Bindi back for Kid's Choice Awards

I tasted it while I was there as well ... and it's not tasting too bad either... it's definitely edible if that's what you want to do, but most people just prefer to wear it,

Nickelodeon general manager Katrina Southon
The slime has been tested and is ready for use ahead of the Nickelodeon Kid's Choice Awards in Melbourne.

A raft of stars will attend the event on Saturday at Hisense Arena in Melbourne Park, including Bindi Irwin, who is flying back from Alaska where she's been shooting her TV show.

Irwin is favourite to take out the biggest greenie gong, up against the likes of Merrick and Rosso, Nicole Kidman and Isabel Lucas.

Nickelodeon Kid's Choice Awards are the only televised kids' awards in Australia and will be hosted by singer Natalie Bassingthwaighte and WWE superstar John Cena.

The awards are famed for humiliating star guests, usually with a bucket of green slime. And anyone can be a target.

Comedian Rove McManus will also attend, along with the cast from Are You Smarter Than A Fifth Grader.

He is up for the favourite Aussie award alongside Irwin and singers Delta Goodrem, Ricki-Lee Coulter and Shannon Noll.

Others stars to walk the orange carpet will include the Australian Idol finalists, Neighbours actor Dean Geyer, Shane Warne, Brian McFadden and Olympic medal winners Stephanie Rice, Sally McLellan, Matt Cowdrey and Liesel Jones.

Operator Please will open the show, while other performers include Coulter and Short Stack.

Bassingthwaighte will premiere her new song Alive.

Nickelodeon general manager Katrina Southon said she was excited to bring the event to Victoria after time in Sydney and the Gold Coast.

She said some big stars would be "getting slimed" this year and she had personally tested the stuff.

"I tasted it while I was there as well ... and it's not tasting too bad either... it's definitely edible if that's what you want to do, but most people just prefer to wear it," Southon told AAP.

There have been more votes, from 12- to 19-year-olds, than for any previous awards, with voting for the So Hot Right Now category open until 4pm Saturday.