Joe the Plumber hires PR firm as celebrity grows

LIKE all good celebrities, Joe the Plumber has hired a publicity team.

The Press Office in Nashville, where clients include The Beach Boys and rockers Grand Funk Railroad, will help him handle the flood of interview appearance requests that have poured in since he was mentioned during a presidential debate and became a household name.

“It’s like any other celebrity who is in the public eye,” said Jim Della Croce, who owns the agency. “There needs to be someone acting as a clearinghouse and interpreting the opportunities and coordinating the media requests, and he truly is being inundated.”