CHANNEL Nine will reportedly air a video of Heath Ledger allegedly on a drug binge at a Hollywood hotel tonight.

US program Entertainment Tonight said the Australian network had obtained copies of the video - allegedly taken at Los Angeles celebrity hangout Chateau Marmont in January last year - and planned to be the first television station in Australia to air a full version of the scandalous footage.

See a clip here: http://www.news.com.au/dailytelegraph/story/0,22049,23138097-5001021,00.html

Entertainment Tonight’s US east coast edition aired the footage earlier - but the US west coast edition did not do so in full, apparently for legal reasons.

But it did quote Nine Los Angeles bureau chief Rob Penfold as saying that the network was planning on airing the footage.

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"This tape has been in circulation and a lot of people have been trying to get hold of it," he told the program.

"It was always going to surface.

"It would appear that what the magazines have been writing about (Ledger’s alleged drug addiction) has been true."

Entertainment Tonight reportedly paid almost $A225,000 for the tape but Penfold said Nine had not shelled out any cash. "There was absolutely no money involved at all," he said.

Source: http://www.news.com.au/dailytelegraph/story/0,22049,23138097-5001021,00.html