A young Sydney woman whose off-the-cuff account of a shooting outside a Kings Cross nightclub last weekend made her an overnight YouTube celebrity has been exposed by police as a fake.
19-year-old Clare Werbeloff shot to international fame with her colourful account of a "fat wog" shooting a "skinny wog".
Nearly 300,000 people had watched her account of the incident on video-sharing website YouTube.
Marketers also were quick to cash in.
T-shirts emblazoned with "chk chk boom", the phrase which Ms Werbeloff used to describe the gunshot, were being sold on a US website.
But now Ms Werbeloff has admitted to Sydney police that her "eyewitness" account was bogus.
Detectives were quoted in the Sun-Herald newspaper on the weekend as saying that Ms Werbeloff's story of the shooting of Justin Kallu, 27, the so-called "skinny wog", was made up.
"We have interviewed her and she has not witnessed the shooting," said Detective Inspector Matt McQueen of the Kings Cross Police. "She has admitted to making it all up and has not witnessed the shooting."
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'Chk-Chk Boom' girl made it all up
Clare Werbeloff 's interview with Channel 9 News in Kings Cross became an overnight YouTube sensation.
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