Dweezil Zappa Has Been Reduced To Appearing On 'Celebrity Wife Swap'

Over the past two and a bit seasons, Celebrity Wife Swap, the reality show in which desperate celebrities, um, swap wives, has become a haven for once-great or at least once-interesting people who are now forced to languish in pay-TV hell (LifeStyle YOU, Monday, 8.30pm, from June 23) to make ends meet.

So far, the series has claimed the dignity of personalities such as Flavor Flav, Carnie Wilson (of Wilson Phillips), Coolio, Sisqó, Dee Snider of Twisted Sister fame, and the Jackson family's Jermaine Jackson. Sugar Ray frontman Mark McGrath also popped up, but his dignity was lost well in advance.

And now, it has proved that the apple can fall pretty much on a different continent to the tree, as Dweezil Zappa, the son of legendary experimental musician Frank Zappa and the leader of tribute act Zappa Plays Zappa, joins the ranks of fading stars swappin' wives for charity. No, wait. That would make this excusable. It's for no reason at all. Human warmth, maybe?

In the episode, which will likely air in Australia in about two months but aired a couple days ago in the States, Zappa and former Major League Baseball star David Justice do what the show title suggests (it's not a complex show) and trade their spouses.

As Wife Swap's website explains:

“The [Justice] family lives a very comfortable life on a sprawling 14,000 sq. ft. estate and employs both a housekeeper and groundskeeper to keep the household running efficiently. The kids do not have chores or responsibilities and spend much of their time playing sports. David is the “king of the castle” where [wife] Rebecca serves him breakfast in bed each morning.”

Meanwhile, over in the greened-up Zappa household:

“Dweezil and his family live a very “eco-friendly” lifestyle which includes walking rather than driving their car. The Zappas consciously conserve electricity and refrain from using the family dryer when doing laundry, opting to rather dry clothes outside in the backyard. The Zappa home is a 'cell free zone' giving the family more of a chance to interact and talk with each other, but [Zappa's stepdaughter] Mia really wishes she had a cell, being the only one of her pre-teen friends without one!”

…You know what? Just jam out to Zappa Plays Zappa playing Zappa and forget this ever happened. Poor Dweezil.