A FRENCH reality TV star who gained fame and mockery over her trademark “hello? I mean hello” expression has been placed under investigation for attempted murder after her boyfriend was stabbed, prosecutors said Saturday.

    Prosecutors said Nabilla Benattia, detained Friday, was being probed for “attempted voluntary homicide” after her boyfriend was found stabbed in the chest at a hotel in Boulogne-Billancourt near Paris.

    Another investigation was also opened over a separate alleged armed assault in August in which her boyfriend, Thomas Vergara, was wounded in the back.

    Benattia, who denies any wrongdoing, rose to fame last year when she uttered “hello? I mean hello” in horror after learning that fellow female contestants had not brought shampoo with them on a show.

    Firemen were called to a hotel in Boulogne-Billancourt near Paris in the early hours of Friday after the 22-year-old, who has now become a television commentator known by her first name Nabilla, apparently had a fight with Vergara, whom she met on a reality TV show.

    Vergara had several knife wounds in the chest and his situation was considered serious though not life-threatening.

    Of Algerian and Italian origin and carrying French and Swiss nationality, she started appearing on reality shows in 2011.(SD-Agencies)