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Celebrity witch Fiona Horne is on the brink of casting a spell over the whole world.
The renaissance in wizardry with the release of Harry Potter together with September 11 has sparked a global outcry for a spiritual alternative.
Her fourth Australian witchcraft book, 7 Days To A Magickal New You, is being launched in Surry Hills tonight - but the former rock singer from Def FX is about to leave our shores permanently after receiving the news her US visa came through yesterday.
Confidential found a buoyant Horne yesterday, buzzing she would now be able to go ahead with the television series she has signed with Columbia Tristar in the US. The company wants to make a 22-episode lifestyle show based on witchcraft.
"It will have things like a spell-casting segment instead of a cooking segment, and guests and lifestyle alternatives," Horne told Confidential yesterday.
"There are a few channels interested in picking it up because the book has been so huge there."
Horne's books are best-sellers, with kids and adults all over the world trying to sample their own brand of magic by using the Wicca witch's simple spells.
With 15 years of witchery under her pointy hat, Horne can even be held responsible for the list of children this year who have a snake on their Santa list - because their idol has two, her "magical partner" Lu Lu (she is allergic to cats) and her pet python Sebastian.
So popular have the books become overseas that Aaron Spelling recently used them in the script of his popular show Charmed.
Following that, Horne has now almost signed on the dotted line for a cameo in the spellbinding show, which stars her friend Julian McMahon.
"Although it isn't a done deal yet, I've had three meetings with the Spelling chairman and hopefully it will be set by Christmas.
"It's funny because I always had this weird feeling something like this would happen with Charmed."
Also boiling in the pot is her 15-part television series called Sexy Spells for Granada television, which is about to air on British cable TV station Men and Motors.
But Horne, who is also keen on pursuing acting after her stage appearance in The Vagina Monologues earlier this year (as well as singing), is mindful she doesn't only want to be known as a witch.
"I don't want to paint myself into a corner ... but this seems to be the direction everything is heading."