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I just wanted to put this out there in case anyone would be intererested..I know trading spouses is looking for an ice skating family. This is a fox tv show.
General Information
Fox reality show
Paid 50,000
Contact...James Barcenas
Casting Director
Trading Spouses
Rocket Science Laboratories
323-802-0620
Jamesb@rocketsciencelabs.com

7 days of filming

Oooh! I wish we could do it, but no way would DH ever agree, plus my house is a complete wreck.

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Do they mean the whole family skates or could it just be one person? Where did you hear about this?

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They are looking for a family that has skaters.Do you think your family would do it ?Your mom has to go be with a different family :}

I like the $50,000 part. Too bad I don't have kids who skate!

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Is Portland the only city with it's own ice-dance website? http://www.pdxicedance.net/

$50,000 ?!?!?! How did I miss that? Lemme have a chat with DH.

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LOL - that was the first thing I saw... maybe I could borrow some kids...

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Is Portland the only city with it's own ice-dance website? http://www.pdxicedance.net/

THere is no amount of money that would entice me to set my family up for that. You have no control over how they edit it or decide to portray you..bad enough that people are willing to do that to themselves, but to expose their children? ...I just don't understand it. I close my shades at night so my neighbors can't see me, why I would invite cameras in my house for strangers to watch me...ick.

j

Just to clarify: do you realize that the show is Trading SPOUSES, not Trading Spaces? They're not going to make over your house - you (as the Mom) have to trade lives with someone else. Not even for $50 grand would I take a chance of losing it on camera, or letting someone else lose it with my kids.

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I figured people knew which show I was talking about, but maybe not. They are looking for a skate family, and Im sure they will show off how crazy and all the bad things about this sport.They wil match you with a family that is totaly different.

Probably someone who thinks skating is for pansies and will make your kids quit skating and take up boxing or somethng...

j

Or HOCKEY or BROOMBALL, maybe?

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they will most probably match the skating family with a family that does not beleive in organized sports so the skating family will show as vicious, ultra competitive. Most probably the skating child will be shown pushed to achieve by the mother etc etc. I know very well how this is going to go....

My dd is skating 3 ,50min sessions a week (no early mornings) with breaks for the holidays and summer and my friends around the school and the neibhorhood still think that I am insane and that my child has not life. So just immagine how a serious skating family will show on TV....

Here in the UK it's called Wife Swap. And, like all reality shows, it just wants to make the punters look stupid.

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Yes, I realized that, just forgot to add a after my post about having a chat with DH. We would never do a show like that. Don't even watch it, just get the drift from what others have said. Just for the record, we wouldn't ever do Trading Spaces either. Absolutely hate some of the designers, and DH does all his own work anyway.

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Trading Spouses is part of my "crap tv" repertoire. I must admit I enjoy watching it and most of the time underneath all the TV drama, it leaves you with a warm fuzy thankful-for-having-the-family you were given feeling.

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mlotz

You took the words right out of my mouth!

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Luckey

That is why we said no But it might be for someone else ...

Not a bad experience if you think about it, as long as *your* family is reasonably well-adjusted. Yes, they may or may not portray your family members favorably, but I can't imagine it'd be so bad as to traumatize the kids at school or anything.

Think of it as a kind of foreign exchange experience. You (and more importantly the kids) learn what makes other people tick.

Then again, you can give your kids that plenty of other ways without having the results broadcast on TV... On second thought, I have to say, that's just not cool, unless the kids are especially media savvy. Good opportunity for a family with a high-ranking novice or jr. skater in the familly, where she probably has had to deal with the media some already.

Hmm, "Blades of Glory" just came out, and Worlds was just on, and they're looking for a skating family? Coincidence?

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Too bad they won't take Canadians. That would give us a nice start on opening our skate shop. :-)

Oh lol...I think it would be fun. I'd give $50,000 to get away from my kids for the week. My dd isn't competitive enough so they probably wouldn't pick a family like ours anyway. I think the show is a crack up though.

LOL that would be halarious... I wonder if they would come to Canada??? My mom's definately a rink mom, although my sister and I only skate one day a week now... But that would be crazy if it was with someone who totally had a huge disregard for the sport!

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"You'll have to kill me to make me stop skating" -Alexei Yagudin

I can see it now...they would choose an ice skating family who are obsessed with their child/children winning. The family would have a ridiculous schedule of early morning and afternoon training and possibly could even be home schooled. The mother would be the skating equivilent of a "pageant mother"

The other family would be super duper layed back, non-competative lacking in discipline and invloved in NO sport

Anyone who is not familiar with the show watch THIS it is the end result of one mum being sent to stay with a family totally unlike her own...it is pretty funny

PS: I too have to admit Trading Spouses/Wife Sway is part of my "crap quota" TV viewing along with Idol, Big Bro, The Bachelor and much much more

My mom said she would totally sign up, but I don't think they'd choose a family with a beginning skater and very laidback parents.. they're going to pick someone that makes skaters and their parents seem insane!

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You are right, they are looking for kids that skate daily and compete