Twerk Fail an elaborate Jimmy Kimmel hoax A wildly popular "Twerk Fail" video that went viral last Friday was actually just a genius hoax orchestrated by US late-night TV host Jimmy Kimmel, he revealed on his show Monday night. "To you conspiracy theorists who thought the video was a fake, you're right - we actually just made it up," he admitted. The video featured a college-aged blond girl who falls onto a table of candles while practicing a handstand twerk. She crushes the coffee table and lights herself on fire. On Jimmy Kimmel Live last night, the host staged a fake interview with pretend twerking victim Caitlin Heller - then Kimmel revealed a "directors cut " in which he is shown busting into the girl's room with a fire extinguisher at the end of the video. Some viewers guessed the video was too good to be true from the beginning , saying nobody would light candles before a twerk-fest. The video raked in more than 9 million views on Youtube and was gawked at by news anchors across the country, who believed it was real. It turns out the twerking "victim" was actually Daphne Avalon, a Hollywood stuntwoman.