Pierre Bouvier

Pierre Charles Bouvier (born 9 May 1979) is a French Canadian musician, who is best known as the lead singer for pop punk band Simple Plan. He is also the younger brother of cancer survivor and actor Jay Bouvier. He also hosted a show on MTV called Damage Control, which has since ended its run as originally planned.

Biography

Before and partly during his musical career, Bouvier worked as a cook in a restaurant called St-Hubert in his hometown of Montreal. At age of 13, he founded the punk rock band Reset with his schoolmate Chuck Comeau, in which he was the lead singer and bassist. Reset did not only have Bouvier and Comeau, they also had Jean-Sébastien Boileau and Adrian White. Bouvier, not fully enjoying his life with Reset left the band and Comeau behind. Bouvier met up with old school pal Jeff Stinco at a Reset concert he was attending. Bouvier then talked to Stinco about creating Simple Plan. Stinco agreed and they were joined by Sebastien Lefebvre and later Chuck Comeau, leaving at his turn Reset. In live performance, he sometimes plays the guitar (electric and acoustic) for certain songs.

Role Model Clothing

He is co-owner of Role Model Clothing, along with Chuck Comeau and Simple Plan's webmaster, photographer, and videographer Patrick Langlois.

Role Model Clothing is a clothing line owned by Bouvier, Patrick Langlois and Chuck Comeau (who are often seen wearing the shirts on stage and in the band's music videos). The line mostly markets shirts, which invariably include the words "ROLE MODEL" in the design. Erik Chandler, from the band Bowling for Soup, is often seen wearing Role Model shirts.

Damage Control

Damage Control was a reality television series hosted by Bouvier that first aired on MTV on March 6, 2005. On Damage Control, parents would tell their teenage son or daughter that they would be going away over the weekend, but in actuality, they are just a few houses down monitoring them with Bouvier via hidden cameras and microphones. The teenager would be placed in awkward situations, in which he/she must make decisions. Parents can earn money if they can guess what their teenager will do, and after the parents come back (always with too little time for the teenager to conceal what has occurred), the teenager, still unaware of the filming, can earn money by confessing. Two seasons were filmed before any episodes aired, and no more were planned or filmed, due to the likelihood that once the episodes aired, potential subjects would quickly catch on to what was going on.
He attended College Beaubois, a high school in Montreal along with other band members Sébastien Lefebvre, Jeff Stinco and Chuck Comeau. Bouvier also has a brother, Jay Bouvier. "Save You," one of the songs on the album Simple Plan, was written for Bouvier's brother, a cancer survivor.