Pictured: Lucy Liu, Kate Walsh, Teri Hatcher, Vanessa Williams, Kristen Chenoweth, Natasha Henstridge, Nicollette Sheridan, Amy Brenneman, Sarah Chalke, Stacy Keibler and Zach Braff.
Teri Hatcher has raised $35,000 for children and adults affected by poverty in Kenya.
The Desperate Housewives star and daughter Emerson Rose,10, presented the donation during a two-week trip to Nairobi. During the trip, Hatcher took her daughter to a boarding school. And the star reveals the schoolchildren were so embarrassed to talk to her, they used her daughter as a go-between.
She says, “They loved my daughter. We talked about math. We joked. They would say, ‘What subjects do you like in school? What’s your hardest subject? What do you like? What do you do? What’s your favorite thing to do?’ We talked about sports. We talked about who likes science - stuff like that.”
Teri Hatcher has hit out at the producers of Desperate Housewives for axing her onscreen daughter from the show.
The actress was devastated when she discovered Andrea Bowen would not be a part of the regular cast for the next season of the hit show.
In the finale, which aired on Sunday, the cast was transported five years into the future - and Bowen’s character Julie was revealed to be a student at Princeton University.
As a result, the character will be absent from the next season of the show - and Hatcher thinks that is a mistake.
She tells USA Today, “She (Bowen) is somebody who I have done the majority of my work with for four years. I’ve watched her grow up from 13 to 18, get a driver’s license. I can’t begin to tell you the depths of how impossibly hard it is for me to think about her not being there. This is a totally producer/network decision that I have nothing to do with, and I guess I can go out on a limb and say I don’t support.”
It wasn’t easy for Teri Hatcher to get up on stage and perform Carrie Underwood’s “Before He Cheats” on Wednesday night’s Idol Gives Back special.
“Singing on Idol Gives Back … now that was nerve-wracking!” Hatcher told Usmagazine.com after taping her performance Sunday.
Her Desperate Housewives costar James Denton played the guitar.
“She’s brilliant,” he raved to Us. “She did Cabaret on Broadway — people forget that she’s a great singer!”
Hatcher said Denton had a hand in picking the song.
“Jamie texted me and said, ‘I just heard this song, and I think it would be great for you,’” she told Us.
“And not 10 minutes earlier, my daughter and I had heard it on the radio, and she said to me, ‘You’d be really good at this song!’” Hatcher added. “So I told Jamie, ‘It was really weird that my daughter said the same thing, so I guess that’s what we should sing.’”
After her performance, Underwood came out on stage and congratulated her.
Said Hatcher, “She was very sweet. I didn’t put her on the spot or anything!”
