You've been pranked, Internet. Amateur twerker "Caitlin Heller," whose viral video of her fiery upside-down twerking fail accrued nearly 9 million views since it was uploaded on Sept. 3, is not real — neither is her accident.
"Worst Twerk Fail EVER" star is a stunt woman whose real name is Daphne Avalon, late-night host Jimmy Kimmel revealed Monday night, detailing the intriguing web experiment.
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"We made it up. ... We shot that video two months ago," he said on Jimmy Kimmel Live (watch above). "We didn't send it to any TV stations, I didn't tweet it, we didn't put it on any news websites. We just put it on YouTube and let the magic happen, and the magic happened. "
Released after Miley Cyrus' twerking-infused MTV Video Music Awards performance, the original video shows the girl twerking on a door until someone opens it, sending her flailing onto a coffee table covered with candles. Her yoga pants catch on fire and then the video abruptly ends.
Kimmel showed what happened after the footage cut off: He entered the room with a fire extinguisher and saved the day, as part of the viral stunt, of course. Chalk one up for the naysayers who dubbed the clip as fake from the get-go.
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