While promoting the return of the soap
One Life To Live, actor Tuc Watkins on Friday came out gay.
The 46-year-old actor is best know for
his roles playing David Vickers on One Life To Live and Bob Hunter
on the ABC nighttime soap Desperate Housewives.
During on appearance on MARIE, the new
syndicated talk show hosted by Marie Osmond, Watkins said his
Desperate Housewives character paralleled his own life in
several ways.
“I played a gay man who was married
to his husband, who was trying to adopt a kid,” Watkins said. “And
in real life, at this same time, I'm a gay single man who was trying
to have a kid through surrogacy. So, life and art were imitating
each other.”
“Did you get the idea from playing
that character?” Osmond asked.
“No, I did not get the idea to have
kids from playing a character on TV.”
“But I mean, did it stimulate the
idea? Or the concept of it?”
“The idea was already there,”
Watkins answered. “When I was young, I knew three things. I knew
I was gay. I knew one day I was going to be a dad. And I knew that
Gene Wilder's Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory was
going to be the best movie of all time. So far, I've been right
about all three.” (The video is embedded on this page. Visit
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