Britney Spears is reportedly looking to come under the attentive guidance of Jessica and Ashlee Simpson's manager, their father, Joe Simpson.

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.

Well, guy, the "two are no longer competitors" because the two are no longer competing at all. I know people are expecting this Pussycat Dolls hosting gig to turn things around for Jessica, but Denise Richards did it last year and it didn't exactly catapult her back into the spotlight. And if Joe Simpson can find Britney's career amid all that hair on the dusty barber shop floor where she left it, perhaps he really is a man of God.

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• Happy birthday, Suri Cruise. Only three more years until the indoctrination really starts to sink in! [NYDN]

• No, Posh, hourglass figure is attractive. Hourglass cleavage is weird. [HT]

• It would have been too easy if it ended with the DNA test. Now Birkhead's gay. [Yeeeah]

• Upskirts with panties are 12.8 percent less trashy. [CityRag]

• Christina Ricci needs a babysitter to tell her not to buy any more furs. That's not a joke, and there should go your crush on her. [ICYDK]

• Coney Island perfume smells like the bearded lady! Mmmmmm. [Jossip]

• Ryan Phillippe and Deacon. Clergy names for babies are odd. [PopSugar]

It's not everyday that anyone has anything negative to say about Uma Thurman. I attribute about 40% of this to the fact that everyone is terrified of her after seeing Kill Bill. Otherwise, eh, there's just not all that much to say. Not today, however, because not even Ms. Uma Thurman is impervious to the wrath of yoga-induced foot odor. The New York Daily News reports:

A crowd of civilians and a sprinkling of celebrities attended Wednesday night's opening of the Jivamukti Yoga School in Union Square, and the vast second-floor space was tightly packed, very warm and, as the night went on, increasingly pungent.

Everybody - even the paparazzi - was required to take their shoes off, exposing the toes of Uma Thurman, Russell Simmons, Elizabeth Berkley and Matthew Modine.

Sting sat in a lotus position strumming a sitar - background music for his wife, Trudie Styler's, lengthy ode to yoga while their audience of 500-plus enthusiasts listened and perspired.

Okay, sick. I'm not sure what's worse: considering what sort of possible foot fungus Russell Simmons has contracted from Kimora or picturing Matthew Modine in the Downward Dog position.

Either way, I'm sure Uma's feet were only a victim to the anonymous crime of group odor–there's no way you can blame her when there's a shoeless Sting in the vicinity.
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