Word is that Jessica Simpson’s controlling father and manager, Joe, wants to help out troubled Britney Spears in her time of need. While Jessica’s singing career is on the wane, she’s doing fine with dumb blonde movie roles and appearance fees. Sister Ashlee fared well on the charts with two number one hits.

The NY Daily News says they have a source that says Joe tried to set up a meeting with Spears, and that his daughter Jessica is ok with it:

According to an inside source, Joe Simpson is considering managing Spears’ career, or what’s left of it, just as he has done for Jessica and her sister, Ashlee.

The former Baptist minister even tried to set up a meeting over the weekend with Spears, our source attests – though Jessica’s rep Cindi Berger denies it.

While some might fear a diva-like rivalry between the two singers, our source says Jessica would be okay with the arrangement and even offered to put out a call to Britney, as the two are no longer competitors.

Spears has made more than $100 million from records and endorsements, while sales of Simpson’s five albums were lukewarm. But Joe Simpson adeptly steered his daughter into movies and lucrative appearances, like next week’s performance with the Pussycat Dolls at Pure in Las Vegas. And Ashlee had two No. 1 singles on the Billboard charts.

Joe has made digs at Britney’s family in his statements about her time in rehab. He said “I would never let that [rehab] happen to my daughters. Hopefully, her family will take care of the situation.”

Maybe Britney would be open to having Joe as a manager since she seems to think she didn’t need rehab and it was her old manager’s fault for putting her there.

Britney is fighting with her dad after he publically defended her fired manager, Larry Rudolph. She said she was praying for him and that “it’s sad” that all the men that have been in her life “do not know how to accept a real woman’s love.” Joe sure knows how to accept his daughters’ love. Maybe he would be a great choice as both a father figure and manager for Britney. Anything would be better than the mess she’s got going on now, although you know that Joe is not going to do anything about her terrible fashion sense, given how fugly Jessica dresses on a regular basis.

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