Bollywood actress and Celebrity Big Brother winner Shilpa Shetty is to star in a London musical, a newspaper reported today.Shetty will star in the musical Miss Bollywood to open in London in September and later travel to Broadway, The Indian Express newspaper said.

“The whole song-and-dance routine of a musical really fascinates me and I think I’m a natural in the art,” it quoted Shetty as saying.She said the musical was about a day in the life of a Bollywood actress and would give Westerners a glimpse of Indian traditions and customs.“I want foreigners to get familiar with Indian culture. Racism breeds out of ignorance,” Shetty was quoted as saying.

A famous actress in India, Shetty became internationally known after winning reality show Celebrity Big Brother and the racism controversy involving fellow contestant Jade Goody.Shetty has acted in more than 40 Bollywood movies since her 1993 debut. Her latest movie, Metro, is a Hindi-language film about careers pushing love to second place.