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) |
| Statistics | |
| Gender | Male |
| Age | 43 |
| Occupation | Pizzeria owner Former Marketing executive |
| Family | Rodney Scavo (father) Allison Scavo (mother) |
| Spouse | Lynette Scavo |
| Children | Preston & Porter Scavo Parker Scavo Penny Scavo Kayla Huntington (daughter had with ex-girlfriend) |
| Relatives | Penny (aunt) Nora Huntington (ex-girlfriend; deceased) |
| Portrayed by | Doug Savant |
| Created by | Marc Cherry |
Tom Scavo is the name of a fictional character on the ABC television series Desperate Housewives. The character is played by actor Doug Savant.
[edit] History
Tom Scavo is Lynette's husband, who previously was 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.
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Susan Mayer | Lynette Scavo | Bree Van de Kamp Hodge | Gabrielle Solis Marquez | Edie Britt | Mary Alice Young Carlos Solis | Tom Scavo | Orson Hodge | Julie Mayer | Mike Delfino | Andrew Van De Kamp | Danielle Van De Kamp |
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