We've heard the Christmas tree's side of the story -- reported in a London newspaper shortly after a hotel there had its decorated tree felled -- but what does Kiefer Sutherland have to say about it?

"We were just having fun," the "24" star told me, grinning, noting, as the original Sunday Mirror report had, that he'd offered to pay for the damage before he knocked over a 12-foot Christmas tree at the Strand Palace Hotel last month.

And yes, in Jack Bauer style, he did it in one blow.