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'Chk-chk-boom' girl lied

The Ch Chk Boom girl, Clare Werbeloff, has admitted she didn't see the Kings Cross shooting that made her an internet star.

Australia’s chk-chk-boom girl Clare Werbeloff will be one of the stars of the Nine Network’s line-up in 2010.

The 19-year-old who shot to international fame for her inventive — or, rather, invented — eyewitness account of a shooting in Sydney’s King’s Cross in May has been rewarded for scamming Nine’s news team with a role in the reality series The Real Hustle.

The show, which appears to be a cross between A Current Affair and Punk’d! judging by the short teaser screened at Nine's 2010 program launch-cum-Christmas lunch (a travelling roadshow for advertisers and media), will be hosted by Gyton Grantley, who also shot to fame on the back of faux gangsterdom, playing Carl Williams in the first series of Underbelly.

Nine is of course staking much on season three of Underbelly (subtitled The Golden Mile), which just happens to be set on the same strip in Kings Cross where Werbeloff saw/did not see ''a fat wog'' shoot ''a skinny wog''. Lots of synergy going on there.

Also catching the eye was a teaser for new reality show AFP. The show was ''two and a half years in the making'', according to the promo, and its makers were granted ''unprecedented access'' to Australian Federal Police operations. That access appears to have included being on the ground at the site of the Kokoda plane crash in which nine Australians died in August.

Nine also lifted the lid on TV’s worst-kept secret to confirm that variety show Hey Hey, It’s Saturday will be ''coming home'' in 2010. It will be the first time the show has screened regularly since 1999.

It is believed the show will begin its run in April for a season of about 20 episodes, most likely in the same Wednesday timeslot that brought huge ratings success for this year's two reunion specials.

Despite the change of day, it will still be called Hey Hey, It’s Saturday. ''Why not,'' one network source said. ''We have a long tradition with this in this company — just look at Women’s Weekly, a monthly magazine.''

Despite rumours that Rove McManus would leave Ten to front the show, it will once again be hosted by Daryl Somers, who hosted it for 28 years from its first incarnation as a Saturday morning show for kids in 1971.

The stand-out among Nine's line-up of imported shows for 2010 looks to be a big-budget remake of 1980s sci-fi series V, in which alien lizards invade the Earth. Its debut episode aired in the US on November 3 and attracted 14 million viewers, making it one of the great TV success stories of recent times.

Nine also has big hopes for Survivors, another sci-fi series in which the majority of the planet’s human population is wiped out by a virus, and Top Gear, the motoring show Nine wooed from SBS in October.

There was no mention at the presentation of a local version of the show, but Nine is certain to want to milk the franchise for all its worth.

According to one industry insider, the network is likely to have paid about $18 million for the rights to the show, including back episodes for all but series one.