Doug Savant Looks Forward to His "Moment of the Summer"

In the upcoming season of Desperate Housewives, everything on Wisteria Lane is about to change as the story line is fast forwarded five years.  While the main characters will stay the same, the children of the picture-perfect street are all being replaced with older kids — including Tom and Lynette Scavo’s four children.  Actor Doug Savant — who plays Tom on the hit show — is "devastated" that "our children" had to learn the ropes of Hollywood at such a young age saying, "Once you get a job, you’ll ultimately be fired or the show will end and you will lose your job!"

While Tom is not looking forward to starting the new season without his TV sons, he is excited about his upcoming "moment of the summer" with his real-life 7-year-old son Jack Douglas.

My favorite moment of the summer will be this weekend — a baseball team I am coaching of 7- and 8-year-olds is playing in the Pinto World Series.  That accomplishment — that our kids have gone that far — will be my moment of the summer.

Doug’s wife and Jack’s mother is actress Laura Leighton who together also have daughter Lucy Jane, 3.  Doug has two daughters — Arianna Josephine, 16, and Madeline Marie, 15 — with his ex-wife Dawn Dunkin.

Source: OK! Magazine; Photo by Bob Riha Jr/WireImage.

Comments

I love him, he’s among my favorite people from DH (the others are Susan and Orsen) I can’t wait for the new season to start.
Laura was my favorite on MP.

- Molly on July 21st, 2008

Love them both, recently watched the first two series of Melrose Place and I could’t believe these two ended up together really.
Don’t really watch Desperate Housewives but the episodes I have seen were good.
The two little twins on the show are lovely to will be a shame they have to leave.

- amy on July 22nd, 2008

Isn’t common practice to “age” kids on soaps and dramas? I’ve only known sitcom kids to “grow up” on camera. Anyway, the only kid I’ll really miss is Parker Scavo (the non-twin little boy) cuz he was sooo cute and a total sweetheart. As for Tom’s FIFTH child, Kayla (from Tom’s past relationship with the late Nora Huntington)… I hope that whole issue is squashed b/c it added nothing but annoyance to the show. That’s my two cents.

- Leigh on July 22nd, 2008

Nice guy. We played his son’s baseball team in the World Series over the weekend and sent them packing. They lost horribly to us, but took it gracefully and he even posed for a few pics and autographs as well after the game. His wife was there as well. Both very nice people.

- Lady Anne on July 22nd, 2008