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Morning Man Encore: Tuc Watkins!

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Originally posted Mar 26, 2009

God bless America!

You may recognize Tuc Watkins as one-half of the gay couple that resides on Wisteria Lane. But this oh-so handsome and gifted actor has been woefully underused on ABC’s Desperate Housewives if you ask me.

It’s a good thing he has a day job.

Tuc has played the delicious role of David Vickers – the lying, scheming gold-digging, multi-married con man – on the daytime soap One Life to Live for more than a decade. He has been able to display both his amazing body (writers often find a reason for David to be shirtless) and his amazing comic chops.

“If soap opera is meat and potatoes, I provide the broccoli robb,” Tuc told me when we spoke at the Daytime Emmys last year. “It’s so much fun to play David Vickers. He’s the world’s stupidest smart guy.”

Tuc first appeared as David in 1996 and in the last 12 years, has taken leave from the show to do such things as The Mummy film, the terrific Showtime series Beggars and Choosers and the classic gay indie film I Think I Do…

But he has always been able to return to David: “He’s the kind of guy who can kind of come and go because you never know where he’s gonna be. It’s wherever the next scam is. There aren’t a lot of scams you can run in Pennsylvania (where the soap is set). He can go back there to kind of fill the coffers but you’ve got to go out into the world and experience other things in order to bring something new and different back.”

But my favorite role of Tuc’s was on Showtime’s late, great series Beggars and Choosers which cast him as television executive Malcom Laffley. Malcolm had to come out of the closet to clear himself of sexual harassment charges levied against him by a woman.

Beggars and Choosers was one of the greatest shows I ever had the opportunity to be on,” Tuc said. “I loved that show and I loved playing that character. It was so well-written and I really wish that it had gone on 20 years. Everybody on it was great, we were all huddled together up there in Vancouver and only had each other to lean on. It was a real shame after the second year that the show kind of fell though the cracks.”

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  1. I agree about Beggars & Choosers, it was a delicious soapy behind-the-scenes series about a television network. I was lucky enough to purchase 3 never-offered (except to cast) VHS tapes of the first season. Tuc was really terrific, as he is in everything he does. I sent him a fan letter with a request for an autographed pic (this is in the early oughts) to his NYC address, but he never responded. I think maybe I came on too strong about why he won’t come out. Oh well.

  2. Tuc is all man, strong and fierce with that sexy smile. I just melt from just the sight of him with those sultry eyes. (sigh) Picture him arm in arm or holding hands with you while walking down the street. (sigh)

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