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Ted Haggard to Appear on Celebrity Wife Swap

And he'll trade mates with ... Gary Busey

By Evann Gastaldo,  Newser Staff

Posted Sep 22, 2011 8:48 AM CDT

(Newser) – In possibly the weirdest news you’ll hear all day, sex-and-drug-scandal-plagued Ted Haggard is going on the celebrity edition of ABC’s Wife Swap reality show … and will swap partners with Gary Busey. Yes, in case you’d forgotten, Haggard still has a wife—despite the fact that he admitted paying for meth-fueled sex with a male masseuse in 2006. The probably-bisexual pastor now runs a nondenominational church in Colorado, and Busey is apparently a good match for him: The born-again actor is involved with Christian men’s organization Promise Keepers.

However, Busey bizarrely has no wife, just a girlfriend with whom he has a child. Producers haven’t said whether she’s the swapee or not, People notes, but the Colorado Springs Gazette reports that she is. Busey, of course, has slightly more experience than Haggard with reality TV, having already appeared on Celebrity Rehab and Celebrity Apprentice. But Haggard, who is apparently trying for a second career in entertainment, has appeared in a Christian “sex comedy.”

In this June 2, 2010 photo, Ted Haggard stands with wife Gayle at his side while talking about the new church that he is starting up during a news conference at their home in Colorado Springs, Colo.
In this June 2, 2010 photo, Ted Haggard stands with wife Gayle at his side while talking about the new church that he is starting up during a news conference at their home in Colorado Springs, Colo.   (AP Photo/Ed Andrieski, File)
Gary Busey and partner Stephanie Sampson arrive for the Comedy Central Roast Of Larry The Cable Guy at the Warner Brother Studio Lot on March 1, 2009 in Burbank, USA.
Gary Busey and partner Stephanie Sampson arrive for the Comedy Central Roast Of Larry The Cable Guy at the Warner Brother Studio Lot on March 1, 2009 in Burbank, USA.   (Getty Images)
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COMMENTS
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Jingo
Sep 23, 2011 5:58 AM CDT
Should be Richard Dawkins instead of Gary Busey
Cat-Lover
Sep 22, 2011 11:31 AM CDT
It would be more interesting if Ted Haggard and Gary Busey were put together so we could watch XXX on ABC.
ElleMonkey
Sep 22, 2011 9:40 AM CDT
Evann! I'm in love with this sentence. Jammed packed full of goodness: "Yes, in case you’d forgotten, Haggard still has a wife—despite the fact that he admitted paying for meth-fueled sex with a male masseuse in 2006."

 
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