Coolio's girlfriend leaves him after they go on "Wife Swap"

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'Celebrity Wife Swap' makes Coolio's girlfriend realize she could do better - Yahoo! TV

We fully expected craziness from the latest episode of "Celebrity Wife Swap." We didn't expect that one of the "wives" -- Coolio's girlfriend, Mimi -- would swap herself out of Coolio's life six weeks after the show taped.

Not that we didn't see the signs when Mark McGrath, his wife Carin, and their two-year-old twins switched households with Coolio, Mimi (who does eeeeverything around their house), and her three kids. Mimi did have a bit of trouble adjusting to the McGrath household -- Mark, a classic "helicopter dad," catered to the twins' every need and hovered while she dressed the kids.

But over at the Cooliohaus, we saw Carin struggling with the insane demands on Mimi, including scrubbing toilets and floors while Coolio snored away in bed...and when Mimi informed Coolio at the post-swap summit, "Our relationship sucks, it really does," we had to agree with her. Mark might hover, she pointed out, but Mark is there; Mark is around; Mark is involved. More to the point, Mark acknowledged how much Mimi takes on with two jobs, three kids, and no help.

Coolio copped to his selfishness...but too late. A chyron at the end of the episode informed viewers that Mimi had taken the kids and moved out. (And started school, because she's awesome.)

There was more craziness before that, too; below, a rundown of the 10 nuttiest moments (and our pitch to give Mimi her own show).

[Related: Mark McGrath was 'very impressed by' Mimi]

1. The McGraths' boy twin, Lydon, won't go to sleep without Mark, so Mark and Carin had been sleeping in separate bedrooms for five months.

2. Mimi told Mark that she works as an exotic dancer in Vegas, and he seemed excited at the common ground: "I've probably done business with you!" Not only that, he said it in front of Carin's father-in-law, who lives with them.

3. Even the voice-over thought Coolio was too lazy. As viewers watched Carin get the kids ready for school on 2.5 hours of sleep, the V.O. sarcastically observed that Coolio was still in bed "despite having 'only' 10 hours of sleep." Hilarious! …Well, not for Carin. Or Mimi. Things didn't seem likely to improve given Coolio's, um, "vintage" attitudes about homemaking. He toodled off to play golf while spouting sexist clichés like "a woman's work is never done" and saying he didn't feel bad that Carin spent the day doing chores on no sleep.

4. Mimi nicely whispered to Lydon to wait a minute before banging on a xylophone, and when Lydon obeyed her, Mark acted like she'd just split the atom: "Does that work?!"

5. Mark violated the no-hovering rule repeatedly and had to have a timeout in a tiny yellow chair, while wearing a sparkly propeller beanie.

6. Carin made lunch for Coolio and tried to get to know him, and if she had hung in with it a little longer -- or if he had -- she might have broken through. Coolio admitted to being a "mama's boy" and said he didn't know his father well, because Dad spent most of Coolio's childhood in the penitentiary. But soon he shies away from the topic, calling Carin confrontational and leaving the table. It's not an excuse for his standoffish behavior, but it explains a lot about his reluctance to bond with the kids (and about Carin's savvy in spotting it).

Not really feeling the racial undertones here But hey, its Hollywood

@ Coolio though

 

[Chris.B]

the man dropped a classic though.

gangsta's paradise was way ahead of it's time

 

[Chelsea Bridge]

I would have been left his behind if I were her.

 

[Rawtid]

This is exactly why black men go with non-black women. So they can be lazy not have her complain.

 

[malbaker86]

I need a link to this episode

 

[concise]

get married, brehs


... submission is key to a great relationship

 

[TLR Is Mental Poison]

This is exactly why black men go with non-white women. So they can be lazy not have her complain.

Dont u mean with white women

They were together for like 20 yrs, she been working two jobs to support this dude. Its only just now she realized he was a bum

Enablers come in all races and genders.

 

[diggy]

Did she go on a fantastic voyage

 

[Ain't That Something]

That ether Damn

He is but a product of a single mother home. How can he learn to be a man if he didn't have a pops to teach him how to be one. He said it himself he was a mama's boy etc.

 

[Rawtid]

Dont u mean with white women

They were together for like 20 yrs, she been working two jobs to support this dude. Its only just now she realized he was a bum

Enablers come in all races and genders.

Whatever I meant, I was just trying to diss black men.

 

[SuburbanPimp]

I gotta see this shyt dawg....

I can see Coolio being lazy as shyt and still living life like he got a album coming out next month or something.

Then when his girl realizes its dudes out here who will let her sit down and kick her feet every once in a while and does shyt around the house. she probably got home and was looking at that nicca like I can do better then this sh!t

 

[Ohene]

pics of said wife?

 

[Steve Piffler]

 

[Rawtid]

:sadcoolio:

 

[TLR Is Mental Poison]

pics of said wife?

They werent married

If they were she would have taken everything. Braids and bands