Washington, July 16: Actor Luke Wilson revealed that he had been left devastated when he was banned from entering the gates of the famous Playboy Mansion for over a year.

Wilson admitted that he had been banned after he was caught trying to sneak a pal inside Hugh Hefner's house for a party by passing him off as his actor brother Owen Wilson.

"I got DNA-ed from the Playboy Mansion in Los Angeles. That means "do not admit" - that`s their special word. I tried to get a friend in and I`d shown up and they said `Who are you with` and I`m like `I`m with my brother Owen` and they`re like `We need to see him`. It was actually my friend Eckelman, who doesn`t look anything like Owen. I was not allowed to go there for a year and a half," Contactmusic quoted him, as saying.

And, Wilson was apparently so shattered by the ban that he literally grovelled to get back into Hefner's good books.

"I had to make kind of a tearful phone call to Mary, the woman who kind of runs the operation. I said, `Mary what I did was stupid. It was wrong. Hef`s (Hugh Hefner) been so generous to me...` I actually did, I think, cry on the telephone!" he added.

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