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Eva Longoria has had four wedding shower parties - a family one in Texas, one thrown by the wives of basketball star fiance Tony Parker’s San Antonio Spurs teammates, another hosted by Teri Hatcher for the cast and crew of Desperate Housewives and one at fellow co-star Felicity Huffman’s Los Angeles home.

Eva Longoria and her husband-to-be Tony Parker are getting serious about their summer wedding plans - they’ve started shopping for gift ideas. The couple was spotted making a wedding list at Macy’s in New York after store bosses agreed to let them browse after hours recently.

A friend tells Life & Style magazine, “They took a private two hour tour of the registry department. They’re making it totally affordable, and were just having fun.”

The couple will wed on July 7 in basketball star Parker’s native Paris, France. The wedding is being planned by Mindy Weiss, who also took charge of Jessica Simpson’s nuptials.

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Desperate Housewives has received 2 SAG nominations. The show was nominated for Outstanding Performance by an Ensemble in a Comedy Series, and the fantastically talented Felicity Huffman received a well deserved nod for Outstanding Performance by a Female Actor in a Comedy Series. The 13th Annual Screen Actor’s Guild awards will take place Sunday January 28th.

Congrats to the whole cast and especially Felicity!

Desperate Housewives star Eva Longoria is furious about reports Heather Mills will appear in the TV show and plans to confront creator Marc Cherry.

Cherry recently revealed he’d love to audition the estranged wife of Sir Paul McCartney for a spot in the ABC series, saying, “If Heather Mills can act I’d be interested. It would be fascinating.”

But regular Longoria was livid when asked if Mills would appear in the next season, saying, “Oh God no. Not at all. That’s crazy, it would be completely crazy.

“If she did have a part I would be offended.”

Desperate Housewives received a Golden Globe nomination today in the category for Best Comedy Series. Woohoo, way to go ladies - congrats!

Marcia Cross, who is expecting twins in April, is looking forward to seeing double.

“I won the lottery at my age to have two,” the 44-year-old Desperate Housewives star tells TV’s Extra.

Cross and stockbroker Tom Mahoney, 48, were married in June. In October, Cross announced on The Ellen DeGeneres Show she was expecting twins, saying: “I was sort of blown away that I was having twins, so I just needed a minute to deal with it.”

And there are some things she’s still dealing with. “I was really freaked out and I was terrified – what if I can’t be a good mother to two and somebody would always be feeling left out?” she tells Extra.

Unlike her Housewives character, Bree Van de Kamp, Cross says she’s “domestically challenged with a very big heart.”

She also clears up any rumors of a problem pregnancy – “I haven’t had a thing,” she says, “I am absolutely, 100 percent fine” – but admits, “It’s hard to carry around all that weight. I wake up feeling like me and then I step on the ground and I’m like, whose body is that walking to the bathroom?”

As for this week’s news that her costar, Eva Longoria, is engaged to Tony Parker, Cross says: “She showed me the ring and I screamed. I think I scared them. Tony was there, and it was just fantastic!”

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Heather Mills turns to hit TV show Desperate Housewives to help her cope with the stress of her everyday life. The 38-year-old is currently involved in a bitter divorce from former Beatle Sir Paul McCartney, but finds solace in the show because she closely identifies with the characters.

She tells US news show Extra, “When I’m stressed…I just go and watch their characters. “So I think I have the look of Bree (Marcia Cross), and I think I’m very like Lynette (Felicity Huffman). “I’ve always got, like, soy milk stains all over me and, you know, haven’t been able to brush my hair properly, so I can relate to that.”

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Perhaps desperate times called for desperate measures, but one thing is clear: Whatever sense of desperation compelled Marc Cherry to retake the reins of the show he introduced more than two years ago came just in time.

While it’s difficult to say that any TV show that pulled in more than 22 million viewers per week and finished the season ranked fourth overall was struggling, it was plain to see that ABC’s “Desperate Housewives” lost something in its sophomore season.

“Something” in addition to nearly 1.5 million viewers, that is.

It was its edge. The sense of daring and the unique voice that propelled the show to instant near-classic status was gone. The characters were still there, but the story, the intrigue, the dark humor wasn’t.

Cherry promised a change at the start of the third season. He vowed to be more hands-on, saying that every script would pass across his desk - a responsibility he may have let slip away last year. Two months into the new season, Cherry has once again managed to do what would seem impossible if it hadn’t happened on Wisteria Lane.

He hasn’t just silenced the critics. He’s made us stand up and shout once more about what a fantastic little slice of suburban heaven he and his team of writers have served up.

But it wasn’t easy.

“Housewives” kicked off the season with a premiere watched by more than 24 million people, according to Nielsen Media Research. The audience proceeded to dwindle weekly for a month, reaching a low of 19.7 million for the Oct. 22 episode.

But like a prize-fighter on the brink of a knockout, “Housewives” came back swinging and has owned November sweeps with a shocking Nov. 5 episode in which two characters were gunned down, and a follow-up Sunday that proved the earlier success was more than a one-shot deal.

“Housewives” is now averaging more viewers than any other show this season, holding a slim lead (22 million to 21.98 million viewers) over its old ABC neighbor, “Grey’s Anatomy.”

The turnaround came through the flushing away or fleshing out of storylines that remained from last season.

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