Viral Video Starring a Twerking Girl Who Sets Herself on Fire Was a Hoax by Jimmy Kimmel

Last night on Jimmy Kimmel Live, host Jimmy Kimmel revealed that the viral video starring a girl named Caitlin Heller who sets herself on fire during a twerking mishap was an orchestrated hoax. “Caitlin” is actually a stuntwoman named Daphne Avalon, and Kimmel shows the unedited version of the video in which he douses Daphne with a fire extinguisher.

Here’s the original video that went viral and gathered more than nine million views last week:

http://youtu.be/CddMD3QqTFs

via Deadline