A WAG swapped her multi million pound private villa in Morocco for a cramped caravan park on Channel 5's Rich Holiday, Poor Holiday.
Mum-of-three Jude – who was previously married to Liverpool footballer Djibril Cissé – lives in an eight-bedroom manor house in Cheshire with sons Marley, Prince and Cassius.
The former model now has a property business worth £6m and was even given the title of Lady when she purchased the 10 acre estate in 2005 with her ex-husband.
As well as taking them on exotic holidays, Jude and her sons split their time between their sprawling Cheshire home and her multi million pound villa in Morocco.
Complete with its own swimming pool, the lavish mansion is situated on an exclusive golf course outside Marrakesh and even comes with a private chef and housekeeper.
Acknowledging that she has "expensive" taste, Jude admits at the start of the experiment: "My worst holiday would be cramped up constantly in a building with the kids."
As part of the television experiment, Jude and her boys swap holidays with the McQueen family who haven't been away in two years.
Jay and his wife Leah live in a cramped flat in Brixton, South West London, with their six kids.
Although Jay earns £450-a-week working as a bus driver, Leah is now a full-time mum who home schools their three youngest children.
After they've done their weekly food shop and paid all their bills, the couple have £60 leftover – which makes budgeting for a holiday for their family-of-eight very difficult.
Whereas Jude and her boys often jet off to their Moroccan villa, the last holiday the McQueens had was in a cramped caravan on the South coast two years ago.
At the start of the experiment, Leah says: "My dream holiday is to relax and watch the kids have fun."
In order to see how the other half live, the McQueens get to spend the week in Jude's incredible Moroccan mansion which involves the whole family flying out together – something they've never done before.
In comparison, Jude, her mum Christine and her boys get to experience the McQueens' typical holiday at a caravan park in Devon.
After realising just how far Devon is from Cheshire, Jude's oldest son Cassius protests: "I am not sitting in a car for five hours!"
The family drive through the night to get to their destination – and for the first time ever, the boys have to share a bedroom while Jude is forced to sleep on the sofa of the cramped £150-a-night caravan.
After her first night on sofa, Jude struggles to deal with the close proximity of her neighbours.
She said: "My first night in the caravan was better than I expected.
"Although I did hear some funny noises… I wouldn't like to say what. It just makes you realise people can hear you in the caravan.
"I slept on the sofa and I had to face the window otherwise I felt like I was just going to roll off."
What's more, the boys are horrified to find the static caravan has just one toilet and make a fuss about getting in the holiday park's pool for fear other children will have "weed in it".
After her three kids refuse to go to the outdoor pool, Jude has to dip into their £260 budget for the week to pay for them all to go to the indoor pool at the leisure centre.
Over in Morocco, the McQueen kids get the choice between the villa's own impressive pool and sunloungers as well as a £625-a-day private pool club.
But despite being waited on hand and foot, Leah struggles to relax in the villa.
As her children are tucking into yet another buffet, the mum-of-six said: "I feel a bit lost not being able to do things for the kids."
In total, the McQueen's holiday cost £11,000 for the family-of-eight to spend a week in the villa with a housekeeper and chef as well as going on outings to the local area.
Although Leah said she would prefer to invest that money in her children's futures if it were hers to spend, she added: "Having money gives you more time because you can pay people for the things you don't want to do!"
In comparison, Jude spent just £637 for four nights in the caravan park with six people – and actually found the break "less stressful" than usual.
"If we weren't on a budget, the children would have been asking for things all the time," Jude admitted. "But the penny dropped and they knew what we had to spend and we had to careful about what we spent it on."
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