Singer Anastacia has hit out against reality television shows, while promoting a new MTV series, in which she is due to star.
The singer, who herself shot to fame after appearing on a talent show on television in 1998, is due to appear in the five-part series entitled 'A Cut', which promotes bands, musicians and singers who are already performing and recording rather than auditioning to find new stars.
Speaking about the reality television phenomenon, Anastacia 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."
