P Diddy to create "the new Spice Girls"

P Diddy is to create what he dubs the "new Spice Girls" on the latest series of Making the Band.

The rapper, also known as Sean Combs, has found five girls for the project, and wants them to represent honourable traits, such as trust and courage.

Combs will call the group Danity Kane, which is based on a fictional anime character, drawn by one of the band members, Dawn.

She said: "We were in the studio and I actually draw anime, and Diddy had been throwing some names at us - Courage, Trust - but we want our name to mean something. Diddy looked at the superhero that was the anime that I drew and he was like, 'What's the name of that character?' I was like, 'Danity Kane,' and he was, like, 'Yo, that's dope, you guys can be five superheroes; five girls representing courage, representing all those things in one.'"