Whilst filming for an upcoming episode of celebrity Wife Swap for Channel 4, 80’s pop star Sinitta gained ten pounds in weight due to the diet and lifestyle of Coronation Street actor, Bruce Jones.

As part of the show Sinitta had tro live with Bruce for a week, and he had her eating fish and chips and regularly hitting the pub.

“They are very different people and it wasn’t easy for her,” a source told the Sunday Mirror. “She told him to get a grip on his drinking. He is just like Les Battersby. He took her down the pub and had her eating fish and chips and drinking Guinness. Now she is on a strict detox diet.” Read more & comment »

Reports have emerged today, suggesting that former Coronation Street actor, Bruce Jones and 80’s pop sensation Sinitta have become the latest celebs to sign up for Channel 4’s Wife Swap.

“Les Battersby and Sinitta may seem like a match made in hell but we reckon it will be telly heaven,” a source told The Daily Star.

“Bruce is keen to do this. He feels people need to see the real him. He is aware that plenty of people think of him as Les Battersby.”

Former page three girl Sam Fox has admitted to feeling broody after taking part in Channel 4 TV show, Wife Swap.

In the show Sam moves in with Comedian, Freedie Starr and helps to care for his baby daughter, Ebony and his two older step children. Her partner Myra lived with Freddie’s wife Donna.

Sam told The Sun: “I’ve always had a maternal instinct. It’s something I’ve always thought about, babies, and that I’d always want a baby.”

Sam admitted that she and her lover and manager Myra Stratton, 53, had been thinking about having children for a while.

She added: “It’ something Myra and I have spoken about, but as for when, and how, and if, it’s something really personal to us. But I know I’d make a good mummy. Read more & comment »

Wife Swap , the BAFTA-award winning hit series, is back starting with a celebrity swap. Notorious comedian Freddie Starr and his wife and manager Donna swap places with Page 3 pin-up Sam Fox and her partner and manager of eight years, Myra Stratton.

Freddie Starr captivated the nation in the 70s and 80s with his zany humour. After becoming infamous for his hell-raising hamster eating exploits, Freddie has now settled down to a traditional life with his third wife Donna. While Freddie gigs, Donna is in control of the home and three children, sleeping for only a few hours each night as she tries to fit in her endless chores. Freddie firmly believes that the working man needs to be looked after, and his doting wife Donna is happy to oblige. Read more & comment »

Jess and Lou Pearson-Faith are a lesbian couple from Essex. They live in a council flat with Jess’s three children from a previous marriage. With no full-time jobs, they are reliant on benefits. Read more & comment »

Channel 4 show Wife Swap is to ramp up the controversy by including their first ever gay couple.

The swap will take place between a homophobic farmer and his wife, and a lesbian couple.

A show source said: “The farmer is very prejudiced, and initially he’s horrified living with the lesbian.

“His wife is none too happy either. But it’s interesting to see what happens . . . it’s not what you’d expect.”

Should be good telly!

It’s the penultimate episode of the series and this week there’s an extraordinary swap between Melissa from Wiltshire and Noelie from Doncaster, where viewers will find out what happens when a Wife Swap goes wrong. Noelie Klineberg is the doting partner of millionaire Robin Goforth. They’ve been together for five years and they live on the outskirts of Doncaster with Nolie’s 17-year-old son Danny and Robin’s 16 year-old-son Adam. Appearances are important in the Klineberg household, and Noelie keeps the house and herself in perfect condition and is accustomed to a glamorous lifestyle. On top of all of that, Noelie also takes care of Robin’s every need from running his bath to ironing his boxer shorts, while Robin runs a string of businesses from petrol stations to used cars. Read more & comment »

It’s a fiery swap as housewife Tina Griffiths from Basingstoke and Labour party councillor Julie Young from Colchester trade places for 10 days. Julie Young and her teetotal husband Tim are both Labour party councillors, which means politics is top of the family agenda. As a socialist couple they spend more of their time helping others than spending time with their family. Young family life is constantly interrupted by their constituents who need their help, which means the needs of 10-year-old Kier, 14-year-old Matilda and 16-year-old Harriet often end up coming second. Read more & comment »

It’s an explosive Wife Swap this week as Alison from Eastbourne and Michelle from Northampton trade places - and parenting styles. Alison Henry has one priority in life: her five children. She cooks, cleans and runs around after them all day, every day. Alison believes her role is to make life as fun and comfortable as possible for her children, so the household is run according to the kids’ timetable. Alison doesn’t like rules or forcing her kids to do anything they don’t want to do, so they have no set bedtime, leading to post-midnight running around; and even when they eventually go to bed they rarely stay there. Read more & comment »

The award-winning Wife Swap continues with the Ahmed family, a strict Pakistani Muslim family who pray five times a day and choose to wear the hijab (headscarf). The backbone of their family philosophy is based on Islamic principles and their three teenage children are well-mannered, work hard and are very respectful of their parent’s wishes. Supermum Nuzhat works full time, studies, manages all the cooking and household chores, and keeps a keen eye on what her children are doing.

Deborah Escott works as an admin director for a theatre company and is the sole breadwinner in her liberal family. Husband Andy is a musician and house husband who looks after their three-year-old daughter Emily and 16-year-old Becky, Debs’s daughter from a previous relationship. Becky has recently come out as a lesbian. Will these two very different mums ever see eye to eye? How will husband Shakil react when Deborah arranges for his two teenage daughters to attend a live music gig and how does Nuzhat deal with a rebellious teenage daughter whose sexuality is a direct challenge to her religious beliefs?

Sunday 15th April Channel 4 8PM

Wife Swap , the BAFTA-award-winning hit show, returns with a new series. Wheelchair user Ruth, an active and health conscious mum from Shropshire, swaps places with Sue, an armchair loving mother of four from Kent. At 17, Ruth was involved in an accident that left her a paraplegic. Despite this she is an incredibly active mum of two who doesn’t let anything stop her from living life to the max. She is extremely passionate about healthy eating, limits sugar and salt in her house and has strict control over what her well-mannered children do and don’t eat.

Despite a demanding job working with adults with learning difficulties, Sue ‘runs’ her household from her favourite armchair in front of the TV while her four daughters bicker around her. At mealtimes the kitchen turns into a fast food café. The freezer is packed with pizzas and chips and there’s always an endless supply of crisps, chocolate and biscuits. How will Sue’s family react to their new ‘Mum’, when Ruth bins the junk and enforces a healthy eating regime? And when Sue introduces chocolates and sweets along with her new rules to the household, will Ruth’s children overdose on their sugar rush? Wife Swap: The Aftermath follows on E4, with Ruth and Sue meeting again after watching the show go out.

Channel 4, Sunday 8th April, 8PM

A couple who appear in this years series of Wife Swap have revealed that they like to Wife Swap in real life too.

The Sun reports:

Publican Steve Tyler and his stripper partner Tori Martin meet up with other couples for swingers’ nights where “anything goes”.

Bisexual blonde Tori — real name Justine — has also been filmed by common-law hubby Steve enjoying lesbian romps at wild sex parties.

Of course, their new partners, Andy and Paula Wroath, a straight laced couple of horse trainers, know nothing of their professions or history…you can imagine how that revelation went down!

You can catch up with the couples on Channel 4 on the April 22.

Wife Swap , the BAFTA-award winning hit series, is back with a celebrity swap. Debbie McGee, wife of magician and entertainer-extraordinaire Paul Daniels, swaps places with outspoken radio presenter Vanessa Feltz.

Singer Ben Ofoedu and Vanessa are enjoying a whirlwind romance. Ben is ten years younger than Vanessa, and after four and a half months of dating he has just asked her to marry him. As Ben says to the reporters at one of the celebrity events they attend, “we’re celebrating love at the moment”. Mother of two Vanessa says she’s astonished by her new relationship. “Ben is the most extraordinary gentleman, and the fact that he noticed me is completely mind-boggling, it didn’t occur to me in a million years that he could fancy me.” Read more & comment »

In the second episode of Wife Swap , the award-winning hit series, female comic JoJo swaps with Dawn from Doncaster.

JoJo is the mother of three children by her ex-husband: Ruaridh (aged 13), Eilidh (aged eight) and Ciara (aged 11); and Fynn (aged two) by current partner Allan. She’s a straight-talking woman who boasts that she’s not a “motherly mum”. She prizes self-reliance and independence in her kids; in the mornings, for example, she stays in bed until 11:00am, while the three older children make their own breakfasts and packed lunches and get themselves off to school. She’s proud of her family, and her parenting style, which she refers to as “healthy neglect”.

JoJo boasts that she’s got too much of a life to spend it doing housework; in fact, the cleaning is done according to a rota where the children do more than their parents.

By contrast, Dawn believes that cleanliness is all-important: “seeing lovely bubbles swishing around in a washing machine is every woman’s dream.” Her two children, Lewis (aged 12) and Kirstie (aged 11) do nothing in the house, and neither does her current partner, Garry. He and Dawn have been together for six years, but Garry doesn’t lift a finger in the house, and only contributes financially in the rare event of him finding a few days’ work. But Dawn believes that “the role of a perfect woman is to keep a clean house, put a hot meal on the table and be a tart in the bedroom.”

How will JoJo cope with a cleaning routine which includes 15 hours of ironing a week, and a partner who spends every night out with his mates? What will Dawn think of JoJo’s messy home and her philosophy of “healthy neglect”? And how will Dawn’s new husband survive two weeks with the “most controlling” women he’s ever met?

In another episode from the award-winning hit series, laid-back Kelly and regimented Donna try to impose their own rules on households with markedly different attitudes. Kelly lives with her partner, Lee, and seven children. She doesn’t believe in routine or timetables; her children do what they like when they like. There are no bedtimes, and no homework. Lee doesn’t lift a finger round the house, even when he’s out of work.

Donna’s family runs a little differently. She lives with househusband Craig and two sons, and the household runs on routine. Donna will check her sons’ homework, make sure that they’ve done their chores, and guarantee that they eat properly. How will Kelly cope in a house where routine and structure are so important?

Can Donna get Lee to take responsibility and help out with the chores? And how will schoolteacher Donna cope in a house where seven children are allowed to run riot?

Wife Swap airs on E4 on 15th January 2007