Tom Scavo
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| Tom Scavo | |
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 Doug Savant as Tom |
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| First appearance | Pilot (episode 1.01) |
| Information | |
| Gender | Male |
| Age | 43 |
| Occupation | Pizzeria owner Former Advertising executive |
| Family | Rodney Scavo (father) Allison Scavo (mother) |
| Relationships | Nora Huntington (one night stand, deceased) Annabel Foster (ex-girlfriend) Lynette Scavo (wife) |
| Children | Preston and Porter Scavo (twin sons) Parker Scavo (son) Penny Scavo (daughter) Kayla Huntington (daughter) |
| Relatives | Aunt Penny |
| Portrayed by | Doug Savant |
| Created by | Marc Cherry |
Tom Scavo is a fictional character on the ABC television series Desperate Housewives, played by actor Doug Savant. Tom is married to Lynette Scavo.
[edit] History
| “ | Tonight I will wear sexy perfume, you'll get naked and we'll see who the man is. | ” |
Tom Scavo was previously frequently out of town. He also seemed to be completely oblivious to Lynette's concerns and problems. Tom has been keeping a secret from his wife that only his father, Rodney Scavo, knows about. This is speculated to be his secret child Kayla. Tom decides to become a house-husband after he loses his promotion to Annabel and subsequently quits his job. He seems to genuinely care about Lynette, being prepared to discuss family matters with her if she feels that they need to. Midway through the second season, Tom returns to the workplace, sharing an employer with his wife for the second time. But when Lynette's boss asks Lynette to send instant messages to his wife to help him heat up his sex life, his wife finds out and threatens she'll leave him unless he fires the person who sent the IMs. Feeling he cannot fire Lynette, he tells his wife it was Tom and decides to fire Tom instead. Tom decides to have a chat with Ed; it ends up with Tom punching Ed in the face. Since the necessary grounds of dismissal have been met, Tom is fired. Tom is found out to be meeting another woman after Lynette follows him to Atlantic City and sees first hand what she believes to be them embracing.
It is later found out that this woman is Nora Huntington, a woman with whom he had a one night stand years before he had met Lynette. In the second season finale it is revealed that she had apparently conceived his child, a daughter named Kayla Huntington, from their one night stand. This is news to Tom as the one night stand took place about eleven years ago and Nora had never told him about her pregnancy. Tom later confesses to Lynette that he wishes to go into the business of pizza making. Nora however consistently undermines him behind his back and tries to get Lynette to tell him to drop the idea. Her plan is to show support to Tom, to get him back from Lynette. Tom, however, does not fall for Nora and rejects her seduction. He tells Lynette about it, who threatens Nora never to speak to Tom again.
Tom and Lynette plan to battle for Kayla's custody, but before anything happens, Nora gets shot and dies during the hostage crisis in the local supermarket. Lynette promises the dying woman to take care of Kayla. He then goes on with his pizza place and together with Lynette's help get it ready for the grand opening although not without some troubles along the way. He then tries to celebrate his 9th wedding anniversary with Lynette but it turns into a disaster. Yet they still have anniversary sex when they realise that nothing is worse than the routine.
[edit] Trivia
- Doug Savant was originally credited as a guest, although he appeared in almost every episode in the first season. He became a regular in Season 2.
- It was revealed in Season 2, that the Scavo family has had eight sets of twins over three generations. Lynette wanted to punish Tom for not sharing this information before she got pregnant with Porter and Preston.
- During season 2, Tom nearly went through with having a vasectomy, at the request of Lynette, but he refused because he didn't want to remove the last thing that made him a man, in season 3, Mrs McCluskey reminded Lynette that she was "bad enough" for making him go through with it, but now she "wants to juggle them".
| Desperate Housewives | ||
| Episode list | Season 1 | Season 2 | Season 3 | Season 4 | Official site | ||
| Production | Marc Cherry | Characters | Actors | Awards | Broadcasting | DVD releases | Music | The Game | |
| Main characters |
Susan Mayer | Lynette Scavo | Bree Hodge | Gabrielle Solis | Edie Britt | Mary Alice Young Carlos Solis | Tom Scavo | Julie Mayer | Orson Hodge | Mike Delfino Andrew Van De Kamp | Danielle Van De Kamp | Preston and Porter Scavo | Parker Scavo | Ian Hainsworth |
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| Former main characters |
Betty Applewhite | Rex Van De Kamp | Paul Young | John Rowland | Zach Young | Karl Mayer |
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| Minor characters |
Carolyn Bigsby | Sophie Flickman | Maisy Gibbons | Ida Greenberg | Alma Hodge | Gloria Hodge |
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| Locations | Wisteria Lane | Eagle State | |
