She's still just a teenager, but it looks like 19-year-old pop star Avril Lavigne has decided it's time to settle down. According to reports, the My Happy Ending singer hopes to live happily ever with boyfriend Deryck Whibley, to whom she's just become engaged.
The 24-year-old front man of punk band Sum 41, who has in the past been linked to Paris Hilton, is said to have popped the question over the weekend. And Avril, a Canadian music star just like her beau, was snapped showing off her engagement ring to a pal not too long afterward.
It is said the couple's families have advised them to have a long engagement because of Avril's age. "They know they're young, but Avril has been completely swept off her feet," said a family friend. In the meantime, the two have already begun to prepare for their new life together, buying a multi-million dollar Santa Monica home to share.
In the past, the self-described "tough chick and hopeless romantic" has always denied there is anything more than friendship between herself and the rambunctious rocker. "The world thinks that me and Deryck are together," she said in January 2003, adding: "(We're) sort of friends, we hang out. But anytime we hang out I either get in a fight with somebody or end up in a tabloid. Something happens every time." |
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