ABC's Celebrity Wife Swap will ask what happens when semi-famous people trade places with other semi-famous people
In an effort to revive interest in ABC’s flagging Wife Swap, the network is taking a cue from the UK edition and creating a Celebrity version, one that will find ostensibly famous people switching lives with other famous people in order to live in a wholly different type of bubble. So far just six episodes have been ordered, with ABC only tentatively exploring whether a “celebrity” edition of the show can have the same effect that The Celebrity Apprentice did for its flagship, though its success will depend solely on locating celebrities—even loosely defined—who are both actually married and willing to participate.