Fired: Neal McDonough, with Desperate Housewives co-star Nicolette Sheridan, has been replaced on TV show Scoundrels after refusing to film sex scenes Former Desperate Housewives star Neal McDonough has been reportedly fired from a $1million starring role for refusing to film sex scenes.
The actor was replaced three days into shooting of the series Scoundrels for refusing to engage in passionate love scenes with is co-star Virginia Madsen.
Sources told Hollywood columnist Nikki Finke that the 44-year-old actor believed the scenes clashed with his Catholic views and reputation as a family man.
McDonough, who is married with three young children, is known to have refused to film any sex scenes for Desperate Housewives.
He played the deranged husband of sexy Edie, the character played by Nicolette Sheridan, and was killed off in 2009.
Work on the Scoundrels series was to have marked his return to TV.
Snubbed: The actor refused to engage in passionate love scenes with his Scoundrels co-star Virginia Madsen'It has cost him jobs, but the man is sticking to his principles,' a source told Finke, who writes the respected Deadline Hollywood column.
Production on the ABC TV series had already begun when McDonough is said to have objected to the love scenes.
One source said McDonough even refused an on screen kiss with his attractive co-star, best known for her Oscar nominated role in Sideways.
Producers at ABC are said to be furious as McDonough was aware of the on-screen lovemaking having been sent the script weeks before filming began.
He was replaced by actor David James Ellicot. ABC cited cast changes for Ellicot's introduction into the leading role and did not comment on the reason behind McDonough's departure.
But a source on the show wrote on Finke's blog: 'It wasn't just "heated love scenes" - he wouldn't do any kissing whatsoever, even though those scenes were clearly in the scripts he read before taking the role.
'He didn't tell the producers that cast him on this show that he had any issues with this until shooting started. So unprofessional, and such a shame because he is a great talent.'
McDonough, who is from a strict Catholic family and one of six siblings from Barnstable, Massachusetts, shot to fame in the TV series Band of Brothers.
He trained at the London Academy of Music and Dramatic Art and has appeared in more than 20 films, including Minority Report with Tom Cruise and Clint Eastwood's Flags of our Fathers.
A spokesman for McDonough has refused to comment.
source: dailymail
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