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'Desperate Housewives' boy toy makes leap to big screen.
Byline: David Hiltbrand
PHILADELPHIA _ God's gift to women enters the Four Seasons clutching a generic baseball cap. Presumably it's an emergency disguise, something to slap on his head so he can slip away incognito if an estrogen riot breaks out.
A full-scale, women-gone-wild meltdown is a very real possibility when Jesse Metcalfe is around. It's like Elvis has entered the building.
"From time to time, it seems like I have a pretty strong reaction from the ladies," the 27-year-old actor says, with understatement. "I guess that's not a bad thing."
Ever since he created a sensation as the randy teenage gardener John Rowland on "Desperate Housewives," playing boy-toy to Eva Longoria, pop culture has positioned Metcalfe as true north on the sex compass.
He thought he was used to frantic female fans after four years _ most of them shirtless _ on NBC's steamy soap "Passions." "But `Desperate Housewives' ...
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