P. Diddy to release butt book

Bang Showbiz:

P. Diddy is set to release a book about bottoms.

The rapper and entrepreneur - whose real name is Sean Combs - has teamed with Interscope records chairman Jimmy Iovine for the coffee-table photo-album publication dedicated to women's backsides, featuring images taken by fashion and music photographer Raphael Mazzucco.

News of the book - which goes on sale in November - comes soon after the Dirty Money hitmaker recently brought out a new fragrance, called Sean John Empress, and signed up Kelly Rowland to be the face of the scent.

Diddy is not the only celebrity set to release a book in November, with Oprah Winfrey planning to release a 240-page publication entitled The Oprah Winfrey Show: Reflections on an American Legacy.

The coffee-table book - which will be priced at US$50 - will feature 150 images and personal memories, as well as highlights from the media mogul's chat show, which covered a number of social issues in the United States and came to an end in May 2011 after 25 years.

Lady Gaga is also set to be the focus of a new pictorial book, which has been described as a "visual dialogue" and is set to contain 350 colour pictures of the Born This Way hitmaker.

Announcing the publication, which will also be released in November, Grand Central Publishing said: "The book will showcase over 350 colour and black and white photographs taken during the 10-month period in which Richardson followed Lady Gaga and had complete access to her everyday life, with nothing being off limits."