SHE’S known for her quirky style and ever-changing fashions, but this is an entirely new look for Lee Lin Chin.

The respected SBS newsreader turns her hand to TMZ-style gossip reporting in a clip from the SBS 2 series The Feed, returning to screens at 7:30pm tonight.

“GOSSIP! SCANDAL! RUMOURS! CHIN!” runs the tagline for the segment, titled Celebrity Chin Wag with Lee Lin Chin. The respected journalist explains that she’s being “forced to fulfil a contractual obligation,” before reluctantly reporting on such celebrity fluff as Katy Perry’s breasts and Kristen Stewart’s red carpet hair ‘don’t’.

“This has been Celebrity Chinwag with Lee Lin Chin and I’m … in the market for new representation,” she sighs at the end of the segment.

We love this tongue-in-cheek job change — even if Chin seems like she’d rather be anywhere else. Let’s hope this is a recurring segment on the new season of The Feed, so we can get answers to the following pressing questions: is Lee Lin Chin a Belieber? Is she shocked by Mariah Carey’s latest wardrobe malfunction? And does she think Kim and Kanye are really going to last?

It’s official: The Chin Is In.

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