Duo's hi-jinks earn spot on 'Funniest Home Videos'

Their short film is probably more embarrassing than award-winning, but two Jackson girls are living in the limelight for a little while.

A videotape of friends Chelby Chezem and Morgan Peters, both 12, will be shown today on the television show "America's Funniest Home Videos." The program airs at 7 p.m. on ABC.

The tape captures the girls dancing around a bedroom at the Chezem's home. Both are wearing more makeup than usual and have enlarged their breast sizes by stuffing their bras.

The dance routine was caught on tape by J.D. Chezem and Jessica Peters, both 7, who like to catch their siblings doing crazy things, said Toni Chezem.

Chelby Chezem was the first to suggest sending the tape to the ABC show. The children usually watch reruns of the program on the Fox channel.

Before her mother had even agreed to mailing the tape in, Chelby had addressed the envelope.

Since Toni Chezem didn't truly intend on sending the tape to any network, she didn't make a copy of it. "We just didn't think anything of it," she said.

In fact, she abandoned the idea and the family went on vacation. At her daughter's insistence she finally relented. The Chezems asked the Peters to mail the tape to "America's Funniest Home Videos" while the family was away later in the summer.

Toni Chezem doesn't recall much about the video but the show's producers "saw something and wanted to put it in," Toni Chezem said.

The segment will air after the second commercial during Friday's program.

The Chezems and the Peters were asked to sign releases for the show in September and were notified Wednesday that the tape would air tonight.