Gale Harold's Return to 'Desperate Housewives" Still Up in the Air

According to the latest reports, Gale Harold's ("Queer as Folk," "Vanished") return to "Desperate Housewives" following his October 14 motorcycle accident remains up in the air and his character will remain out of sight, for the time being.

Earlier this week, when the show came back from its Christmas hiatus, the viewers could hear Harold's voice during a phone call with his girlfriend Susan (Teri Hatcher) which explained his character Jackson's absence (he was visiting a friend out of town).



Although the actor, who suffered some serious injuries in the accident, is recovering well, it will take him a little more time to come back to Wisteria Lane. According to his spokesperson, rumors that he would not come back or come back next year are not true.

Although I personally love Gale Harold, I am somewhat indifferent about his "Desperate" character, who seems to have gone through minor changes since his original short appearance in the final seconds of last May's season-ending cliffhanger.



According to spoilers, Jackson (Harold) will ask Susan to join him and leave Wisteria Lane for good. Since the show is expected to run for at least 4 more seasons with Hatcher on board, Susan will obviously have little desire to abandon her best friends.

HotPix & Spoilers: Gale Harold Gets 'Desperate'

"Queer as Folk" star Gale Harold got only 5 seconds in last May's 4th season finale of ABC's international blockbuster "Desperate Housewives." But they were the final 5 shocking seconds of the episode. Sunday, September 28, he gets a lot more action with Teri Hatcher as an "even juicier" season of "Desperate Housewives" begins.

Those who managed not to confuse Harold with actor Nathan Fillion, who guest starred last season as Dana Delany's cheating but protective husband, realized he played a new character, who romances Susan Mayer (Hatcher) in 2013, the year the show is infamously leaping to in the upcoming season.



Questions were being asked about Mike's (James Denton) fate. Why is Susan kissing an unknown man in her house, having married Mike in 2007 and given birth to their son the following year? Did something awful happen to the loving plumber, who battled addiction to painkillers this year?

***SPOILERS***

According to early spoilers, Susan will try to hide her relationship with Gale Harold's character, whose name is Jackson, but the truth will of course soon come out. Those who are worried about Mike will be happy to know he and Susan are only divorced and James Denton will be back as regular.




The storylines will deal with Jackson's and Susan's relationship and how it affects her raising her son MJ as well as Mike trying to be involved in his son's life. Jackson will have a secret of his own.

As for the divorce, according to unconfirmed rumors (therefore do take this with a grain of salt), Mike may have accidentally killed someone, leading Susan to a painful decision about her marriage.

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Gale Harold Joins "Desperate Housewives" (Spoilers Inside)

Brian Kinney's back! Former "Queer as Folk" star Gale Harold, who most recently guest starred on ABC's "Grey's Anatomy" and fronted FOX's failed abduction thriller "Vanished" in the fall of 2006, joins "Desperate Housewives" in the May 18 finale. Unfortunately, he won't be playing Andrew Van De Kamp's new sugar daddy. Bummer.

According to a TV Guide report, Harold will play a "quick-witted, charming and buttoned-down suburbanite" along the lines of a young Jack Lemmon who "could return next season in a recurring capacity."

Last week, Kristin of E!Online wrote that "we'll meet a new character by the name of Ken in the finale. He'll initially come off as the perfect, straight-laced husband type. However, he'll have something to do with next year's big mystery."

According to casting sides, in the second half of the May 18 finale (simply titled "Free"), Ken approaches his overprotective wife Linda standing in the schoolyard, leaning against a play structure, watching their son MJ.

Ken was called to the scene by the school principal to calm Linda down and get her to go home. Linda is filled with fear on her son's first day of school, but Ken's loving and confident manner gives her the strength to let her son out of her sight.

Would the mystery have something to do with why Linda became so overprotective? Or, if the show shifts five years into the future - as it has been rumored - will we find this family in a very different situation and wonder how they got there?

In any event, I applaud the casting of Gale Harold who has a very loyal fanbase and may bring additional viewers to Wisteria Lane, but I also cautiously hope DH doesn't turn into "Lost" laced with flashbacks of the 5 years gone by.

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