Wife Swap

BRISTOL PALIN AND JOAN RIVERS LIVING TOGETHER?

With no “Mr Selfridge” to look forward to on Sunday nights, we have to find other amusements. “Celebrity Wife Swap” can be surprisingly revealing and this week Bristol Palin and Melissa Rivers are trading places as single mothers. Bristol lives in small town Wasilla, Alaska with her sister Willow and her 4 year old son Tripp. Melissa lives in a Los Angeles mansion with her mother Joan Rivers and her son Cooper, 12. (Willow and Joan will stand in for the missing “husbands.”) How BRAVE is Bristol to move in with Joan, who has probably made hundreds of Sarah Palin jokes? (We recall Joan labeling Palin “a Nazi, stupid and crazy.”) It just shows how much these girls love doing reality shows. Definitely worth a look tonight on ABC.
Photo via: Fox News

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IS ANDREW DICE CLAY READY FOR THE NEW POLITICAL CORRECTNESS?

Andrew Dice Clay, 54, says he’s “back” thanks to his appearances on “Entourage.” He admits his career was dead for the last decade but now he’s performing in stadiums again. After being short of cash for a long time, Clay himself was surprised when he turned down a $100,000 offer from “Wife Swap.” Too bad – it might have been fun. Last year Clay got married for the third time – to 27 year old makeup artist Valerie Vasquez, (above) whom he met at the Playboy mansion. Outspoken Clay is noted for his racist, sexist, homophobic rants – we wonder how long it will take for him to rub the current “politically correct” public the wrong way.

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NENE LEAKES AND STAR JONES HAVE A FUTURE ON REALITY TV

The success of “Dancing With the Stars” and “Celebrity Apprentice” and “Celebrity Rehab” has all the networks scrambling for reality shows involving celebrities in some kind of peril or unfamiliar situation. Last year, CBS announced it was working on a “fish out of water” pilot called “The Name Game” where a celebrity switched lives with an everyday person with the same name. (For example, actor Gary Busey might switch lives with a car mechanic with the same name.) They soon learned it was impossible to find willing participants with the same names. According to Deadline/Hollywood, ABC has ordered episodes of a celebrity edition of their hit Wife Swap (or is it LIFE SWAP?) in which celebrities switch lifestyles for a week. Come to think of it, we wouldn’t mind seeing NeNe Leakes and Star Jones swapping lives for a week.

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