[James]

REALITY SHOW: Bed and Bardsleys
Channel: Channel 4
Date: Thursday 8th September 2005
Time: 23:35 to 00:25

After appearing on Wife Swap Lizzy and Mark Bardsley were branded spongers and layabouts. Their income from state benefits for themselves and their eight kids was over £37,000. The tabloids labelled them "Britain's laziest couple." But they have always argued that they are grafters who have fallen on hard times. Bed and Bardsleys is Lizzy and Mark's opportunity to prove their critics wrong. They have been challenged to run a Blackpool bed and breakfast for two weeks unaided. Its up to them to get up early every day to make breakfast, clean the rooms, work the bar and keep their guests happy. For Lizzy it's no easy task holding her tongue when an endless succession of demanding guests troop in her door. The arrival of Big Brother couple Stuart and Michelle turns Lizzy and Mark's thoughts to romance. They realise that they will always have each other and they finish their Blackpool challenge with a lavish marriage blessing complete with meringue wedding dress, horse and carriage and lots and lots of screaming kids.