OMG ALSO VERY URGENT

[seventhe]

THERE ARE TWO NEW* EPISODES OF WIFE SWAP ON TONIGHT.

I CANNOT EXPRESS MY EXCITEMENT WITHOUT USING CAPITAL LETTERS.



*New = ones I have not seen yet. apparently they are old. I DO NOT CARE

Comments

[fireholly.livejournal.com]

Did I tell you that my family nearly got invited to go on Wife Swap?

[first-seventhe.livejournal.com]

...are you joking??

That raises you to a totally new level of amazingly awesome.

PLEASE TELL MORE.

[fireholly.livejournal.com]

Well, it's a long story, but I'll go into it.

The wife of one of my dad's mates is a freelance journalist, and she was doing an article for The Independant about sibling relationships with large age gaps. She'd already found her age-gap-means-the-kids-hate-each-other family, and so she decided to use us as her age-gap-means-the-kids-adore-each-other family (there's seven years between my brother and I).

It wasn't hard - she gave my mum a little interview over the phone, and some random photographer came round to the house and took photos of the family looking all nice and middle-class and civilised (which is another example of lying in the media). Then, when it was over, the article was printed and we didn't think of it for years.

Then came The Letter. It was from Channel 4. They wanted us to be on an ep of Wife Swap, and they said they'd got us onto their database via the article.

We never really considered it, per se, but when we did we remembered the photo in the article making us look all cute and loving and middle-class and tidy, and realised we'd end up getting some sixteen-year-old chain-smoking mother of two who has a job in a fish factory beheading them.

(OMG. This icon is appropriate.)

[first-seventhe.livejournal.com]

...MAN. That's so AWESOME.

You totally would've gotten either the slob mom, the slut mom, or the slobby-slut mom. (There was one ma who wore sequinned headbands and showed tons of cleavage. Guess who she got traded with. That's right, the almost-Amish family.)

I honestly think being on the show would drive me absolutely insane. But watching it is great fun!