Move over "Housewives" — there are
some new divas on the block!
Season 4 of ABC's hit Desperate
Housewives promises to be the wildest year
yet — as the show introduces a gay couple
that stirs up trouble on Wisteria Lane.
Stop reading if you don't want to know
more about the sizzling new plot lines —
because The ENQUIRER has an exclusive
sneak peek at the new season, which starts
Sept. 30.
"The fur will fly and the cat claws will
be razor sharp when the show's newest
characters — gay couple Bob and Lee — buy
a house on America's most talked about
street," said a show insider. "Introducing a gay couple shakes up the
neighborhood."
Ultra-sweet Bob — played by soap opera
hunk Tuc Watkins — and super-catty Lee
— Judging Amy star Kevin Rahm — manage
to make some friends, but they clash with
Teri Hatcher's character Susan Mayer when
they install a "huge metal sculpture that also
serves as a water fountain for their front
lawn," according to the source.
"Not only is it ugly and gigantic, but it drives
Susan nuts because when it turns on, the
spouting water makes a loud clanging noise
that wakes her up. She immediately starts a
campaign to drive the new couple out of the
neighborhood."
Homophobic prejudices also rise to the
surface as some residents of Wisteria Lane
feel their "picture perfect suburbia is now
ruined when the gays move in."
Also joining the cast is Emmy winner Dana
Delany, who'll be playing creepy Katherine
Mayfair — a woman with a lurid past who left
the neighborhood 12 years earlier.
And it doesn't take long for the housewives
to uncover the Mayfair family's dark secret,
which explodes in a midseason episode,
the source said.
Katherine, a "perfectionist" and "control
freak," butts heads with everyone — including
Felicity Huffman's character Lynette Scavo,
who is undergoing chemotherapy for her
cancer. Katherine also crosses paths with
Marcia Cross' Bree Van De Kamp over a
recipe for lemon meringue pie "and the
two literally battle it out with their kitchen
spatulas!" the source said.
Bree continues to pretend she's pregnant
in order to cover for her pregnant teenage
daughter Danielle who was sent to a convent
— and Bree waltzes around the neighborhood
with padding on her stomach as she shops
for baby clothes.
The source revealed that Jesse Metcalfe will
return to the show this season to play hunky
gardener John Rowland, who tries to woo
back Eva Longoria's character Gabrielle.
Meanwhile, newlyweds Gabrielle and Victor
Lang — played by John Slattery — are still
fighting because Gabrielle knows that he
married her only to help his political career,
says the source.
And Gabrielle continues to have an affair
with her ex-husband Carlos, played by
Ricardo Antonio Chavira.
Another big change this season: Eva
Longoria, who married basketball star Tony
Parker in July, is now billed as Eva Longoria
Parker!