(Cover) - EN Showbiz - Beth Ditto has revealed Oscar Wilde changed her outlook on charity.

The Gossip front woman who shot to fame in 2006 thanks to the success of the bands breakthrough record, Standing in The Way of Control - says that Oscar Wildes novel The Picture of Dorian Gray changed her perspective on vanity.

The outrageous songstress says that the authors gothic horror fiction affected the way she viewed peoples desire to help others.

I always feel really ridiculous about this, but I read it about three years ago, and Id never really thought about the motives of doing things for other people, she told NME magazine. You dont really realise it but you do things to make yourself feel better, not the other person. Its like a kind of vanity. It really changed the way I thought of charity.

The novel tells of a young man named Dorian Gray, the subject of a painting by artist Basil Hallward. Basil is impressed by Dorian's beauty and becomes infatuated with him, believing his beauty is responsible for a new mode in his art. Dorian expresses a desire to sell his soul to ensure the portrait Basil has painted would age rather than himself which leads to the demise of the vain man. (C) Cover Media