{"id":140984,"date":"2024-12-29T23:01:25","date_gmt":"2024-12-29T23:01:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/2024\/12\/29\/james-denton-loved-his-desperate-housewives-send-off\/"},"modified":"2024-12-29T23:01:25","modified_gmt":"2024-12-29T23:01:25","slug":"james-denton-loved-his-desperate-housewives-send-off","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/2024\/12\/29\/james-denton-loved-his-desperate-housewives-send-off\/","title":{"rendered":"James Denton loved his Desperate Housewives &#8216;send-off&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"byline\">\n<p>        <time itemprop=\"datePublished\" content=\"2024-12-29\" datetime=\"1735513285\" pubdate=\"\">29 December 2024<\/time>\n    <\/p>\n<p>James Denton relished his &#8220;big send-off&#8221; from &#8216;Desperate Housewives&#8217;.<\/p>\n<p>                            <\/p>\n<p class=\"image-caption landscape\">James Denton starred on the show between 2004 and 2012<\/p>\n<p>The 61-year-old actor played Mike Delfino on the hit TV drama between 2004 and 2012, and James didn&#8217;t have any qualms when Mike was killed in a drive-by shooting during season eight of the show.<\/p>\n<p>He told PEOPLE: &#8220;I love that people are really sweet. Almost everyone I talk to comments on the fact that they cried when Delfino got shot, but it was set up brilliantly by the writer Matt Berry and Marc Cherry.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>James acknowledges &#8216;Desperate Housewives&#8217; had a reputation for being &#8220;salacious&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>But the actor also suggested that the perception is actually misguided.<\/p>\n<p>\nHe said: &#8220;The guys joked the entire run, &#8216;Who was gonna get killed,&#8217; you know, because for all of the talk about &#8216;Housewives&#8217; being so salacious, there wasn&#8217;t that much sex &#8211; but there was a lot of murder.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>\n&#8216;Desperate Housewives&#8217; also starred the likes of Teri Hatcher, Felicity Huffman and Eva Longoria, and Eva previously admitted that the show changed her life entirely.<\/p>\n<p>\nThe brunette beauty &#8211; who played Gabrielle Solis on the show &#8211; said on &#8216;Today with Hoda and Jenna&#8217;: &#8220;It was a decade of my life and it was the No. 1 show in the world. <\/p>\n<p>\n&#8220;I just remember the first time I went to London, I had never been to London before and there was a big crowd of people outside the hotel, and I was like, \u2018Gosh, who\u2019s here? Is Bono here? Somebody important must be here!\u2019 And the driver was like, \u2018\u2026 You\u2026\u2019 And I was like, \u2018No, somebody like, big. Like a big deal!&#8217;<\/p>\n<p>\n&#8220;And he didn\u2019t understand that I didn\u2019t understand. The global reach of that show, at the time where there was no streaming.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><!-- Pagination --><\/p>\n<p><!-- playbuzz --><br \/>\n<!-- end playbuzz--><\/p>\n<p><!-- \n\n<div data-cn-project=\"femalefirst\">\n    \n<\/div>\n\n --><\/p>\n<p><!-- Outbrain { date: 2018\/06\/08 } --><br \/>\n<!-- Outbrain { date: 2018\/06\/08 } --><\/p>\n<p>    <!-- Outbrain { date: 2018\/06\/08 } --><br \/>\n    <!-- Outbrain { date: 2018\/06\/08 } --><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.femalefirst.co.uk\/celebrity\/james-denton-loved-desperate-housewives-send-1411328.html?f=rss\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>29 December 2024 James Denton relished his &#8220;big send-off&#8221; from &#8216;Desperate Housewives&#8217;. 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