Oddly, given Avril Lavigne's "anarchic" image, the pouting blonde axe-wielder fostered dreams of being a cop when growing up in rural Canada, but she also loved skateboarding and had tasted the dark side – fame – via singing gigs at her local church.
The record companies dangled a carrot, the perfect band was put together, and before her 18th birthday Avril Lavigne was an international singing sensation and making fans of "true metal" roar with rage. Regrettably married but rumoured to be the subject of an as-yet-to-be-released sex tape, Avril is one of the few people said to have made good money out of YouTube after her management secured a deal worth around 2c per play of her hit single Girlfriend. Fast-forward one hundred million plays, and that's $2m in the bank.
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