There, now that the headline has got your attention... Channel 4 have asked me to invite suggestions from my blogreaders for a family to take part in their next series of WIFE SWAP. They want a family where the mother has firm political beliefs (whatever they may be) and this informs the way she lives her life, and runs her household. They want a normal family - this is not the celebrity series. If you have a suggestion perhaps you can email it to me and I will pass it on.
Tuesday, December 19, 2006
Politicians in Wife Swapping Shocker!
There, now that the headline has got your attention... Channel 4 have asked me to invite suggestions from my blogreaders for a family to take part in their next series of WIFE SWAP. They want a family where the mother has firm political beliefs (whatever they may be) and this informs the way she lives her life, and runs her household. They want a normal family - this is not the celebrity series. If you have a suggestion perhaps you can email it to me and I will pass it on.
Hmmm...for more amusement, surely we can come up with some interesting examples from the ranks of the more famous people that all readers would know ?
ReplyDeleteWhat about Neil and Christine Hamilton swapping with Lembit and Cheeky for a week - now THAT I would pay to see...
What about getting Margaret Beckett spending a caravan holiday with that other military expert Geoff 'Buff'Hoon...
ReplyDeleteMr & Mrs Cherie Booth perhaps?
ReplyDeleteJohn and Pauline Prescott would I'm sure appreciate a break from each other. As Tessa Jowell appears to have temporarily mislaid her husband, can I suggest the Prescotts swap with Jack Dromey, 'Treasurer' of the party and Harriet Harman - feminist and Blair Babe extrordinaire.
ReplyDeleteI'm not sure which would be funnier, Harriet trying to spurn Prezza's advances, or Jack Dromey having a barney with Mrs P when he discovers how much of his money she's been spending.
Go on, ITV - you know you want to.
Surely the ultimate 'wife swap' would be Charles and Camilla having to pick up the pieces of the detritus left in Number 10 with all that Tony & Cherie have been through.
ReplyDeleteWhat about Patricia 'Let me FINISH' Hewitt being parachuted into the life of Boris 'let it all hang out' Johnson - I can't see it being too long before toys would be getting thrown out of the pram...
ReplyDeleteFailing that I'm sure she could put the famously cigar-loving Gorgeous George Galloway on the right track..
It is a crime that Anne Widdecombe is not eligible for this sort of event, as she is not married, so far as I'm aware.
ReplyDeleteI'm sure she wouldn't be backward in coming forward with advice for Mr Opik.
Please can I suggest Lord and Lady Archer, on the basis that only they could consider doing a swap with Mr & Mrs Mark Oaten, having also had to endure some dishonesty and a troubled home life of their own in recent years.
ReplyDeleteGwyneth Dunwoody would certainly liven up Ming Campbell's life for a week or two...
ReplyDeleteEdwina Currie may, like certain jurors , be excluded from future call-up by dint of past service.
ReplyDeleteWhich no doubt would be a great relief if the 'Beast of Bolsover' were free..
Well thats you bolloxed Iain )+:
ReplyDeleteI wouldn't swap my dog for a wife.
ReplyDeleteBTW, Iain, I sued the Prison Service for a breach of contract over its failure to honour a 25p off coupon on a box of Alpen. It cost the department £10,000 to defend, and they lost. It led to the privatisation of the prison shop, because prison officers refused to run it unless they were allowed to continue with their fiddles, and Aramark was awarded the contract. They now run kitchens, education and hospitals within prisons.
They have approached me directly, whether because I am a councillor or a Party Officer I don't know....
ReplyDeletemy family were truly appalled, the thought of inflicting me on anyone else's family would not be fair!
Mr and Mrs Dennis Skinner?
ReplyDeleteIain, they did this a while ago. The wife in particular was a Tory supporter and campaigner.
ReplyDeleteUnfortunately, every other word she came out with was C**t. She was a chavette that made you just cringe.
Those precision tiny Israeli planes that can blow you out of a wheel chair came to mind. I hope they get a nu-lab one this time.
Jailhouse - Well done! Here’s cheers to restoring the clever dumb balance. At least until TB opens his gob again.
I will swap Diana Johnson MP (my dog beat up her dog in Pearson Park) and hubby, for a pint of lager and a packet of crisps please.
ReplyDeleteteri: Thank you.
The Blairs and a dysfunctional family living on benefits on some sink hole estate in the Midlands (not Liverpool, Cherry would feel too much at home).
ReplyDeleteOr how about the Blairs and a large, devout muslim family from Southall?
I know, I have a warped and twisted mind - it's what makes me so interesting ;-)
Mr & Mrs Andrew Marr...........together with Mr & Mrs Greg Barker
ReplyDeleteor Jack Dromey with Nicholas and Ann Winterton
Please can I suggest Lord and Lady Archer, on the basis that only they could consider doing a swap with Mr & Mrs Mark Oaten
ReplyDeleteFunny and I thought Fragrant Mary was more an analogue to Simon Hughes
I hope my husband has not read this!
ReplyDeleteFrom a wife with "strong political views" (and whose husband enjoys 'wife swap' - the programme not the actualite).
I think wife-swapping is great... I got a superb new set of golf clubs in exchange for mine!
ReplyDeletePogo,
ReplyDeleteAnd Lembit swapped his 40 year old for two twenty year olds.
Is there a market one has to go to or can you arrange everything through e-bay?
RM