“Desperate Housewives” hunk Jesse Metcalfe traded in his gardening tools for dancing shoes for the 29th season of “Dancing with the Stars”.
Production had previously courted the “John Tucker Must Die” and “Dallas” actor twice, but the timing never seemed right. Metcalfe believed there was a stigma attached to reality television… but those days are over. “It was very taboo for a ‘serious actor’ to be participating in anything like this,” Metcalfe tells ET Canada over the phone. “Since then, I feel the entertainment landscape has really shifted.
With the popularity of YouTube and TikTok Stars crossing over into scripted television and film, it’s wide open right now to do whatever you feel like doing.
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