Ashlee Simpson's lesbian plot axed

Ashlee Simpson has been banned from playing a lesbian in her upcoming movie debut.

The singer-turned-actress was due to star as a gay character in the romantic comedy Wannabe but her unimpressed manager-father Joe Simpson ordered a change in the scripts.

"I changed it. It doesn't work for her to be gay the first thing out," Joe told the New York Post. "She said, 'But it's cool, it's edgy, it's different,' and of course the filmmakers were like, 'It's cool for a woman to be a lesbian.'"

He added: "She's going to be a huge movie star. She's like Meg Ryan or Cameron Diaz, with probably more depth. When we're done, she'll play it all."