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‘Desperate Housewives’ star comes out

Actor Tuc Watkins. Getty Images

TORONTO – Actor Tuc Watkins, best known for his roles on One Life to Live and Desperate Housewives, has come out as a gay man — and a single father of two.

The 46-year-old star opened up about his orientation during an interview with Marie Osmond on her U.S. cable talk show, Marie. The episode airs Monday.

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Watkins, who played gay lawyer Bob Hunter on Desperate Housewives, told Osmond: “A lot of people at some point in their lives think, ‘Am I going to be a parent? Do I want to be a parent?’ And 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 and the Chocolate Factory was going to be the best movie of all time.

“So far,” he added, “I’ve been right about all three.”

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Watkins said he’s the proud father of four-month-old twins Catchen and Curtis, who were born via a surrogate.

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