Some of Hollywood’s biggest stars travelled to Las Vegas, Nevada to attend the grand opening of the new resort Fontainebleau on Wednesday night (December 13).
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Eva Longoria is looking back on the rumors and speculation of a feud between the stars of Desperate Housewives.
The 48-year-old actress made an appearance on the Armchair Expert podcast with Dax Shepard and opened up about what it was like facing sexism in the industry which led to rumors of her and her co-stars feuding.
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“I remember, even back then it was a narrative about women, because there were all these shows about men on the air, and nobody was like ‘They’re fighting!’” Eva said.
“They all had such a better handle on fame, on that narrative, y’know, I’m like ‘you guys, they’re saying we’re fighting!’” she recalled about co-stars Teri Hatcher, Felicity Huffman, and Marcia Cross. “And they’re like ‘yeah, well that’s just a narrative they do on women because we’re over 40 in a television show,’ and I’m like ‘yeah…’”
“People ask me that a lot, like, ‘were you guys really fighting?’ and I was like ‘God, I forgot that was a thing,’” Eva said. “it was a thing. It was a big thing!”
Eva also shared how she knew the rumors were a big deal when they were spoofing them on Saturday Night Live, and she said much of the time the rumors wouldn’t even make it to the set.
If you missed it, the actress and director has shared why she doesn’t think Desperate Housewives would work today, and why a reboot is not possible.
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Some of Hollywood’s biggest stars travelled to Las Vegas, Nevada to attend the grand opening of the new resort Fontainebleau on Wednesday night (December 13).
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spoke to a local ABC affiliate in her first interview since being convicted of fraud and serving 11 days in jail in 2019, as part of the Operation Varsity Blues scandal. In the scheme, wealthy parents, also including “Full House” actress Lori Loughlin, paid college admissions guru Rick Singer boatloads of cash to side-step standards and get their kids into elite universities, merit be damned.“It felt like I had to give my daughter a chance at a future,” said Huffman, who is married to fellow actor William H.
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Dax Shepard’s “Armchair Expert” podcast released on Monday, Longoria, 48, took a trip down memory lane, to Wisteria Lane. Shepard, 48, asked how much of the on-set feuding was “factual” and how much “We would now see as just, like, this narrative about women, that there’s no way these women could get along.”Longoria denied rumors about feuding with her co-stars Felicity Huffman, Marcia Cross and Teri Hatcher while they starred on the show, which ran on ABC for eight seasons, from 2004 to 2012. “They all had such a better handle on fame, on that narrative,” Longoria said.
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