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Channel 4's hit series Wife Swap returns next month with a celebrity swap.

Debbie McGee, wife of magician and entertainer Paul Daniels, swaps places with outspoken radio presenter Vanessa Feltz.

Singer Ben Ofoedu and Vanessa are enjoying a whirlwind romance. Ben is ten years younger than Vanessa, and after four and a half months of dating he has just asked her to marry him.

Six mornings a week, Vanessa hosts BBC London's most popular radio phone in with a loyal audience of over 300,000 listeners.

While Vanessa and Ben love being in the heart of London, Paul and Debbie retreated from city life over 11 years ago and now live in a hamlet near Henley-on-Thames. They enjoy the quiet of country life - and being alone with each other.

WaveGuide

IT WAS the marriage made in hell—magician Paul Daniels and TV presenter Vanessa Feltz thrown together for Celebrity Wife Swap. notw

Sorry for Vanessa? Now that’s magic

IT IS a two-part conundrum to tax the finest philosophical minds: who wins when you exchange Vanessa Feltz (loud, overbearing, professionally irksome) for Debbie McGee (fluffy, wittering, brittle, pointless)?

And who benefits from transposing Debbie's grumpy and fossilised hubby, Paul Daniels, with a hunky young dude - Vanessa Feltz's current fiance - who, in 1999, provided the vocals on Turn Around, a so-so dance track, and is still trying to derive fame and profit from this fleeting brush with the charts eight years later?

The answer to each question is surprising, as well as being the same in both cases: we viewers won a minor victory in that Celebrity Wife Swap wasn't a complete waste of our time.

The Herald

"Cleaning Paul Daniels' toilet, this must be some kind of penance for a sin I committed in a past life," said Vanessa Feltz, brush in hand, on Celebrity Wife Swap.
Well, the sin of losing your chat show and being desperate to get back on telly, I suppose. Swapping partners with The Lovely Debbie McGee (her official title) meant another round of exposure for all three of their familiar reality show personas.

Scotsman

TV Show For Vanessa Feltz

Vanessa Feltz and her boyfriend, Ben Ofoedu, are to star in their own television show, according to reports today.

Feltz and Ofoedu recently appeared in Channel 4's Wife Swap in which they swapped with magician Paul Daniels and his wife Debbie McGee.

Details of the new television show have not been revealed, but it is thought it could be a fly-on-the-wall reality programme. waveguide