Exclusive: Gale Harold Gets Desperate

• Apr 28, 2008 10:08 PM ET
• by Michael Ausiello

A Gale force is about to blow through Wisteria Lane, but this time the culprit isn't Mother Nature.

Sources confirm to me exclusively that former Queer as Folk cad Gale Harold has booked a potentially recurring role on Desperate Housewives. The Vanished actor - who turned up last November as a swastika-sportin' medic in a two-part Grey's Anatomy - will play a quick-witted, charming and buttoned-down suburbanite. Picture a young Jack Lemmon, only without a cross-dressing Tony Curtis dragging him down.

He'll be introduced in the May 18 finale and could return next season in a recurring capacity.