Ted Haggard, the disgraced Evangelical pastor from Colorado Springs, will appear on an upcoming edition of ABC’s “Celebrity Wife Swap,” the network and the production company confirmed Wednesday.

Haggard and his wife Gayle will swap spouses with actor Gary Busey and his wife on the reality show. The series was launched in the UK. The U.S. version regularly pairs couples from different cultures/socioeconomic backgrounds/faiths/creeds and swaps partners for a short period as friction ensues.

No stranger to television, Haggard has appeared on TLC in a documentary and, in January, said that film, “Ted Haggard: Scandalous” could lead to a reality TV series.

Now, reality TV beckons. No airdate is set.

The pastor and his wife remain married, although Haggard admitted in 2006 to paying a Denver male masseuse for sex on a regular basis over a three-year period, and to using crystal meth.

The scandal cost him his post as senior pastor of New Life Church in Colorado Springs, and his standing as president of the National Association of Evangelicals.

Haggard told GQ in 2011, “I think that probably, if I were 21 in this society, I would identify myself as a bisexual.”

Joanne Ostrow: 303-954-1830 or jostrow@denverpost.com