Comedian Chris Ramsey was arrested wearing just his pants after police barged into his hotel room in the middle of the night.

The Celebrity Juice regular was forced against a wall and handcuffed in what turned out to be a case of mistaken identity.

He tweeted: "Well...the police have definitely just kicked my hotel door in and handcuffed me. I'm f shaking!!

"Hotel staff Id'd me as someone who had been in the hotel earlier threatening staff with a knife.

"So when I checked in just now they called the police and sent them up to my room. I kept asking 'is this a joke? when he said 'no come with us'."

Giving a running commentary of events, the Geordie comic continued: "Police put handcuffs on me and began to march me out of the room when I shouted 'but I'm in my kegs!

"I love the idea that someone who was in earlier threatening staff with a knife, would then check in later for a kip!!"

The 29-year-old, who was relaxing ahead of his All Growed Up live show at London's Lyric Theatre tonight, said at first he thought it was a prank.

After police left, he wrote: "Just had an interesting chat with the night manager ... Currently drinking beers from the minibar ... I doubt they'll be on the bill when I leave."

But he later saw the funny side, tweeting: "About to go down for hotel breakfast ... I'm wearing a black T-shirt and a cap. Just in case I get mistaken for a murderer or something."

A spokeswoman for Metropolitan Police said officers were called to a "racially aggravated" incident involving a man threatening hotel staff with a knife.

She added that officers returned at 12.36am, when they mistakenly detained - and later released - Ramsey.