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LOS ANGELES, California (X17online) - Canadian singer Avril Lavigne has just signed a deal with Procter & Gamble to launch her own perfume, according to Women's Wear Daily.

Lavigne said she is very pleased "to be working with Procter & Gamble on releasing my first fragrance. Creating this fragrance is a fun process and I am looking forward to sharing it with everyone."

Heike Hindenlang, the global marketing director for Procter & Gamble Prestige Products, said, "Young teenage girls really aspire to Avril and love everything about her...We think we can reach out to new consumers with her scents."

Lavigne's perfume should be available by mid-2009.

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LOS ANGELES, California (X17online) - Avril Lavigne is the latest superstar to be added to the long list of guest celebrity judges for the ninth season of FOX's hit reality competition American Idol.

Lavigne, along with pop phenom Katy Perry will each spend one day critiquing aspiring singers when the show films its callback audition episode in Los Angeles, according to Entertainment Weekly.

Other guest judges scheduled to appear on the show this season include Victoria Beckham, Mary J. Blige, Neil Patrick Harris, Shania Twain, Kristin Chenoweth, and Joe Jonas.

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LOS ANGELES, California (X17online) - After months of speculation, Avril Lavigne is finally moving on from her life with estranged husband Deryck Whibley.

Us reports that the Canadian punk/pop princess had kicked her husband of three years, Sum 41 singer Deryck Whibley out of the 9.5 million dollar house they share in Los Angeles.

“She dumped him and told him she was leaving him. She wants to move on," a source told the mag. “Divorce papers will be filed any day now."

Although this news is hardly surprising, neither of the couple's reps would comment.

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