'Wife Swap' sex assault claims withdrawn

A woman featured in a forthcoming episode of Channel 4 hit show Wife Swap made claims that she has been sexually assaulted by someone she met on the show.

Noelie Klineberg traded places with the unnamed woman, who went to live with Klineberg's millionaire husband Robin Goforth in Doncaster.

During the 10-day shoot, the woman and her husband pulled out of filming after she claimed she was attacked by one of Goforth's friends.

Channel 4 has said the woman has since withdrawn the allegations, and will still broadcast the programme next year as part of its seventh series.

Klineberg and Goforth are no strangers to reality TV. The couple appeared in ITV1's Flash Families in May this year, which exposed some of the most excessively flash couples in Britain.

This is also not the first time a Wife Swap run has been cut. Last week, Channel 4 said it was withdrawing an episode of the sixth series following the sudden death of one of the children in the featured family.

An inquest into the death of Daniel Boughey, suspected to be the result of natural causes, is pending. The series, which begins on October 9 following celebrity specials, will now run for three episodes rather than four.