Desperate Housewives stars to be paid £12million each in two-year deal

‘Desperate Housewives’ stars Teri Hatcher, Felicity Huffman, Marcia Cross and Eva Longoria will pick up a staggering cheque of £12 million to stay on Wisteria Lane, making them the highest paid actresses on US television.

After months of intense behind-the-scenes negotiations, the four actresses have finalised the eight-figure deals for two more series.The actresses will pick up a staggering £250,000-an-episode for the eighth and ninth seasons of the smash-hit show.’We had to get the girls back. The show simply earns too much money to stop making it,’ said a source.The foursome currently take home around £180,000-an-episode.A source said: ‘Like in previous salary renegotiations, Hatcher brokered her deal separately from Huffman, Cross and Longoria.’Additionally, holding up the final stretch of the marathon talks was the fact that Marcia Cross hired a new lawyer about a week ago.With Hatcher, Huffman, Longoria and Cross on board, as well as the newest housewife, Vanessa Williams, who will also return next season, the only question remaining was the extent of creator/executive producer Cherry’s involvement. He had said he was planning to leave ‘Desperate Housewives’ after the current seventh season. With his new ABC project ‘Hallelujah’ picked up to pilot, ‘Desperate Housewives’ executive producer Bob Daily will helm the show while Cherry is working on his pilot and is expected to continue to do so if ‘Hallelujah’ is picked up for a full series.Despite slipping in the ratings from its heyday, ‘Desperate Housewives’ is still a huge success in the USA as well as worldwide.

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