Introducing... Who Replaced Avril Lavigne?
Joanne McNally Investigates
BBC
4.3 • 598 Ratings
🗓️ 26 February 2024
⏱️ 2 minutes
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Summary
There’s a story going around, that punk-pop sensation Avril Lavigne ISN’T who you think she is. That she was replaced at the start of her career by a look a-like. It’s an internet conspiracy theory which has been eating comedian Joanne McNally ALIVE, and she’s going to do something about it. In this 6-part series, Joanne immerses herself in a mind-bending world of fake celebrity deaths, doppelgangers, conspiracies in an effort to understand how this rumour started, and if there’s any truth to it.
Who Replaced Avril Lavigne? Joanne McNally Investigates is produced by What’s The Story Sounds – for BBC Sounds and CBC.
Coming March 6, 2024.
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| 0:00.0 | Let's take a journey back to 2003. |
| 0:04.7 | A year when Canadian teen sensation, Aver Levine, was topping the charts and turned the music industry upside down. |
| 0:13.0 | Making her first ever television performance, coming to you live for him to be sure a thing. |
| 0:17.0 | It's called Complicated. It's five years. Averloven. |
| 0:21.3 | But what if I told you that the Avrilavine we know and love might not be the same Avro? |
| 0:29.9 | Apparently she died in 2003 and they cloned her. |
| 0:33.3 | She died years and years ago and replaced her just after the second album, I think it was. |
| 0:38.4 | What? |
| 0:40.5 | Well, the internet is buzzing like an old fridge with wild rumours, from body doubles to questions about her very existence. |
| 0:49.0 | Avril Levine is dead and has been dead since 2003. |
| 0:53.8 | That Avril died |
| 0:55.3 | and was replaced by an Avril |
| 0:57.7 | lookalike. The current Avril, |
| 0:59.8 | the current one you're seeing, is allegedly |
| 1:02.1 | a clone named |
| 1:04.1 | Melissa. |
| 1:05.9 | I know what you're thinking. Impossible, |
| 1:08.5 | right? Well, not so fast. |
| 1:13.7 | I think this story could be true. I want this story to be true. The name Melissa is written on her hand. This is a cry for help. |
| 1:20.8 | If that was her, why would she do that? So who am I? Well, my name is Joanne McNally. I'm a comedian. |
| 1:27.0 | I tell jokes of an evening. It also means I have a lot of errors to kill during the day, time to consume and dissect several conspiracy theories, and I have a new personal favourite. Has Avivine died and be replaced by a goddamn look-alike? It seems crazy to me that someone from this small town can like do something like |
| 1:44.7 | that, you know? Is this, you're not, are you Averill's father? Like, she's definitely, this isn't her |
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