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The Monty Python star has revealed that he and his TV crew were detained by armed guards from the country's intelligence agency, SEBIN, for hours while making his new three-part series, Michael Palin in Venezuela. "Things got quite heavy. It wasn't just the fact that they stopped us from filming, it was the force with which we were stopped," Palin recalled, reports the Mirror. "It started with a couple of policemen, then a couple of the National Guard, and then along came men with rifles, bulletproof vests and helmets. It was the kind of thing you'd expect to encounter if an embassy was being bombed; it was quite alarming."