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?