Vin Diesel has made sure Paul Walker's memory lives on as he reveals he's named his newborn daughter after him.

Speaking to NBC's Today on Monday (March 23), he revealed: "I named her Pauline."

"There's no other person that I'm thinking about as I'm cutting this umbilical cord," he added. "I knew he was there and I felt like, you know, a way to keep his memory a part of my memory, a part of my world."

Diesel went on to explain why he chose the news anchor, Natalie Morales, to break the news

"I'm telling you this because I love you," he told the journalist. "I know that you are a good soul, and I know that this is in good hands."

Diesel and Walker were close friends during the filming of the Fast & Furious franchise, with Furious 7, Walker's final film, out 3 April, 2015.