Desperate Housewives star explains why he didn’t come out as straight while playing gay

Desperate Housewives star Doug Savant has revealed why he didn’t come out as straight while playing a gay character. 

Savant played Melrose Place gay character Matt Fielding, a Los Angeles social worker, from 1992 to 1997, but never revealed during his time on the show that he was straight in real life.

Joining former co-stars Daphne Zuniga, Laura Leighton and Courtney Thorne-Smith on their It’s Still the Place podcast, Savant, who played Lynette Scavo’s husband Tom in Desperate Housewives, discussed why he chose not to reveal that he was heterosexual.

“When we were shooting all those things and the trailers for the show, I said to Sam, our publicist: ‘Do you care to talk about how we’re going to handle this going forward, that there was a gay character?’

Doug Savant

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