Bingle's baffled by bikini-babe

UH OH. Someone's telling porkies. Lara Bingle says a girl who is claiming to be her cousin isn't a relative at all.

Confidential reported earlier this week that Zoo Weekly Swimsuit Calendar model Nicole King, who claimed to be related to Bingle, took up bikini modelling after being inspired by her "second cousin".

But Bingle, who is filling in for expectant mum Jackie O on 2Day FM, took to the airwaves yesterday to deny the claim, saying she has never heard of this long-lost relative.

"This is so bizarre. I do not, I don't have a cousin," she told co-host Kyle Sandilands. "This is just bizarre."

Bingle added: "I'd be so embarrassed to be lying, I have never even met her in my life, I don't know who she is."

King, meanwhile, is standing firm, saying that her mother, Jennifer King, is a cousin of Bingle's late father, Graham Bingle.

"We are definitely related. My mum and Lara's dad were cousins," King told Confidential. "Of course we're related ... we both look great in a bikini."