Reproduced from The Sun 1997

Outrageous Debbie Currie, 22, will today reveal she can't even SING.

Her pop career was part of an elaborate probe by ITV's The Cook Report into chart-rigging.

A source close to her said last night: "She fooled a lot of people into thinking she really wanted to be a pop star.

"Debbie talked on TV about it to Richard and Judy and the Big Breakfast. Lots of newspapers were taken in. She thinks it's hilarious." The Sun was NOT fooled by Debbie's antics as she hyped her record You Can Do Magic into the Top 100.

Stunts included being interviewed on TV alongside ex-Tory MP Edwina, boasting of four-in-a-bed romps and telling how she lost her virginity at 15.

She even posed for this picture - topless with fried eggs on her nipples. But all the time the yolk was on the music industry.

The Cook Report secretly filmed her disc being snapped up in BULK by buying squads at chart-return record shops.

The show hoped her record would make the Top Ten - but the scam backfired when it only got to No 86.

Debbie was also to have performed a concert with ex-East-Ender Sean Maguire but just four tickets were sold.

She will reveal the hoax at a London press conference today. The first episode of Roger Cook's two-part investigation will be screened on June 3.

The source said: "Debbie was happy to go along with the idea."