Richard Confirms Danity Kane is a Trio

Danity Kane star Dawn Richard has confirmed bandmates Aubrey O'Dat and D. WOODS are no longer members of the pop group rap mogul Diddy created on TV after the pair's firing recently featured on Making the Band. Stunned fans thought the showdown between the two singers and Diddy, aired on MTV on Tuesday night, was just a publicity stunt for the show - but Richard insists Danity Kane is now a trio. She tells Usmagazine.com, "Puff (Diddy) did not like (O'Day's) image... (or) where her image was going for the group." Richard, who admits she's still shocked by the decision to axe her bandmates, suggests O'Day's decision to pose scantily clad on the cover of urban magazine Complex helped seal her fate: "We had just did a signing with Dollhouse Teen, which is for 13, 14-year-old young girls. We can't do that one day and then the next day do an obnoxious cover. "He (Diddy) wants the fans, and he says he can't do that if we can continue to go in the direction that we were going. "Puff told me specifically that Aubrey is no longer in Danity Kane and Danity Kane will move forward without her." Meanwhile, confirming O'Day's departure, Diddy says, "I just want to work with the young lady that I signed, not the person that fame has made her," adding Woods got "caught up in the wrath" of O'Day. http://www.thebeatfm.com/main.html