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Who Replaced Avril Lavigne?
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“I know what you’re thinking – she’s definitely dead.” Very funny comedian Joanne McNally has become obsessed with the internet’s wild decade-long conspiracy that Avril Lavigne was replaced by a doppelganger because she either died or retired – so she’s set up an office in her “current” boyfriend’s home and started this investigation. She’s not even a Lavigne fan, which only adds to the hilarity of her Stacey Dooley-like ambitions. Hollie Richardson
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