‘Desperate Housewives’ costars Jesse Metcalfe and Eva Longoria reunite
Jesse Metcalfe And Eva Longoria had a nice reunion more than twenty years after theirs Desperate housewives characters broke up.
‘There’s nothing like running into an old friend! I love you @evalongoria ❤️,” Metcalfe, 45, captioned a Monday, Jan. 8 Instagram photo of himself and Longoria, 48, embracing.
Longoria reposted the photo via her own Instagram Story, writing, “Reunited in Vegas!”
Metcalfe and Longoria played John Rowland and Gabrielle Solis, respectively, in the ABC drama. Their characters had a steamy affair during season 1 when Gabrielle tried to spice up her suburban life by seducing her teenage gardener, John.
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Gabrielle’s then-husband, Carlos Solis (Ricardo Antonio Chavira), was often away on business and only discovered the betrayal in the dramatic season 1 finale, when Metcalfe uttered the memorable line, “Didn’t you think it was strange that you had the only lawn on Wisteria Lane that needed tending?” mowed three times a week?”
Desperate housewives premiered in 2004 and Metcalfe made his final appearance on the show during season 6 in 2009, three years prior to the series finale in 2012.
Metcalfe and Longoria reconnected in August 2015.
“Look who I met today! My favorite gardener!!!! [sic] #DesperateHousewives #OneOfMyFavPeople,” Longoria captioned one Instagram photo of the couple at the time.
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Metcalfe opened up about his dynamic with Longoria during an October 2020 interview with Hello! magazine.
“We don’t have that close contact, but whenever we see each other, it’s like not a day has gone by since we’ve seen each other,” he told the outlet. “She’s been such a great friend and we follow each other on social media and I see where she is and how she spends her time and she just seems to love motherhood and I love watching her son grow up through Instagram.”
Longoria, who shares son Santiago, 5, with husband José Bastoncalled her and metcalfe’s on-screen romance “iconic” during a july 2023 interview with Entertainment tonight. “People still come up to me and ask me, ‘Tell me about the gardener.’ I’m like, ‘Jesse is amazing,'” she gushed.
The actress also noted that although she and Metcalfe’s characters had a large age gap, they are almost the same age in real life.
“He was 25 and played 16, and I was 27 and played 40. So Jesse and I were actually the same age, so we didn’t feel weird,” she said. “It was definitely a lot better chemistry and better for the story that it was Jesse.”
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As for her other one Desperate housewives costars, Longoria shut down rumors that there was tension between the women in the cast during a November 2023 appearance on Dax Shephard‘s “Armchair Expert” podcast.
‘I remember it was already a story about women then. Because there were all these shows with men on the air, and no one said, ‘They’re fighting!’” Longoria said before explaining that the cast was oblivious to outside drama.
“Everything that happened outside of the show, we were like, ‘What?’ We could never come up and really get outside of ourselves,” she recalled. “We were alone on set. … I remember that sound was outside of us. We were in such a bubble with our crew and with each other.”