ELLEN'S EGYPTIAN DIET SECRET

Here's the wacky weight-loss secret ELLEN DEGENERES should NOT keep under wraps: To pare pounds quickly for events like the Oscars, the daytime TV icon has her naked bod wrapped like a mummy in tightly wound gauze strips, which are soaked repeatedly during the one-hour treatment.

To jack up her metabolism, tightly wrapped Ellen then begins to boogie ferociously - looking like Old King Tut come alive and jivin' to "Dance Like an Egyptian"!