The world’s most popular TikTok star, Khaby Lame, has left the United States after being detained by federal agents in Las Vegas.

Born in Senegal, he moved to Italy with his working class parents when he was an infant and has Italian citizenship.

A spokesperson for the Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) said the Senegalese-Italian influencer was held at the city’s airport on Friday after “overstaying the terms of his visa".

He arrived in the US on 30 April and had attended the Metropolitan Museum of Art’s annual fundraising gala in in New York.