diff --git a/src/Symfony/Component/Console/Formatter/OutputFormatter.php b/src/Symfony/Component/Console/Formatter/OutputFormatter.php
index 90b1970f4b..a053ac6ba0 100644
--- a/src/Symfony/Component/Console/Formatter/OutputFormatter.php
+++ b/src/Symfony/Component/Console/Formatter/OutputFormatter.php
@@ -142,6 +142,7 @@ class OutputFormatter implements OutputFormatterInterface
      */
     public function format($message)
     {
+        $message = (string) $message;
         $offset = 0;
         $output = '';
         $tagRegex = '[a-z][a-z0-9_=;-]*';
diff --git a/src/Symfony/Component/Console/Tests/Formatter/OutputFormatterTest.php b/src/Symfony/Component/Console/Tests/Formatter/OutputFormatterTest.php
index 3542680a88..03b789402b 100644
--- a/src/Symfony/Component/Console/Tests/Formatter/OutputFormatterTest.php
+++ b/src/Symfony/Component/Console/Tests/Formatter/OutputFormatterTest.php
@@ -166,6 +166,14 @@ class OutputFormatterTest extends \PHPUnit_Framework_TestCase
         $this->assertEquals("\033[37;41msome error\033[0m".$long, $formatter->format('<error>some error</error>'.$long));
     }
 
+    public function testFormatToStringObject()
+    {
+        $formatter = new OutputFormatter(false);
+        $this->assertEquals(
+            'some info', $formatter->format(new TableCell())
+        );
+    }
+
     public function testNotDecoratedFormatter()
     {
         $formatter = new OutputFormatter(false);
@@ -255,3 +263,11 @@ EOF
         ));
     }
 }
+
+class TableCell
+{
+    public function __toString()
+    {
+        return '<info>some info</info>';
+    }
+}