** Steven Seagal was held down by his celebrity friends who smeared cake on his face **

” The Birthday Boy: A Legend Turns Another Year Older ”

Steven Seagal was born on April 10, 1952, making this beach ambush a fitting celebration of a man who has lived an extraordinary — and often controversial — life. Now in his early seventies, Seagal has been an actor, martial artist, musician, producer, and even a law enforcement officer. He holds a 7th-dan black belt in Aikido and was one of the first foreigners to operate an Aikido dojo in Japan — a remarkable achievement that underpinned his entire screen persona.

For decades, Seagal’s name was synonymous with a very specific brand of cool: unflappable, dangerous, quietly lethal. He walked slowly toward explosions. He broke wrists with surgical precision. He never raised his voice when a calm stare would do. On his birthday, surrounded by chaos and cake, that legendary composure has finally — hilariously — cracked.