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Ted Haggard Swaps Wives With Gary Busey On Celebrity Wife Swap

Jillian Rayfield | January 5, 2012, 11:41AM

Former New Life Church pastor and self-described "bisexual" Ted Haggard swapped wives with actor and self-described "church" Gary Busey for the ABC reality show Celebrity Wife Swap.

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Ted Haggard Appearing On Celebrity Wife Swap With Gary Busey

Jillian Rayfield | September 21, 2011, 2:38PM

Rev. Ted Haggard in "The Waiting Game"

Ted Haggard is filming an episode of ABC's Celebrity Wife Swap this week -- with Gary Busey.

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Ted Haggard To Make Cameo In Pro-Abstinence Christian Sex Comedy

Jillian Rayfield | May 31, 2011, 10:45AM

Rev. Ted Haggard in "The Waiting Game"

See if you can count the contradictions in this sentence: Rev. Ted Haggard will make a cameo as himself in a Christian sex comedy promoting abstinence, with the tagline "abstinence never felt so good."

Called The Waiting Game, the movie follows a schlub named Jack who's super excited about finally losing his virginity on his wedding night, but is foiled when his fiancee leaves him at the altar. He then goes on a quest to meet a replacement wife, while contemplating whether or not to remain abstinent.

In 2006 Haggard resigned in disgrace from the New Life Church after revelations that he had had a drug-fueled sexual relationship with a gay male former escort. After years of denying that he is gay, he recently admitted to GQ that "probably, if I were 21 in this society, I would identify myself as a bisexual."

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Ted Haggard: I'm Probably What The Kids Call 'Bisexual'

Jillian Rayfield | January 26, 2011, 3:33PM

Rev. Ted Haggard in "The Waiting Game"

In a new GQ profile, Rev. Ted Haggard addresses the continued assumptions that he's gay, following revelations years ago that the prominent evangelical had a drug-fueled sexual relationship with a gay male former escort: "I think that probably, if I were 21 in this society, I would identify myself as a bisexual."

But, he told GQ's Kevin Roose: "I'm 54, with children, with a belief system, and I can have enforced boundaries in my life. Just like you're a heterosexual but you don't have sex with every woman that you're attracted to, so I can be who I am and exclusively have sex with my wife and be perfectly satisfied."

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Ted Haggard

Ted Haggard: 'I Over-Repented' For My Meth-Gay Prostitute 'Crisis'

Jillian Rayfield | July 26, 2010, 9:47AM

Rev. Ted Haggard in "The Waiting Game"

Rev. Ted Haggard has been leading his own new church for the past few months, and in a Wall Street Journal profile says he thinks he "over-repented" for an affair with a male prostitute, which he refers to as "my crisis." He also insists he's not gay -- and that his affair was just a massage gone wrong.