It's grit versus glamour this week in Ridgely/Corrao, as rodeo barrel racer Cowgirl Jen trades families with luxury-living hair stylist Kim on Wife Swap.

Yes, I admit it. I watched this week's Wife Swap.

And now you know that I have a tendency towards some low-brow television. We sat around the den laughing at the hairstylist who screeched at the sight of some horse manure in the barn aisle. But, I’ve got to give the lady credit, she did shovel horse shit and even rode a horse for the first time in her life, bareback.

If I signed up for Wife Swap, I'd like to be sent to a house of a wealthy socialite woman who spends all of her time hot tubbing at the spa, working with a personal trainer, getting her nails done, having her hair and makeup done, having a daily massage, shopping at fabulous fashionable stores, and dining out. It would be like a mini-vacation. I suspect that you'd have to tell the producers that you were radically opposed to that sort of thing in order for them to send you to such a place. I'd probably wind up on a hawg farm in Arkansas ...

From Channel4.com Jen Ridgely and her husband Randy, a professional bull rider and steer wrestler, keep tight reins on their two young children, who do chores around the ranch when they're not in school. In their family rugged independence, hard work, competitiveness and frugality take precedence over romance and leisure time. The Corrao family, meanwhile, are bred on "la dolce vita". The children do just about whatever they want around the house, set their own bedtimes and even write on the walls. Can hairdresser Kim cope with shoveling horse manure morning, noon and night? What does "Cowgirl Jen" make of the lack of discipline and structure in the Corrao house?