Two Dunedin girls have become unwitting Japanese television stars.
Baldwin St residents Meila (8) and Laura (3) McCartney were caught up in the filming of an episode of Japanese travel show Twitetter.
Meila said it was ''really cool'' to become a television star.
The pair were selling loom bracelets outside their home near the top of the street to raise money for the Salvation Army when the crew from Twitetter strolled into the driveway.
''We are very lucky to actually live up here ... because you can see the hills and mountains - it's very beautiful,'' Meila said to the show's host Kei Otozuki.
Miss Otozuki was taken by Laura, saying ''she's cute, very cute''.
Meila enjoyed her 15 minutes of fame and hoped it would be a launching pad to something bigger.
''I want to be a singer when I grow up, or at least on TV,'' she said.
Miss Otozuki said the show had come to Dunedin ''looking for something great''.
''I heard that there are so many world number ones in Dunedin, so I came here to visit the experience,'' she said.
''The wilderness and the people I met are so nice - my face naturally becomes a happy face.''
The show screens during primetime on national network TV Man Union.
The episode based in New Zealand would show ''a lot of excitement out of Dunedin''.
Miss Otozuki said she had enjoyed the city.
''This is my first visit to Dunedin but it makes me want to come back again and again,'' she said.
After visiting Baldwin St, the crew was heading to the Otago Peninsula and, today, would fly to Auckland before returning to Japan early next week.
The episode would screen in Japan next month.
