Lee Tegersen, for six seasons compelling as Tobias Beecher, convicted of Vehicular Manslaughter on HBO’s unflinching prison drama Oz, has resurfaced on the last two episodes of the Alphabet Network’s Desperate Housewives. What’s more, the good-looking actor, frequently in scenes of full frontal nudity and Brokeback-like prison sex on Oz, is playing a clean, sober, and straight recovering alcoholic on Housewives.

Tegersen’s character, Peter McMillian, was Bree’s Alcoholics Anonymous sponsor in his first episode (March 26).  In his second Desperate outing (April 2), Lee as Peter fled the Van De Kamp house after Bree kissed him.  It’s not that McMillian is immune to the charms of Wisteria Lane’s hottest redhead. As it happens, Peter is not only a former alcoholic, he’s also a recovering sex-aholic who’s not quite ready for dating.

In his real, not reel, life, Lee Tegersen, 40, is rumored to be dating 60-year-old Cher.  I say, “What’s a mere 20-year age difference between lovers if your squeeze is a show business legend?”

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