WIFE SWAP: Channel 4, 8th January 2007
Another chance to see “obedient wife” Bonnie trade places with modern wife Derenda for two weeks. Bonnie lives with her husband Pete and son Zac in Peterborough, and has a particular reason for doing Wife Swap .
She wants to prove that her philosophy works - she’s a “mindful” wife. Pete is the absolute boss, and that’s how Bonnie likes it. “Everything I do is to please him,” she says, but that doesn’t just mean cleaning the house to his exacting standards, or cooking whatever he might want to eat; it’s about “treating him as a mix of the Prime Minister and the Divine.” Meanwhile, in Doncaster, Derenda has a very different view of men. As far as she’s concerned they are there for money and sex. After working shifts down a coal mine, her partner Alani comes home to do all the cooking and most of the cleaning for her and the four kids.
Can she learn to be a mindful wife and take pride in pleasing her new husband? And will Bonnie be able to show Alani the difference that having an obedient wife will make to his marriage?

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