Rich House, Poor House
2017
📺 11 Seasons
🎬 65 Episodes
📅 Returning Series
🌐 EN
⏱️ 45 min/episode
RealityDocumentary
Two families from completely opposite ends of the financial spectrum and class divide swap homes, budgets and social status for seven days to discover how the other side lives.
Seasons
Season 1
Bristol's Caddy family trade places with the Williams family from Weston-super-Mare. The Caddys spend more than £1700 per week, compared to the Willams's £110 weekly budget.
Season 2
The Leamon family leave their four bedroom terrace house on a council estate to live in the Fiddles family's six bedroom house set in sixty acres.
Season 3
Successful vets Colin and Lizzy Whiting enjoy spending their disposable income on antiques. Marine engineer Ross Timmins and his wife Sarah, a hairdresser, work hard to budget what fund they have.
Season 4
The Colemans are in top tier for wealth, with a four bedroom house and a weekly budget of £1,800. However, the Morgans are among the poorest with a weekly budget of just £158 - less than a tenth of the Colmans.
Season 5
Terri-Ann Nunn went from a council flat to a life of luxury thanks to her diet business. The Ross family squeeze five kids into a three-bed renter.
Season 6
A landowner swaps his estate for a former council house.
Season 7
Businessman Adam and his father Ian, who live in a four-bedroom mansion in Essex, swap with single mum Kiptieu, who lives in a small council flat in Abbey Wood, London. With a number of successful businesses under his belt, Adam now travels round the world, interviewing the great and the good from showbusiness, sport and business.
Season 8
Millionaire barrister and property entrepreneur Roy Ledgister swaps homes with single mum Becky Biggington in a life-changing experience for both.
Season 9
A single Essex mum who is desperate to build a better life for her young daughter swaps with a multi-millionaire couple who live a life of luxury via their hugely successful business empire.
Season 10
Millionaire Lamborghini-driving Maxie swaps homes and lives with Danny and Nicky, who wash dishes in a local café. Featuring eight children, boxing, supercars, and botox, both families are tested to figure out whether money does buy happiness.
Season 11
Attitudes to money, risk and ambition are challenged as property millionaires Katy and Dan swap homes with tree surgeon Luke and carer Katy, who face daily financial struggles.
Crew
Writer
Claire Collinson-Jones
Producer
Claire Collinson-Jones
Network
5
Production
Hat Trick Productions
Keywords
economic problemswealth differencesbritish class systemreality tv