nstead of what we have in the UK called ‘Wife Swap’, in the States it’s called Trading Spouses, I’d have thought a far less catchy name. I suppose Fox, the network on which the show airs, didn’t want any association with the sexual antics side of the term which Channel 4 was deliberately courting when they named show.
Sometimes, Trading Spouses goes wrong, very wrong. When a Louisiana woman called Marguerite Perrin returned from her swap, she went into mild melt-down. In response to the ‘dark-sidedness’ of the family she was traded into, she declared herself a God Warrior, a phrase which has now made its way into the zeitgeist and has become a phrase of note, with depictions of her raging face used on bumper stickers and model clay dolls.
from the LA Times’ Calendarlive.com:
To this day, Perrin said she does not understand what went so wrong that she kicked a camera crew out of her Louisiana house and broke down. A devout Christian who owns a dance studio with her 24-year-old daughter, Ashley, Perrin traded homes with Jeanne D’Amico-Flisher, a 47-year-old hypnotist and pressure healer from Boxborough, Mass., who reads tarot cards and has a syndicated radio program called “Love Talk USA” with her husband, Chris.
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