TV Guide: Wife Swap

Listing: Kraut/Hardin

Fri, 20 Nov 2009 14:00:00 -0500

Fri Nov 20 02:00 PM LIFE A shopaholic mom who spoils her kids and hosts in-home lingerie parties for a living trades places with a devoutly religious mom who homeschools her children and expects them to carry their weight in the family.

Listing: King/Reeves

Fri, 20 Nov 2009 13:00:00 -0500

Fri Nov 20 01:00 PM LIFE A penny-pincher trades places with a spendthrift who spoils her son and wants him to become a child star.

Listing: Bimonte/Hubbard

Fri, 20 Nov 2009 12:00:00 -0500

Fri Nov 20 12:00 PM LIFE A mom who believes in raising children without rules trades places with a mom who relies on structure, discipline and martial arts.

Listing: Roy/Maness

Wed, 18 Nov 2009 14:00:00 -0500

Wed Nov 18 02:00 PM LIFE A clean-freak mom who rules her family with an iron fist trades places with a construction-worker mom who lives in a messy home with six pets and no rules.

Listing: Lawson/Fuentes

Wed, 18 Nov 2009 13:00:00 -0500

Wed Nov 18 01:00 PM LIFE A career police detective in California trades places with a Maryland homemaker who believes in serving her husband's every need.

Listing: Stonerock/Finley

Wed, 18 Nov 2009 12:00:00 -0500

Wed Nov 18 12:00 PM LIFE An atheist trades places with a pastor's wife, who leaves her Bible-study group to spend two weeks with a devout disbeliever.

Listing: Johnson/Blackburn

Tue, 17 Nov 2009 14:00:00 -0500

Tue Nov 17 02:00 PM LIFE A military mom who helps run a fitness business trades places with an undisciplined mother whose 370-lb. husband hasn't unpacked their home-gym equipment.

Listing: Hodge/Kolpin

Tue, 17 Nov 2009 13:00:00 -0500

Tue Nov 17 01:00 PM LIFE A Kentucky hunting mom steps into the peaceful life of an animal activist in Arizona who only eats raw foods and is raising a vegetarian cat.

Listing: Lassell/Nazario

Tue, 17 Nov 2009 12:00:00 -0500

Tue Nov 17 12:00 PM LIFE A Manhattan mom switches with a Kentucky mother of five. While the lenient New Yorker tries to adjust to rural ranch life, the strict Kentuckian is exposed to big-city party life. The Kentucky mom insists on a modest dress code for the two Big Apple kids, and the Manhattan mother throws a party for the five ranch children.

Listing: Bailey/Downs

Mon, 16 Nov 2009 14:00:00 -0500

Mon Nov 16 02:00 PM LIFE A career-obsessed South Carolina mother of two switches with a Texas mom who's devoted to her seven home-schooled children. Roz Bailey sends the Texas kids to a classroom and allows the sheltered daughters to date. Meanwhile, Paula Downs goes to work in S.C. and teaches the Bailey children at home.

Listing: Yonts/Jan-Turan

Mon, 16 Nov 2009 13:00:00 -0500

Mon Nov 16 01:00 PM LIFE A Kentucky mother of two who's devoted to children's beauty pageants trades places with a Pennsylvania artist who shuns makeup.

Listing: Mayfield/Wasdin

Mon, 16 Nov 2009 12:00:00 -0500

Mon Nov 16 12:00 PM LIFE An untidy Texas mother switches places with a strict, very neat Alabama mom. While one tries to cope with five kids, the other deals with an 18-year-old, eight dogs and a goat. For the second week, the Texans learn about housework and a no-rules policy is introduced in Alabama.

Listing: Collins/Matlock

Fri, 13 Nov 2009 14:00:00 -0500

Fri Nov 13 02:00 PM LIFE A baseball-obsessed Texas mother of two sons trades places with a Michigan hairdresser who has raised her daughter and son to express themselves. The Texas mom deals with being a financial provider and having no help with chores, while the Michigan woman copes with a family that thrives on baseball.

Listing: Wiggins/Felix

Fri, 13 Nov 2009 13:00:00 -0500

Fri Nov 13 01:00 PM LIFE A black North Carolina mom switches places with a white upstate New York mother whose unemployed husband uses racist language. The North Carolinian teaches the two New York children discipline, while the New Yorker introduces the two strictly raised young men to a freer lifestyle.

Listing: Allison/Hagerty

Fri, 13 Nov 2009 12:00:00 -0500

Fri Nov 13 12:00 PM LIFE A Mississippi mother of three who teaches etiquette trades places with a freethinking Massachusetts mom with three rowdy boys. One tries to teach manners to a trio of roughnecks, while the other allows the kids to have burping contests.

Listing: Cedarquist/Oeth

Thu, 12 Nov 2009 14:00:00 -0500

Thu Nov 12 02:00 PM LIFE A stay-at-home (and practically back-to-nature) Vermont mother of six trades families with a Pennsylvania mother of four whose regimented suburban home life is almost as corporate as her work life. She's going to a place that's off the electric grid, while the fire-stoking, home-schooling mom discovers that her new husband has a computer program for supermarket shopping.

Listing: Patrick/Leierwood

Thu, 12 Nov 2009 13:00:00 -0500

Thu Nov 12 01:00 PM LIFE The matriarch of a peace-activist household switches places with a woman from a military family who thinks everyone should serve their country. Needless to say, there's going to be a war of the wills when it comes to changing one another's house rules.

Listing: Flummerfelt/Bray

Thu, 12 Nov 2009 12:00:00 -0500

Thu Nov 12 12:00 PM LIFE Two women from biracial families trade places to disprove certain stereotypes.

Listing: Pyke/Smith

Wed, 11 Nov 2009 14:00:00 -0500

Wed Nov 11 02:00 PM LIFE A woman who travels the country with her hubby and kids in a converted bus steps into the life of a homebody married to a real working stiff: a mortician.

Listing: Fontaine/Herman

Wed, 11 Nov 2009 13:00:00 -0500

Wed Nov 11 01:00 PM LIFE A frugal stay-at-home mother of four trades places with an executive with a household staff and a daughter who needs a little parental attention.

Listing: Burkhalter/Elliott

Wed, 11 Nov 2009 12:00:00 -0500

Wed Nov 11 12:00 PM LIFE A devoted mother from the deep South trades lives with a strict working mom from Maryland to see if coddling her kids is better than berating them.

Listing: Aguirre/Ray

Tue, 10 Nov 2009 14:00:00 -0500

Tue Nov 10 02:00 PM LIFE A punk-rock mother of three teens trades places with an old-fashioned Southern mom who has a son and daughter. The punk mom takes the other family's girl to get tattooed; the Southerner insists that the three teens change their style of clothes.

Listing: Paiss/Davis (Husband Swap)

Tue, 10 Nov 2009 13:00:00 -0500

Tue Nov 10 01:00 PM LIFE It's the men's turn to trade places in an hour that sends a leather-bound biker off to fill the eco-friendly sandals of a neo-hippie whose wife bristles at the abrasive new man in her communal home. Good thing week two gives the guys a chance to change the rules. Because one of them may not be able to handle that much red meat.

Listing: Harris/Van Noy

Tue, 10 Nov 2009 12:00:00 -0500

Tue Nov 10 12:00 PM LIFE A working wife leaves her stay-at-home man to see how things are for the bride of a fellow who feels a woman's place is in the kitchen. Which means somebody's dinner is about to be very late. And probably burnt to a crisp.

Listing: Bittner/Reimers

Mon, 09 Nov 2009 14:00:00 -0500

Mon Nov 9 02:00 PM LIFE A strict vegetarian leaves her ex-military hubby and disciplined kids behind to live in the roomy shoes of a free-spirited junk-food junkie who lets her children call the shots. Which means that someone is going to have a hard time taking control, while the other faces an uphill battle with a Navy veteran.

Listing: Smith/Weiner

Mon, 09 Nov 2009 13:00:00 -0500

Mon Nov 9 01:00 PM LIFE A fitness-minded type-A mom ditches California for the life of an emotional, overweight housewife in Florida. The switch shakes things up for both women, but even more so for the one who can't get used to a home devoid of fast food and friendly attitudes.

Listing: Ghani/Stallone

Mon, 09 Nov 2009 12:00:00 -0500

Mon Nov 9 12:00 PM LIFE A free-spirited vegetarian with a messy streak leaves L.A. to sample the life of a straight-laced stay-at-home mom in New Jersey who has a rough time dealing with her counterpart's New Agey ways. However, after a week passes, it's their kids who are having trouble, as one group gets a rude awakening about their video-game habits.

News: Wife Swap Co-Star: Richard Heene "Had the Mind of a Mad Scientist"

TV Guide — Tue, 20 Oct 2009 06:23:00 -0500

Sheree Silver, the woman who lived with the Heene family on Wife Swap, said Richard Heene, the father of balloon boy Falcon, "had the mind of a mad scientist" and a short temper.

"He wasn't very nice to me," Silver told People. "But ... I don't think he would ...

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News: Sheriff Calls Balloon Boy a "Hoax," Specifies Criminal Charges

TV Guide — Sun, 18 Oct 2009 11:43:00 -0500

The sheriff investigating the Balloon Boy incident said Sunday it was a "hoax" and a "publicity stunt" the boy's parents hoped to parlay into a reality TV show, and promised that charges would be presented to the local district attorney's office.

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News: Top Moments: Balloon Boy, Amazing Race, "Intercoursing" and More!

TV Guide — Fri, 16 Oct 2009 11:12:00 -0500

This week TV made us feel things. Trauma panicked us with a disgruntled employee shooting at his co-workers. Modern Family made us squirm and laugh with an off-color wedding toast. The contestants of The Amazing Race made us feel smart. And the idea of a little boy in a balloon crashing to his death made us all hold our breath and pray for his safety... and then puke. Welcome to this week's Top Moments: Funny Feelings Edition.

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News: Balloon Boy Vomits Twice on Television During Questioning

TV Guide — Fri, 16 Oct 2009 06:25:00 -0500

The 6-year-old boy involved in the helium balloon debacle that transfixed the nation vomited in two separate interviews Friday during questions about whether the incident was a publicity stunt and what the boy meant when he said "we did this for a show."

Balloon drama deflates amid intense coverage

During a live interview on CNN Thursday night, Falcon Heene said he heard his family calling his name while millions of people wondered about his whereabouts, but didn't come out of his hiding place because his father "had said that we did this for a show."

Falcon was ...

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