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It looks like things are getting serious between Desperate Housewives and Brian Austin Green: The ABC soap is giving his newbie character a family.
Sources confirm to me exclusively that Housewives boss Marc Cherry has tapped John Schneider to play the father of Green’s Bree-crushing contractor, Keith.
I’m told Schneider will appear in multiple episodes, beginning with this season’s seventh.
Housewives kicks off its seventh season on Sept. 26.
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