Online prank starts to pay off for Keiran

8:43am Monday 12th May 2008

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A LITTLE bit of humiliation has surely never paid off so well.

After being filmed being attacked by his younger brother and friends armed with cream pies, Keiran O' Neill has now won $10,000 for his troubles.

The 21-year-old was the star of a video featured on a website that is searching for the world's greatest undiscovered talent.

Viewers voted for their favourite films and Keiran's footage came out on top of the leader board for his category, Models or Fashion', netting him the cool cash prize that is worth around £5,000.

Now he is in the running to win $1 million in the grand final of the Clipstar website's competition, where he will face 35 other rivals to claim the top prize that also includes being signed up with a Hollywood talent agency.

Some of the competition he will face include an actor from north Hollywood, a director from Arkansas and a singer from Ireland.

Keiran filmed himself outside his North Park Brook Road home in Callands and got his brother and friends to cover him and his front garden in cream pies, using £20 worth of squirty cream, while speaking to the camera.

He said: "I didn't realise that the cream would be that sticky and it was really cold. It took all day to clean."

He is hoping to use the cash to go on a trip from Land's End to John o'Groats on a mock gumball rally, as well as treating his brothers who helped him scoop the top spot.

He said: "I'm made up, I should be getting the money in the next few weeks. Me and my best mate are going to meet up in the pub at the weekend and come up with some ideas.

"I found out on Wednesday, I waited a few hours while they counted the votes and then I got the phone call.

"My mum could not believe that I had actually won. She said that I was dead lucky. My brothers are made up, they are mithering for their cut of the money."

Voting for the overall winner on www.clipstar.com starts on November 1 and the winner will be declared on December 31.