Russian spy Anna Chapman to host own TV show (VIDEO)

Anna Chapman, the red-headed Russian spy expelled from the U.S. last July, will host her own weekly television show about mysterious phenomena, according to reports.

Chapman, remembered for her sultry Facebook presence and Playboy spread, will present "Secrets of the World with Anna Chapman" on Ren TV, a channel known in Russia for its independent political reporting, said spokesman Marina Volodina.

"Secrets of the World with Anna Chapman" will be experimental and will investigate the "most mysterious phenomena of the modern world," Volodina said. The first show airs Jan. 21.

As GlobalPost's Miriam Elder reported in July, Chapman was one of 10 men and women arrested in New York, New Jersey, Cambridge, Mass., and Washington, D.C. who were involved in a sloppy Russian spy operation that appears to have gathered little in terms of solid information.

Chapman was arrested in New York after the FBI tracked the receipt for a mobile phone she bought the previous day. The address she gave Verizon was: “99 Fake Street.”

Chapman was the most high-profile of the 10 members of what the Justice Department called a “deep-cover” spy ring. She gave her first television interview in December, after the U.S. edition of Playboy magazine published nude pictures of the 28-year-old agent.

Since being extradited in the biggest spy swap since the Cold War, Chapman has made attention-grabbing public appearances, rallying youth for Vladimir Putin's political party, attending a rocket launch to wave off Russian cosmonauts and agreeing to play a role in a short film.

Broadcast at the state-controlled Channel One's New Year's Eve gala, the film stars Chapman as a sultry femme fatale opposite Maxim Isayev, a fictional hero from the legendary Soviet series, "Seventeen Moments of Spring."

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