About this season
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.
Episodes (12)
1. Episode 1
Aired 28 February 2021 • 45 min
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.
2. Episode 2
Aired 7 March 2021 • 45 min
A family, who enjoy a weekly disposable income of around £1200, are swapping lives for a week with Mike, Natalie, and their two young daughters. They hail from Coleshill on the outskirts of Birmingham, where they survive on just over £75 a week.
3. Episode 3
Aired 14 March 2021 • 45 min
A former city banker's family struggle on under £150 a week, while Jade and Dean and their five kids don't know how to spend their weekly allowance of £1300.
4. Episode 4
Aired 21 March 2021 • 45 min
Exploring if money buys happiness. Trevor and Marie swap their four-bedroom, three-bathroom detached house, with Michael and Natasha who get by on £100 a week.
5. Episode 5
Aired 28 March 2021 • 45 min
Multi-millionaire property investor Ayo and his best friend Patrick swap their luxury lifestyle with Jodie and her family who get by on £53 a week.
6. Episode 6
Aired 4 April 2021 • 45 min
Kamil's businesses turn over £3m a year and he makes over £40,000 profit every month, while his partner Francesca runs a successful lingerie company. They trade places with Derbyshire couple Mel and Sophie and their seven-month-old son Teddy, who live in a three-bedroom rented property in Derbyshire and exist on just £56 a week after bills for all their shopping and travel.
7. Episode 7
Aired 15 August 2021 • 45 min
In this episode, digital marketing company CEO Kelly Filistad, her husband Rob and their two daughters trade places with Natalie and Nikki Ryan and their three children, who live on around £99 a week.
8. Episode 8
Aired 22 August 2021 • 45 min
Single mum Geri has moved from job to job while struggling to raise daughter Scarlet and lives on under £60 a week, while millionaire businesswoman Debi has money but no work-life balance. For one week they're swapping lives, homes and budgets to find out if money really does buy happiness, with Geri heading to a luxury 18th-century home in Kent, while Debi lives in a ground-floor flat in Shoreham-on-Sea, West Sussex.
9. Episode 9
Aired 29 August 2021 • 45 min
Does money make you happy? Mum Gemma who owns a successful accountancy company swaps house with family who rents a three-bedroom council house and lives on Universal Credit.
10. Episode 10
Aired 5 September 2021 • 45 min
Single mum Naomi and her three children live in Walthamstow, east London, on £60 a week after bills are taken into account. They head to a luxury six-bedroom, six-bathroom property in Hertfordshire that is home Toni and her 27-year-old daughter Dayan, who are both successful businesswomen.
11. Episode 11
Aired 12 September 2021 • 45 min
Kim and Dave have risked everything by converting a field in Northumberland into an organic farm, growing fruit and vegetables, and raising rare-breed pigs and other animals, but rarely have time off and money is tight. They and their two children swap lives and homes with millionaire businesswoman Ampika, who lives just outside Manchester.
12. Episode 12
Aired 26 September 2021 • 45 min
A family leaves their four-bedroom terrace house on a council estate to live in a six-bedroom house set in 60 acres.