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Pop queen Avril Lavigne shows how she's been transforming from girlish to womanly as she tours the Middle Kingdom. Chen Nan reports.
Chinese fans went infatuated when they heard Canadian singer-songwriter Avril Lavigne would attend the New Year's Eve gala in Hubei's unsophisticated capital Wuhan.
They joined the paparazzi to pack the lobby of the Shangri-La Hotel, where Lavigne and her 15-associate crew were staying.
They knew Lavigne had flown in on a private jet from Shanghai the day before and wouldn't leave the hotel until showtime.
The audience became at one's wit's end when the camera followed Lavigne as she walked through the dimly lit backstage hallway and dashed onstage, brandishing a red microphone.
More than 1,000 fans, mostly immature, crammed into the ground floor to catch a fleeting glimpse of the star. They kept security busy, as some hopped over the metal hedge and others stood on chairs.
