Drea’s A “Desperate Housewife”

A taste of Italian spice is coming to Wisteria Lane this fall, as a new family moves in.

Michael Ausiello of Entertainment Weekly broke the news this afternoon that Emmy-winning “Sopranos” actress Drea de Matteo will join the cast of “Desperate Housewives” this fall as the matriarch of an Italian family that also includes “her landscape designer husband and their tightly wound son.”

With Edie Britt gone, the series could definitely use a new vamp on the block, and Drea certainly fills the bill. While the actress has never been a “housewife” in real life, she became engaged to longtime BF Shooter Jennings earlier this month, when he proposed to her onstage during a show in Utica, NY. The couple have an 18-month-old daughter named Alabama Gypsyrose.

I’m a huge fan of “Housewives,” and Drea is one of my favorite actresses, so I’m totally looking forward to the new season.  Especially after the vast wasteland this summer’s TV is turning out to be.

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