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“I was fired from ‘Desperate Housewives,'” Jesse Metcalfe, who starred arsenic hunky gardener John Rowland successful Season 1 of nan ABC series, said connected Tuesday’s section of Amanda Hirsch’s “Not Skinny But Not Fat” podcast.
“After nan first play they didn’t really cognize wherever other to return my storyline,” he explained.
In nan show — which ran for 8 seasons from 2004 until 2012 — Metcalfe, now 47, portrayed a teen who was having an matter pinch Eva Longoria’s character, Gabrielle Solis.
“Our creator, Marc Cherry, was like, ‘This isn’t Desperate House Gardeners, This is Desperate Housewives, truthful unluckily you’re not going to beryllium a bid regular moving guardant connected nan show,'” Metcalfe said connected nan podcast.
“At that clip I had been offered [the lead domiciled in] ‘John Tucker Must Die’ from 20th Century Fox, truthful I was like, hey, cool, nary large deal. I’m going to beryllium a movie star.”
“I was conscionable benignant of riding nan wave, you know, because that show really collapsed maine and I had everything coming astatine maine and I was conscionable enjoying it,” he recalled.
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After he was fto spell from nan ABC show, nan character was brought backmost arsenic an intermittent impermanent prima successful respective of nan pursuing seasons.
Metcalfe’s capacity arsenic nan steamy young gardener quickly catapulted nan personage to heartthrob position and earned him 3 Teen Choice Award nominations successful 2005 for TV actor, TV breakout capacity and prime hottie.
He took location nan trophy for breakout star.
In 2021, Metcalfe revealed that breaking retired arsenic a activity awesome connected “Desperate Housewives” near him emotion pressured to keep up his physique.
“Being a activity awesome is very overmuch astir nan roles that you play and my roles put maine up connected a pedestal,” he told Vice’s i-D mag astatine nan time.
“But my quality was besides criticized and picked isolated by a batch of group successful nan media. Having your garment disconnected successful each section of ‘Housewives’ brought a batch of pressure.”
“You person to enactment successful nan champion style you tin and past betwixt projects, everyone expects you to enactment successful that style 24/7, 365,” he continued. “That’s not realistic. That’s why paparazzi drawback actors betwixt projects looking ‘out of shape’ — they’re taking clip disconnected and that includes nan gym.”
