Eva Longoria looked back on her time as Gabrielle Solis in the hit ABC show 'Desperate Housewives.'

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Eva Longoria looked back on her time as Gabrielle Solis in the hit ABC show 'Desperate Housewives.'

First airing in 2004 and concluding its eight-season run in 2012, one of the more controversial plotlines was Gabby's affair with her teenage gardener, John (played by Jesse Metcalfe).