMMING - CUMMING: 'AMERICANS DON'T UNDERSTAND SCOTTISH STYLE'

Actor ALAN CUMMING was stunned to be criticised by a US magazine for wearing a skirt, when in fact he was wearing his national dress - a kilt.

The Scottish X2 star can't understand why Americans are so shocked when they see him walking the streets in the tartan garment.

He says, "On the internet recently I was on People magazine's worst-dressed list for the Ugliest Skirt Of The Year. They didn't even call it a kilt.

"I wore a kilt recently, a denim one. You'd have thought I was wearing a pair of panties or I was in a bikini, the shock and awe it caused."