Jessica Simpson’s controlling dad is at it again. Her manager dad Joe is said to be partially to blame for the dissolution of her marriage to Nick Lachey and now he supposedly wants Jessica to stop hanging out with Eva Longoria, because she steals the limelight from Jess.

He didn’t just tell Jessica that he didn’t like her seeing Eva, he went behind her back to dupe Eva into not attending Jessica’s birthday party with the rest of her friends.

Poor Jessica is going to be left with a half-assed hairdresser as her only friend in this difficult, single time. She needs all the girlfriends she can get and that’s awful of her dad to try to cut Eva Longoria out of her life.

Maybe now that the news has got out Jessica will tell her dad to step off finally. It’s about time she dumped him as her manager and stepped out on her own.

Here she is at Lodge Steakhouse in LA with some other girlfriends. The pictures are from Sweet Kisses.net, where they say she “shows off her fuller figure.” Teetering between a size 6 and 8 doesn’t seem like a full figure to me, but I suppose everything is relative in Hollywood.

And who’s that tight-faced woman in the terrible pink gathered dress behind her? She doesn’t look fun or trash-talking like Eva. (Not that I like Eva, but she’s probably fun to hang out with.)