Avril Lavigne has explained how previous reports about her having shopped at baby boutiques in LA came about. The singer says that she and her husband, Sum41's Deryck Whibley, responded to constant rumours of a pregnancy by teaming up with Ashton Kutcher to trick the paps into thinking they were right as part of a stunt on the Hollywood prankster's new TV show, 'Pop Fiction'.
Lavigne apparently put on a fat suit and the two went baby shopping in Beverly Hills. She explains: "It's kind of like punking or spoofing the media. And it was their first episode and they asked us to do it and so we just kind of ran with the baby rumour. ['Pop Fiction' has] their camera crews embedded in the paparazzi, so we went on Robertson Boulevard for literally like 45 minutes, went to two baby stores, Baby Kitson and Lisa Kline Kids, and then it was everywhere. It was confirmed that I was pregnant. It was crazy. And the show is great because it shows the viewer how out of control the rumours are, how quickly things get spread and it's funny".
She continued: "We're just having good fun, we're getting [the media] back and obviously not in a mean way, we're just showing you guys what it's like and how out of control the rumours can be. But I thought it was a lot of fun and funny".
I should point out that although CMU reported on these rumours, we treated them with much scepticism, because we're very clever.
Elsewhere in Lavigne news, the singer's hit single 'Girlfriend' has inspired a 92-page comic book entitled 'Avril Lavigne's Girlfriend: Sleight Of Hand And Heart'. It tells the tale of Dylan, his girlfriend Layla and misfit Marta who knows about Layla's dark side. It's on sale at Lavigne's gigs, as well as at http://www.avrilmerch.com.