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'Wife Swap' Contestant Sues Over Gay "Wife"
IMDB.com ^ | 22 November 2005

Posted on 11/23/2005 6:06:52 AM PST by paudio

A contestant on ABC's Wife Swap is suing the Walt Disney Company and the show's producer, RDF Media, for $10,225,000 after the person involved in the swap turned out to be a gay man. Jeffrey D. Bedford of Haileyville, OK told the Muskogee Phoenix that he could not comment on the case but provided a copy of his lawsuit in which he claims that the producers told him that if he did not proceed with the filming, they would not tell him his wife's whereabouts and would not pay for her return home; that the gay man invited members of a "gay coalition" to his home for Bible study; and that "as a result of intentional infliction of mental distress he has incurred medical bills, public humiliation, embarrassment and undue grief." ABC spokeswoman Annie Fort told the Phoenix: "ABC is confident that RDF Media, the producer of Wife Swap, treats participants professionally and with respect. The show is meant to challenge a family's norms and moreover, the agreement between the plaintiff and RDF specifically stated that the swapped spouse could be either male or female." She said that the episode involving Bedford has yet to be scheduled.


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Why did he agree to swap wife in the first place, anyway? But, what the producers did to him is really terrible...
1 posted on 11/23/2005 6:06:53 AM PST by paudio
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To: paudio

They all deserve each other what a cluster f#@k! ROFLMAO !


2 posted on 11/23/2005 6:10:02 AM PST by Wil H
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To: paudio

I agree on both counts. Just being ivolved in this stupid show should cause public humiliation....
susie


3 posted on 11/23/2005 6:10:18 AM PST by brytlea (I'm not a conspiracty theorist....really.)
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To: paudio

IIRC, the last time TV pulled the old switcheroo, somebody got wacked.


4 posted on 11/23/2005 6:10:32 AM PST by SJSAMPLE
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To: paudio
Serves him right. The show is called "Wife Swap" for cripes sake. Was he expecting wholesome discussions of family values?
5 posted on 11/23/2005 6:10:44 AM PST by T.Smith
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To: paudio

The management of ABC is as big a bunch of sicko
perverts as the deviates that run, write for and
appear in the diseased crap that NBC & MSNBC call
entertainment and (Hah!) "news".


6 posted on 11/23/2005 6:11:26 AM PST by Baby Driver
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To: paudio

Anyone STUPID enough, and I mean GALACTICALLY STUPID, to put himself on such a show deserves what happens to him.


7 posted on 11/23/2005 6:16:56 AM PST by NRA1995 (When liberals speak I hear the Vonage music playing.....woo-hoo, woo-hoo-hoo....)
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To: paudio

Not to mention that the habits of most male queers includes the molestation of young boys, when they can get away with it.


8 posted on 11/23/2005 6:17:26 AM PST by Neoliberalnot
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To: paudio

Walt Disney must be rotating at around 1000 RPM in his grave when he see's what 'Disney' has become.....


9 posted on 11/23/2005 6:17:47 AM PST by Vaquero ("An armed society is a polite society" R. A. Heinlein)
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The key here is "WIFE" swap. A Gay man is NOT a WIFE, cannot be a WIFE and will never be a WIFE. Disney played with words and tried to be cute. I hope they loose their a$$ over this.


10 posted on 11/23/2005 6:27:40 AM PST by MadeInAmerica
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To: paudio

11 posted on 11/23/2005 6:30:52 AM PST by martin_fierro (< |:)~)
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To: SJSAMPLE

Fatally whacked.


12 posted on 11/23/2005 6:31:53 AM PST by quantim (Detroit is the New Orleans of the north. It was settled by the French.)
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And I will add, this is Disneys way of going around the gay marriage issue. A wife, as recognized by the courts can ONLY be a woman.


13 posted on 11/23/2005 6:31:56 AM PST by MadeInAmerica
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"The show is meant to challenge a family's norms ..."

I can hardly wait for the next evolution in this kind of
TV programming, likely ton volve , " Gay Swap" , " Daughter Swap"or why not , " Dog Swap?"

This kind of crapola is why I do not have a TV in my home.
Got so sick of MSM in 2002, that we got rid og it. Ah ...peace and quiet at home and the only thing I swap
is maybe my lawn mower.

I do not lend out my wife, my guns or my truck.They should have a TV program about that kind of livin'. ( "Red Neck Wife Swap" , red neck pounds swapper who wants red neck wife!) I would get my TV back just to watch such a program.

No wonder so many folks have aids and STD's in America!


14 posted on 11/23/2005 6:32:32 AM PST by Candor7 (Into Liberal Flatulence Goes the Hope of the West)
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The swapped spouse could be male or female

Sorry Charlie, but unless this was shot in Mass_of_two_shifts
(i.e Kennedy & Kerry's territory)

the guy could not be a spouse
15 posted on 11/23/2005 6:35:28 AM PST by RetiredSWO
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To: quantim
http://www.courttv.com/archive/trials/schmitz/091499_sentence_ctv.html
16 posted on 11/23/2005 6:37:23 AM PST by quantim (Detroit is the New Orleans of the north. It was settled by the French.)
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To: little jeremiah

Here is a news story that may be appropriate for both the 'Moral Absolutes' and 'Homo Agenda' ping lists....LOL

IMHO, this fool deserved what he got for agreeing to swap his wife in the first place.


17 posted on 11/23/2005 6:37:49 AM PST by indcons (FReepmail indcons to join the "Military History" ping list)
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To: paudio

What else would you expect from Disney company.


18 posted on 11/23/2005 6:39:39 AM PST by isrul
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A gay 'spouse' is not legally recognized in any state except Massaschusetts. It seems to me that the guy will easily win his case. Disney/ABC will probably love all the publicity and make tons of money after paying off this whiner.

I don't think Chistians should get all upset if a their Wife Swap spouse turns out to be gay. Or Nazi. Or Hillary Clinton. A devout Christian would not participate in such events.
19 posted on 11/23/2005 6:42:53 AM PST by George W. Bush
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20 posted on 11/23/2005 6:42:58 AM PST by orionblamblam ("You're the poster boy for what ID would turn out if it were taught in our schools." VadeRetro)
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