08/14/2007
Desperate Housewives Gay Couple is Cast
Wisteria Lane's gay couple is set to move in.
"Desperate Housewives has tapped One Life to Live's Tuc Watkins and ex-Judging Amy actor Kevin Rahm to play Wisteria Lane's first gay couple. Watkins will play Bob, described as a country mouse who leaves the big city for greener (and quieter) pastures. Rahm is his bitchy partner, Lee. Both roles are of the recurring variety. Interestingly, the characters' names are a tribute to ABC News' Bob Woodruff and his wife Lee, whom series creator Marc Cherry befriended last spring."
So much for pipe dream stunt casting!
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Posted by: Marco | Aug 14, 2007 1:40:34 PM
'bitchy partner' - just what we need. I'm so over 'bitchy'...
Posted by: Chux | Aug 14, 2007 1:41:58 PM
Tuc Watkins--YUM!! I thought he was so cute in The Mummy--too bad about that whole losing your eyes and tongue thing, though.
Posted by: homogenius | Aug 14, 2007 1:42:19 PM
I WAS WONDERING WHERE I HAD SEEN THAT FACE BEFORE, THANKS GENIUS, THAT ANSWERED MY QUESTION.
Posted by: CLIFF | Aug 14, 2007 1:44:57 PM
Hmm - the most interesting thing about this is that one of these actors playing gay is actually gay. Beyond that....yawn.
Posted by: hoya86 | Aug 14, 2007 1:48:16 PM
Yum, Tuc. I'm still torn up that they never continued "Beggers & Choosers" on Showtime.
Posted by: Mike | Aug 14, 2007 1:56:08 PM
Tuc is one of my closest friends, and a great comic actor. He will do an awesome job. He did a great job on Showtime's Beggars & Choosers playing a fully-formed, sane, masculine gay character.
Posted by: JD | Aug 14, 2007 2:05:44 PM
Mmmmm.... Tuc Watkins...
He also was in the 1997 gay romantic comedy "I Think I Do", playing Alexis Arquette's lover.
Posted by: Roy | Aug 14, 2007 2:14:33 PM
Love, love, love Tuc Watkins.
That Kevin Rahm dude looks a little "young James Spader"-ish, which is always a good thing.
Posted by: The Gene Genie | Aug 14, 2007 2:24:16 PM
JD: Loved Tuc in I THINK I DO, a really underrated movie. Do you know if he's open about his politics? Just curious, was noticing a high conservative body count at DHouswives.
Posted by: Matthew Rettenmund | Aug 14, 2007 2:28:40 PM
Kevin Rahm is, in fact, the second-best James Spader clone in all Hollywood! Third, if you count Spader himself.
Micheal Shanks, however, is the all-time champion Spader clone.
Posted by: adamblast | Aug 14, 2007 2:30:59 PM
Tuc's a nice guy. Good for him.
Posted by: GM | Aug 14, 2007 2:57:12 PM
tuc watkins (david vickers) is the best thing on oltl. too bad his role is small. save me some time, HOYA86, which is the gay one?
marc cherry considers himself a conservative, gay republican. that fat-fuck.
Posted by: nic | Aug 14, 2007 3:18:10 PM
Watkins has quite the bod Rahm is cute for his type but where some see Marc Cherry pie, I expect nothing but more pits from this fag Repug with the pathological need to make us look bad. ...What? He's a darling of GLAAD? Well, excuuuuuuuuuuse me!
Posted by: Leland Frances | Aug 14, 2007 3:20:01 PM
Love Tuc, have since Beggars. Never watched Judging Amy but Kevin is adorable. Hopefully they will get some decent scenes.
Posted by: secretagentman | Aug 14, 2007 4:05:17 PM
I'm guessing Tuc Watkins is the real-life gay?
Posted by: Jason | Aug 14, 2007 5:46:05 PM
A country mouse and a bitch, but at least they're a couple. Imagine the terror a 'single' gay male would cause, with a rampant libido. If they can't make us eunuchs, they put us in 'committed' relationships. Talk about your stereotype.
Posted by: DC8 Stretch | Aug 14, 2007 5:48:14 PM
The first gay couple on "housewives" was Bree's son Andrew and his boyfriend Justin.
Posted by: Joe | Aug 14, 2007 6:43:19 PM
Yawn...the storyline already seems boring as hell.
What I'm interested in is Andrew letting out his gay psychopathic side and unleashing holy hell again. Fun times....fun times!
He and his slutty sister are the only thing worth watching the show for (and Bree's Martha-esque qualties)
Posted by: Jordan | Aug 14, 2007 7:41:42 PM
Yes, I'm hoping Cherry empties his purse of all his personal demons and that Art the child molester moves back to Wisteria Lane and rapes Andrew [a little too old for Art but] and then the two of them proceed to rape Lynette and Tom's three sons, and Edie's boy and her nephew, tho he's a also a little old for Art. Andrew and Art wager Bob and Lee over who can do the entire Fairview Little League team first and several missing Boy Scout badges are found under Andrew's bed. All then are discovered to have contracted AIDS but the very special Xmas episode ends with Gabi doing a fashion show in which Alec Mapa movingly models all the gowns.
Posted by: Leland Frances | Aug 14, 2007 7:56:59 PM
"Bitchy partner"...great. Every gay character on the show so far as has been evil, bitchy, swishy or punched in the face by Carlos (sometimes all of the above). Mark Cherry should be strung up...and I can't believe GLADD keeps giving him awards...SHAMEFUL!!
Posted by: steven | Aug 14, 2007 8:10:07 PM
The only reason they give him awards is probably cause he gives them tons of money or something. He can put those awards where his heart should be (if he can find it under all that fat)
The show had better come up with something original and fast, cause last season it slipped creatively in a big way. It was so boring it most likely lost most of it's viewers anyway.
It would have been WAY hotter if he had cast David Beckham & Robbie Williams as the gay couple like it had been rumored. Can you imagine what that would have done for ratings?
Really now the only way I'm gonna watch is to see how they find Edie's corpse and after Andrew starts acting up again (evil gays are SO much more fun). And if Cherry is such a genius, why didn't he get Paris Hilton to cameo as a ex-con slut friend of Andrew's sister? (forgot her name). THAT would be good tv (just to see her flub her lines).
Posted by: Jordan | Aug 14, 2007 9:44:52 PM
I'll consider watching again for this. I stopped watching when I found out Cherry is a Republican. I feel sorry for all of you who stuck with a show you all freely admit is boring as hell. What a waste of time.
Posted by: Johnny | Aug 15, 2007 12:14:54 AM
I saw that Tuc Watkins with his dog by my place in Vancouver once years ago. He is one hot guy.
Posted by: JRF | Aug 15, 2007 12:20:02 AM
I have been in love/lust Tuc Watkins since the Mummy and the past few years on One Live To Live where his outfits mainly consisted of form fitting crotch enhancing shorts. I loved when he would give us a profile glance, how that protusion got past the Disney censors confounds me - but I'm not complaining. He must be HUGE! He is hot, sexy and cute mixed together, he is also a darn good actor. Ill miss him in Llanview but I happily/hornily welcome him to Wisteria Lane as long as he keeps on wearing those shorts and no shirt.
Posted by: Robert Alan | Aug 15, 2007 1:06:52 AM
Here's Tuc in action on OLTL:
http://youtube.com/watch?v=9Eqy7_-ATbo
He comes on a bout the 50 second mark.
- kch, http://moviedearest.blogspot.com/
Posted by: Kirby | Aug 15, 2007 1:30:13 AM
As for the "bitchy" character:
Look at all this bitching on this post alone. I wonder where Marc Cherry got the idea from?
Posted by: Kirby | Aug 15, 2007 1:34:37 AM
Kirby, you're awesome.
I think Cherry can't win. He's getting hit for having a committed couple, on a show that sends-up the "dark side" of the perfect little suburban lives of suburban couples? By making them a suburban couple like everyone else, he by definition makes them part of the landscape, the way having a single man would not--the storyline of having a new couple on the show (in the Applewhite house?) wiht the twist that they are gay has a lot of possibility--even long-term possibility. A single gay character shoved onto the street among a bunch of straight characters will by definition be an outsider and and guest star. I think this is consistent with the nature of the show...and no one is saying this couple will be boring and happy. I know that the bitchy one goes to "war" with Susan, Teri Hatcher's character, who is going out of her way to show how "hip" and "PC" she is only to make a fool out of herself and create a comic nemesis.
If they can, in the middle of the camp and soap opera, have interesting, and hopefully positive, interactions with the street's gay teen (who was hardly a shrinking violet--gay committed couple or not, the first gay main character on Wisteria Lane was an Aaron Spelling style uber-bitch, who was sexually active, delightfully selfish and revenge-minded, and a teen, to boot. It's not like Cherry said, I'd like to add gay characters but I'll play it safe...the gay couple, and positive role models for Andrew?, came not first, not second (that was the bi-sexual AA sponsor who slept with both Andrew and his Mom), but third. What's wrong with a positive portrayal mixed in with things? C'mon!
(I did not know Cherry was a Republican--but I really think is irrelevant, as the most Republican character on the show is the gun-toting, homophobic, scarily-but-hilariously-repressed Bree, who's conservative is obviously played for humor and derision rather than idealized. Terry-I'm-close-to-Bush-41-Hatcher is presumably a Republican, but, if anything, her character comes across as clueless and apolitical. Do I think being a Republican--in it's modern incarnation--is grossly misguided? Absolutely, but being one does not preclude me from exposing myself to anything you touch--particularly if you are a writer or entertainer...and as long as you aren't saying hateful things off the air, or working overtime to influence others to your flawed point of view, your personal politics--much like your sexuality--are not my business.)
Posted by: BKaelig | Aug 15, 2007 10:33:07 AM
Well whatever, Marc Cherry is FAT, and that is a much bigger sin than being a Republican (nazi).
Posted by: Jordan | Aug 15, 2007 12:09:05 PM
I have a friend who did Tuc's fan website years ago--he was/is a sweetheart, and almost ridiculously good-looking. It's a little odd that he's never really been embraced by the gay community, but then again he was always kind of quietly "out," unlike T.R., Neil Patrick, Chad Allen, and others who've had big coming-outs. (Comings-out?) Great that he's getting this kind of exposure, and hopefully Cherry won't design them too much like the pair in "The Stepford Wives," who were amusing but a tad stereotypical.
Speaking of "Beggars and Choosers," didn't Bruce Campbell have a gay role and relationship on that? Was it with Tuc?
Posted by: Dean | Aug 15, 2007 2:00:44 PM
Pretty much every character on the show is a terrible person, gay or straight.
Posted by: Eric | Aug 15, 2007 2:16:11 PM
If you think gay people are bitchy, you must not read the "straight"er blogs, like WWTDD...they invented that shit. As for DHousewives, I didn't stop watching it for politics and I didn't stop watching it out of bitchiness. I don't have anything snarky to say about it. I liked it the first season, then the second season it was like an alarm clock going off—I just stopped liking it. I think a lot of viewers felt that. It's too bad, but there it is. Maybe this new plot will help. The Alfre Woodard plot was so uninteresting. Good for Tuc. Lucky break for him.
Posted by: Matthew Rettenmund | Aug 15, 2007 4:59:49 PM
Characters welcome! The new characters should be fun and may enliven Desperate Housewives which needs a boost.
Posted by: JimmyG | Aug 18, 2007 3:12:12 PM
I have drooled over Tuc Watkins on OLTL sine he came on the show in the late 90's. I was hoping to see him as the "bitchy" one because as David Vickers, he has a HUGE talent. It will be fun to see him as a quiet guy who is the support system for another "bitch" in prime time. Hopefully he and Marcia Cross will get lots of scenes together. As for Marc's politics and weight.....most Republicans are delusional (ok all) and it's nice to see him put his view of America on TV (chuckle). As for the weight, he could probably find some young intern to "assist" him in his needs, a la Merv Griffin.
Posted by: Rob In Cali | Aug 18, 2007 7:32:22 PM
Tuc Watkins is hot. Desperate Housewives is not. Maybe Tuc can spice things up for this show.
Posted by: Houndentenor | Aug 18, 2007 9:15:25 PM
Tuc is a great actor. I am not certain he is gay, and even if he isn't, he is to be commended for his ability to play such diverse roles in so many films (OK, he's gay). His birthday is this week, (08/24), and is alway good to his public. He met a male One Life to Live fan in NYC, where he lives, and was honestly humbled that someone recognized him, and treated him like a human being, not a celebrity (they had coffee together at a java shop). I too, was disappointed in Showtime yanking Beggars & Choosers and bought every VHS (that is all that is available) on ebay of emmy-nominations "for your consideration".
I am very proud of Tampa's own, Shawn Pyfrom, who plays Andrew, Bree's gay son. He is a terrific actor and we love his cattiness with his step-father and Bree's psychosis'.
I think a lot of people lost interest by abc's flat-out LIES about DH and LOST in which they promised "all new episodes", only to present re-hashed "Catch-up" scenes from the season thus far. I know for a fact, MANY viewers felt lied to and betrayed, and did not care about the show anymore. Those, however, were straight people, and we know they have no knowledge nor recognition of good drama!!!
Posted by: GreatDane813 | Aug 20, 2007 10:27:59 PM