Best podcasts of the week: The wannabe sleuths who believe Avril Lavigne was ‘replaced’ by an imposter
by Hollie Richardson, Hannah Verdier and Rachel Aroes from Technology | The Guardian on (#6K5EZ)
In this week's newsletter: Comedian Joanne McNally explores one of the most bizarre celebrity conspiracy theories in a new BBC series. Plus: five of the best books podcasts
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Who Replaced Avril Lavigne?
BBC Sounds, episodes weekly
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