Q: Always on the look out for disfunctional families.... ABC has finally figured out where to find the ultimate disfunctional family!
Is this for real?
If you'd like to be considered... PM me and I'll forward the contact to you.
Cheers,
Kiyoshi
The following was received in the GGLC's email -
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Subject: RE: ABC TELEVISION
Date: Tue, 17 Oct 2006 17:19:16 -0400
From: Julia.Jenkins
To:
Greetings ~
My name is Julia Jenkins and I am a casting producer for ABC’s hit reality show ‘Wife Swap.’
If you are unfamiliar with the show, Wife Swap is a fascinating story of what happens when two married couples see themselves and their spouses in a whole new light. Time Magazine calls Wife Swap "a riveting examination of family values." The New York Post says, "It should be called ‘Life Swap’ because it's not just the wives who learn something here. It's the families."
The premise of Wife Swap is simple: for two weeks, two wives from two different families with very different values exchange husbands, children and lives (but not bedrooms) to discover what it’s like to live a different woman’s life.
We are currently casting for our third season and we are looking for a family where dad or mom are lotus enthusiasts.
Here at ‘Wife Swap’ we look for a two-parent home with at least one child between the ages of 6 and 17 living at home fulltime.
We are currently casting for our third season, so don’t miss out on this amazing experience! Families that appear on the show receive $20,000 as a thank you. And if you refer a family that appears on the show you would receive $1000.
If you have a family and you are interested in applying for the show, or if you know of any great families that you would like to refer, please EMAIL: julia.jenkins@*****.com.
Thanks, I look forward to hearing from you!
Julia Jenkins | Casting
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Where is LotusFamily? They would be perfect. Force the swapped wife to only use the Lotus to get around... I wanna watch this. Mainly because simply liking a car isn't that out of the ordinary... so the other family is gonna be a bunch of wacko's. So who's gonna do it?
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Originally Posted by dfa2100 Where is LotusFamily? They would be perfect.
Agree. And the casting producer should have no trouble finding an anti-authority family of deadbeats to be opposite Hancock County's finest LotusFamily.
A "thank you fee" of 20 large can go a long way in any direction...
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I dont know if wife would do it...but I am your man. Nobody live Lotus the way we do.
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The fact that they didn't capitalize Lotus makes the email appear suspect to me.
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AAAAHHHHHHAAAAA!!!! NO WAY! Kristen would kill the first girl to step foot in her car, then she would kill me for signing us up for the show. The Sheriff would just love to see me on TV (He already had to deal with a bit of a scandal from the local paper when we got the cars, evidently policemen cant have nice things) Mom and Dad might be interested though (trouble is Dad might not wanna switch back ) These things are nothing but trouble, we would end up with that past lady who was screaming about the devil in her house. I bet they would send a lady that was real anti-law enforcement thinking I cared, and we would both just sit around on camera complaining about police and the govt. until I went to work
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My guess is that e-mail was sent out to multiple car groups and they just did a find and replace on "lotus". They could have sent it to the Porsche forums, Ferrari forums, BMW forums etc as well (if it's real).
LotusFamily you should totally do it!!! Tell your wife that $20k will buy a lot of mods for her car...
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Yes...it would and could get ugly. In my opinion...for what they make on the show...20K is an insult. But the Hollywood community has been doing this for years...making money off the common folk.
Hollywood types have such a different sense of value. They would not even walk on the set for 20K.
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Looks like they're also looking for:
Superhero Families
Skateboard Moms
Families who spend all their time together
Workaholic Moms
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I think it would be funny to have a single person with no kids and a Lotus do the swap with a single parent who has a bunch of kids and then make them swap cars and make the Lotus owner drive a minivan full of screaming kids around.
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Originally Posted by xxxotic I think it would be funny to have a single person with no kids and a Lotus do the swap with a single parent who has a bunch of kids and then make them swap cars and make the Lotus owner drive a minivan full of screaming kids around.
That would be funny and worth watching! And there is unlikely to be the downside associated with the "Wife Swap".
And tvacc I fully agree - $20k is just a stupid insult