It's the question that intrigued celebrity-watchers for weeks: Did Lana Coc-Kroft really get dangerously sick because she swallowed a live cockroach for a reality TV show?
Tomorrow night the nation may - or may not - find out as the crucial episode of the top-rating Celebrity Treasure Island reaches our screens.
Coc-Kroft and other contestants have refused to confirm reports that they had swallowed cockroaches as one of the stunts for the show.
Yesterday the television presenter and former Miss New Zealand said she preferred not to comment about the programme or her illness.
But her agent, Andy Haden, said Coc-Kroft had put on a few pounds and was recovering well.
She still had "a way to go", he said, but he was pleased with her progress.
Broadcaster TVNZ had discussed with Coc-Kroft and her family whether it ought to proceed with the show or not.
They said that a decision to go ahead was made on the basis of her recovery.
Coc-Kroft ended up in Auckland Hospital in April after being flown from Fiji, where she had collapsed while on location filming the Touchdown Television reality show.
She was in critical condition for several days with an illness which took doctors some time to diagnose.
The illness was eventually labelled Group A streptococcal toxic shock syndrome.
Celebrity-watchers will soon know if the cockroach did it
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