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Desperate Housewives: The Blind Items of Wisteria Lane

FluentlyForward

CAKE MEDIA

Entertainment News, News

4.52.4K Ratings

🗓️ 22 January 2024

⏱️ 72 minutes

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Summary

This week we dive into the iconic show Desperate Housewives. We talk about how the show was started, and dive into the many rumors and allegations surrounding this cast. From the alleged feud between Teri Hatcher and the other women, to the show creator Marc Cherry being sued by a cast member and more, we get into it all! Introduction 0:00 Background of the show 4:52 True crime story that inspired the show (trigger warning) 8:59 The feuds of the show 18:39 Eva Longoria 31:23 Teri Hatcher40:23 Marcia Cross 49:21 Felicity Huffman 55:51 Nicolette Sheridan 1:03:49 James Denton 1:09:07 Jesse Metcalf vs. DeuxMoi 1:09:40 Factor, America’s #1 Ready-To-Eat Meal Delivery Service, can help you fuel up fast for breakfast, lunch, and dinner with chef-prepared, dietitian-approved ready-to-eat meals delivered straight to your door. Head to factormeals.com/fluently50 and use code fluently50 to get 50% off. Phyla is a clinically-proven acne breakthrough that targets the root cause of acne: bad bacteria, without eliminating all of the good bacteria on your skin. Get 25% Off Your First Order Of Phyla by going to phylabiotics.com and typing in the code FORWARD25 at checkout. That’s why Modern Fertility offers an easy and affordable way to test your fertility hormones at home with a simple finger prick. Right now, Modern Fertility is offering our listeners $20 off the test when you go to ModernFertility.com/fluently. That means your test will cost $159, which is a fraction of what it would cost at a fertility clinic Nuuly is a subscription clothing rental service that’s all about helping you have fun + get creative with your style. Right now you can get $20 off your first month of Nuuly when you sign up with the code FLUENTLY20 at nuuly.com.

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0:00.0

Hello everybody and welcome back to another episode of fluently forward today we are

0:05.8

going to be covering the TV show Desperate Housewives and I'm so excited people

0:11.5

have been asking for this one for like I don't know probably a year now

0:15.3

I was excited to do it. I thought maybe our audience is like too young and they haven't seen

0:20.8

Desperate Housewives because it started I mean it aired from 2004 to 2012 but a lot of people have seen it and it is a great show to do for this episode because it is juicy like the girls on set were fighting there was like a wide variety of feuds heavy drama

0:37.7

Stuff that has continued individual drama like it's just gonna be fun. It going to be a mess and I kind of love when life

0:45.2

imitates art and a lot of these feuds that you see in the show also happened in real life

0:50.7

which I just find it so nice because it's like a shortcut to gossip, you know, like it's easy to recall these things.

0:58.4

So I have only really seen like the first two seasons and then I jumped back in and I've been watching

1:03.5

season seven because it features the fabulous Vanessa Williams if you are a

1:09.1

member over on Patreon.com slash fluently forward, we did a ugly Betty episode a couple

1:15.0

weeks ago on there and Vanessa Williams as Will Aminina Slater. She's one of the

1:19.1

best all-time characters and somebody was asking over on an Instagram

1:22.8

Q&A that I did they were like man I miss those old shows like Gossip girl the

1:27.9

OC back in the day and I was like yeah it's because we need a good

1:31.8

villainous country to be honest

1:35.1

bitch and we're missing that like remember when they did the reboot of gossip girl

1:39.7

I knew everyone was like socially conscious and morally just it was so boring.

1:46.0

It was just like you really need a true villain and not a villain who's like you know I'm gonna be I don't know I don't know how to describe

1:56.7

it because obviously I don't want to see like Stalin on TV but you just want someone

2:01.5

with a little bit of edge and let me tell you there was some edge and desperate housewives.

2:05.6

I also find two things very fun about the show.

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