Joe Jonas: Britney tour a childhood dream

Joe Jonas says that when he joins the Britney Spears "Femme Fatale" tour Friday at the Izod Center in East Rutherford, N.J., he's fulfilling a childhood fantasy.

"It's a dream come true," Jonas, 21, said in People magazine Thursday. "She was the first girl I ever had a poster on my wall of, and her album was the first CD I ever bought. It's so funny to think I had that on my wall and here I am about to perform with her."

Jonas, who will soon release the solo album "Fast Life," his first apart from the Jonas Brothers, will skip Spears' subsequent North American shows, which finish up on Aug. 25. Then he'll rejoin the tour as the opening act on its European leg, where he's set to open nine shows, in Sweden, Germany, the Netherlands, France, Ireland and the UK. After that leg ends in November, Spears heads next to South America.

Jonas first met the pop star at the MTV Video Music Awards a few years ago. "She's a very sweet lady," he told People.

And after playing small recent solo gigs in Chicago, New York and elsewhere, Jonas said he's "really looking forward to being part of this," referring to the Femme Fatale extravaganza, which hit Nassau Coliseum earlier this week. "I'll be playing more music than I have the past few times I've performed live so far. It's going to be really fun to perform some of my music from the album," scheduled to drop on Oct. 11.

And of course, both Jonas and Spears share a strong connection to the Disney Channel: He with his brothers' shows and movies, and she as a Mouseketeer on "The Mickey Mouse Club" in the early 1990s.