Singer Anastacia accepted to appear in a new European TV talent show that aims to promote bands which are already playing and recording.

Anastacia, who become famous after appearing on a TV talent show in 1998, is one of the famous faces behind the new MTV show "A Cut", which will be broadcast in a five-part series.

She said: "There is a desperate need for a show like A Cut, because the shows that are out there are all pre-fabricated shows that are trying to make stars out of people that are just average, everyday people.

"In this business, TV is being taken up not by the true artists or the actors or the musicians any more, they are just being taken up by the common man, which gives everyone that feeling that there's a chance for me yet to be a star."

Speaking about the new show 'A Cut', she said: "It is not put together by a bunch of panels of people trying to find a band and find the music that they need to put in that band. It is about real bands that have been put together before we found them, that write their own material."