I appreciate they have to show extremes in order to get a story but the way it was edited was not realistic. I wanna be fat and happy," said that, while he enjoyed his experience on the show and was doing "his own thing," producers still manipulated contestants with how they asked questions. If I ask you the same question in 20 different ways, I will eventually get what I'm looking for. That's probably one aspect in which they tried to make it more dramatic.
Alicia Guastaferro, who appeared on Wife Swap in as the year-old daughter of one of the couples, sued the show in for allegedly causing her so much emotional distress due to their inaccurate portrayal of her that she had to drop out of high school and enroll in a special program.
Guastaferro, a former pageant queen, was depicted as a spoiled brat on the show. She became famous with the show's fans for using phrases like "I am the most popular girl in school," and "I do feel sorry for people that are not gorgeous people. According to Guastaferro, none of this was actually true — rather, the show told her to play up the spoiled brat persona and fed her lines to say for the camera. She said that this led to "incessant verbal and physical assaults from her peers," and that the "ridicule, mockery and derision" made her drop out.
The lawsuit alleged that the show "purposefully, intentionally and knowingly caused severe emotional and psychological harm to a fragile year-old" for their own financial gain.
The suit was settled under undisclosed terms in Guastaferro later found herself in the news again after being charged with prostitution. At the beginning of each episode, wives craft a manual they leave for their replacement explaining the rules of the household.
The replacement wife has to follow the manual for their first week in the house, often to much chagrin. However, the daughter of one former contestant says that the wives don't actually make the rules; producers do. Ashley Fine, who appeared on Wife Swap as a year-old in her mom, a professional organizer, swapped with a pirate gave one example of the producers changing and setting the rules, saying producers wanted a rule to be that the other family's dog, which was flea-ridden and not well taken care of, has to stay in a tiny cage.
This wasn't one of the family's real rules, and, when Ashley's mother refused and threatened to quit the show over it, producers dropped it. Nancy Cedarquist also said in an interview with The New York Times that the manual was written by a producer off-camera. Multiple Linkedin profiles and resumes from people who have worked on the show list writing the household manual in their duties, including former Wife Swap associate producer Darren Coyle and former Celebrity Wife Swap producer Sean Hetherington.
Former Wife Swap producer Zack Wozniak writes on his Linkedin page that he penned the manuals after a three-day interview with the family. Nancy Cedarquist said the reality TV show left out many details that didn't fit with the way they wanted to portray her family. Vincent Edwards Performed by Maxine Nightingale. User reviews 12 Review. Top review. Recklessly irresponsible but still better than its sleazy FOX rip-offs.
Fortunately, it is also just one of those shows where you just have to describe the premise and the reason why becomes pretty clear. Which makes it easy on me. It is yet another network remake of a British reality series. Once again the uncreative Americans are stealing a brilliant idea from the Brits.
A little sarcasm there. No, "Wife Swap" isn't about free love and key parties. In it two families from completely opposite sides of the tracks swap the matriarch of their households and spend a week experiencing life through the eyes and living in the home of someone else. Someone that they would never come into contact with in their own lives.
It's not a bad idea actually, particularly as a media answer to the media contrived notion that America is sharply polarized and that people only ensconce themselves in opinions that agree with their own. In reality though, it is shows like this that have really created that idea in the first place.
Either that or it feels the swaps have to be so extreme that we, the audience out in the hinterlands, won't recognize it if it isn't spelled out in stark black and white for us. Of course, they're real, but the show is wildly misrepresented. As an unintended consequence to that premise, everybody here is a fanatic that lives at the margin of whatever their belief system is.
On one hand we have the homophobic, fanatical Christians, boring, on the other hand we have the obnoxious deadbeat liberal who thinks "the U.
I particularly like a family who drinks coffee through a straw because there is a chance it will not stain their teeth. Episode after episode appears to come down to the same suspicious broad conclusion in the end: the sloppy family is the one that is having fun and has found happiness; meanwhile the neat, organized family is too stifled, stressed, repressed and not having any fun. Where on "The Bachelor" the catch phrase has become that all the women say "I can really see myself with him" after a few minutes on the show, the catch phrase deserving of parody on "Wife Swap" goes something like: "I can't imagine how a house this clean can have any love in it".
At the end of the period the neat mother learns the all-valuable lesson of "loosening up" where the piggish family just goes back to roll in the mud. After abiding by the showrunners' wishes, Guastaffero claimed she later faced "verbal and physical assaults from her peers," which, in turn, led her to transferring high schools and suing the show.
The guest star told Radar Online that she couldn't handle the "ridicule, mockery and derision" she received after appearing on "Wife Swap.
One way "Wife Swap" likes to keep their episodes fun and entertaining for their viewers is by implementing rule changes halfway through. However, these rule changes are reportedly not actually how they appear on your screen at home. On TV, it looks as if the new wives come up with a list of rules that they believe the family they're sent to should implement and follow. To help keep things exciting, the rules are typically the opposite of the ones that were originally set in place.
However, to ensure that the rule changes are interesting, the producers are reportedly the people who write them. Although we have uncovered many secrets about "Wife Swap," this one may just take the cake. Not every couple who has made an appearance on "Wife Swap" was actually a couple in the real world.
For example, one could look at rapper Coolio — by the way, whatever happened to Coolio? Not long after their episode was released to the public, rumors began to spread that Mimi and Coolio were no longer dating. The tabloids stated they broke up due to Coolio's extreme behavior on the show, which could lead fans to thinking "Wife Swap" was at fault for their breakup.
However, the rapper told the Daily Record that the tabloids didn't have it right, as he and Mimi were apparently never actually a real-life couple. Instead, Coolio claimed the producers made it up for entertainment purposes. It was all a [setup]. I am nothing like that. I'm not even with Mimi. I never was. She's a friend of mine," he said.
I don't want to do that stuff again. Stephen Fowler, who appeared on "Wife Swap" in , regrets his decision to be on the show after being nicknamed the "worst husband in the world," according to The Noe Valley Voice.
During the show, Fowler was asked by producers to play an over-the-top, uptight, hard-to-love type husband. Not long after the show aired, Fowler, who must have played this role well, began to receive threatening phone calls and social media messages. Those who watched the episode were angry at Fowler for the way he behaved on the show, and, due to the outcry from the public, Fowler reportedly ended up losing his job.
I was playing a character. I was playing a role I overreacted. But now no longer restrained, Fowler said, "I do regret going on the show," adding, "I wouldn't wish that on my worst enemy. One guest star who appeared on "Celebrity Wife Swap," Sean Lowe, can be recognized for his appearance on another hit series, " The Bachelor. After his episode aired, Sean was upset with how the producers portrayed him. In his episode, the woman who traded places with Catherine, Molly, woke up to a to-do list that Sean expected her to get done.
Items on the list requested she clean the kitchen and iron his socks, as reported by People. Fans of "The Bachelor" were angry with Sean and his list of demands.
So much so that Sean decided to come forward and reveal that the to-do list wasn't something he had actually created. He tweeted that Catherine would "scratch my eyes out" if he ever gave her a to-do list. Not long after his tweet, Sean also took to Instagram , stating, "Yeah The new wives are given these manuals before they even meet the families, so it's the perfect avenue to help create these false first impressions. A lot of editing goes into making TV shows.
If they showed all the content they filmed, each episode would take hours to watch and would make it be way more different. A clever technique that is used during development is for the showrunners to leave out certain information, not only to help make the families personas more convincing but also in some cases to change the dynamic of the families entirely.
One perfect example of this was in an episode where the family was portrayed to live secluded from the world in a treehouse. According to East Bay Times , they made it apparent that the father was the only one allowed to venture in to town to get the supplies needed for their survival. Turns out that was not the case at all, as the mother had a full-time job and all the kids even attended the local public school.
Anna Courtenay, a TV presenter in the U. Courtenay had a familiarity with the British reality TV business and knew there would be some catch to her being on the show, however, she had no idea what the producers had planned for her. In the episode, Anna was sent to live with an environment-friendly family who lived on a tugboat without electricity or running water. To her horror, she found out that the family shared one towel between every family member.
When the time came for her to implement her own rules, she asked for cleaning supplies and was only given air freshener, which conflicted with the family's rules entirely. If it hadn't been for the contract she had signed and the likelihood of losing her compensation, she would have walked away from production. Wife Swap has had its fair share of scandals.
One of the highlights of these created a lot of controversy for the show when one of the wives was replaced with a man, making both of the husbands appear to be in a same-sex relationship. Instead of swapping with a heterosexual couple, the person taking the place of his wife was a gay man.
Bedford claimed he was threatened by producers to go along with the surprise or there would be financial damages. However, Wife Swap notes that the wife swapped could be male or female, making Bedford's suit invalid.
One way Wife Swap likes to shake things up is by implementing rule changes during the episode. As it turns out, rule changes are another scam. The way it works on air is that about a week in, the new wives are told that they can add their own rules to the household that their new families must adhere to. To create as much controversy as possible, the rules the new wives add to the house are generally opposites of the ones already in place. However, in the AMA by MrsAshKing , it looks like the rules are actually created by the producers in an effort to spike tensions and create some entertaining drama for the viewers.
Some examples of these rule changes would be 'no eating meat' in a family that is big into hunting or a strictly regimented schedule for a very laissez-faire family. Stephen Fowler is someone who was later given the nickname "the worst husband in America," according to No Valley Voice.
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