If Desperate Hoսsewives were produced today, Eva Longoria acknowledges that the program would be canceled
Eva Longoria has stated that Desperate Housewives would be ‘cancelled’ if the dark-comedy were to be on screens in the modern day.
The star, 48, played conniving but loveable supermodel Gabrielle Solis on the ABC television series which ran from 2004 to 2012, and for which she received Golden Globe and Screen Actors Guild Award nominations.
Storylines and behind-the-scenes snippets left jaws dropping, including Gabrielle’s statutory rape of her 17-year-old gardener John Rowland (played by Jesse Metcalfe),
a lack of diversity and showrunner Marc Cherry’s spat with cast members.
In light of some of the more shocking elements of the show, Eva conceded that things may not hit screens and could even be cancelled.
She told Entertainment Tonight: ‘I don’t know if we could do the show today. I think we’d get cancelled. ‘I mean, not cancelled on TV but like cancelled in culture because it was so groundbreaking…
‘We said and did so many things that were shocking at the time,’
She recently discussed the prospect of a reboot, to which she said: ‘I’d be the first one to sign up. I’d probably be the only one.’
Eva shot to fame through her portrayal of Isabella Braña on the CBS daytime soap opera The Young and the Restless from 2001 to 2003.
It was then that she nabbed her career-making role as Gabrielle on Desperate Housewives, where she starred for the entirety of the eight series.
She starred alongside Teri Hatcher (Susan Mayer), Felicity Huffman (Lynette Scavo) and Marcia Cross (Bree van de Kamp) in the show.
Her storyline with John Rowland was a main feature of the first series of the show, while off-screen antics hit headlines even further.
The show frequently came under fire for lack of diversity, before Alfre Woodard starred as Betty Applewhite for one series from 2005 to 2006.
It was long reported that the cast had an ongoing spat with Teri — with Nicollette Sheridan branding her ‘the meanest woman in the world’.
