Anna Nicole Smith to become reality TV star

Former Playboy model Anna Nicole Smith is to be the subject of a new reality TV show.

She will star in The Anna Nicole Smith Show which will be shown on American cable channel E! from August.

The show is described as "a candid and compelling look" at Smith and her inner circle.

They include her 16-year-old son Daniel, her lawyer Howard K Stern and her purple-haired assistant Kim.

A spokesman for E! told the Hollywood Reporter: "The key to the show is Anna Nicole Smith and how she interacts in the public life.

"Five days of the life of Anna Nicole Smith are far more riveting and engaging than the entire lifetime of most people."

Smith won $88m (€94.8m) in court after the death in 1995 of her billionaire husband J Howard Marshall.

They were married when she was 26 and he was 89.