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Now Lizzy will rock Blackpool as B&B boss!

Katie Hopton
24/ 9/2004

'WIFE Swap' mum Lizzy Bardsley is to be a landlady - running a bed and breakfast business in Blackpool for a new reality TV series.

Lizzy, aged 31, and husband Mark head to Blackpool next month where they will be filmed making the beds and cooking breakfast for various mystery celebrity guests.

The Bardsleys' efforts will be shown over four one-hour episodes in the new year.

After looking after their eight children at home in Milnrow, they believe that running a B&B should be 'a piece of cake.'

Lizzy said: "We have got 10 people living in our house now and with eight children we are always kept busy.

"Everybody staying with us at the B&B will be adults so it should be easy to look after them, unless they start acting like children.

"I have to say it has not been a lifelong ambition to run a B&B but we thought that it was a positive opportunity and we are going to take the bull by the horns."

Lizzy and Mark first hit the headlines last year on Channel 4's 'Wife Swap' when it was revealed that they claimed £37,500 in benefits. Viewers saw a stormy showdown between Lizzy and Devon mother-of-two Emma Spry, who branded them 'spongers.'

Fireworks are set to fly once again in 'Bed and Bardsley', by the makers of 'Wife Swap'.

Lizzy added: "I am still the same person. If I get annoyed people will see me get annoyed like on 'Wife Swap.'

"But this time we are in control because we are in charge.

"Contrary to belief I am not workshy. I still work for a local taxi firm.

"This programme will give people the opportunity to see us in a different situation.

"The show won't be choreographed at all. We will actually be running a business and it will be done properly.

"The cameras will be there around the clock so it will be real life."