Who Replaced Avril Lavigne? 3. Complicated
Joanne McNally Investigates
BBC
4.3 • 598 Ratings
🗓️ 20 March 2024
⏱️ 32 minutes
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Summary
Avril’s career hit something of a bump in the road. At one point she appeared to fall off the radar completely, all while the rumours about her being replaced were swirling. Can a fake death story literally kill your career? One man who knows is Dave Benson Phillips. He was a children’s TV presenter, on a path to great things. Until… he died. The TV offers dried up. His theatre tour got canceled. The impact on his life was immense. And Dave’s not the only one. Joanne hears about death rumours for Paul McCartney, Miley Cyrus…the list is endless. What can this tell us about the Avril theory?
Who Replaced Avril Lavigne? Joanne McNally Investigates is a 6-part series produced by What’s The Story Sounds – for BBC Sounds and CBC.
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| 0:00.0 | From BBC Sounds and CBC Podcasts. |
| 0:05.5 | I like to swear a lot. |
| 0:08.8 | The following podcast is presented by me, |
| 0:11.1 | therefore there will be swearing. |
| 0:13.5 | There will be swear words and there will be bot language, |
| 0:15.7 | probably regularly. |
| 0:17.0 | If that sort of thing isn't for you, |
| 0:18.6 | consider yourself warned. |
| 0:20.7 | My search to find Aver Levine's doppelganger had kept me up for nights, loads of them. |
| 0:26.8 | I've been going deep on Instagram, I'd trawled Facebook, I've been scroll through LinkedIn, |
| 0:32.1 | all in the hope of finding the Melissa Vandela. |
| 0:35.5 | And I did find quite a few people with the name. |
| 0:38.7 | The most promising is now a graphic designer in Toronto, |
| 0:42.1 | but there was also a Melissa Vandala from Finland, |
| 0:45.7 | Melissa Vandala from Georgia, |
| 0:47.5 | and a Melissa Vandala from Thailand. |
| 0:50.1 | I fired off a load of messages. |
| 0:52.8 | I got zero responses, a couple of blocks on Insta and an overwhelming feeling of Melissa fatigue. |
| 0:59.5 | I even put her name through an anagram solver. |
| 1:02.2 | Perhaps the name was another clue. |
| 1:04.4 | What did I get? |
| 1:05.6 | Well, if you just put in Melissa, you get a smiles. |
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