New York Post Online Edition, Page Six
Eva’s Naughty Maid Tells All!
GWENDOLINE Yeo, who sizzles as Eva Longoria’s sexed-up maid on “Desperate Housewives,” has a dirty little secret. She was raised as a conservative Catholic girl who never imagined she’d one day play a voracious vixen.
“It’s incredible, but I went from a virgin to a ho’ in one season,” the 26-year-old stunner tells Page Six’s Bill Hoffmann. “I started out as such a sweet, innocent girl, and now I’m doing Eva Longoria’s husband.”
But Yeo, a Singapore native who emigrated with her family to San Francisco and now lives in L.A., admits she got a taste of being bad early in life - and loved it. “The nuns in school hated me because I was the class clown. I would make faces, and stuck my tongue out and I always had to go to detention. I got a ruler smacked on my palm more than once,” she recalled.
Still, Yeo suppressed her true “bad girl” self for years — and it got her crowned in the Miss Chinatown USA pageant in 1998 and into acting gigs on popular shows like “General Hospital,” “The O.C,” “NYPD Blue” and “24.”
But those roles were nothing like her latest character, Xiao-Mei, a Chinese immigrant held captive to cook in a family’s kitchen, then rescued to come live with Gabby Solis (Longoria) and her hubby Carlos (Ricardo Antonio Chavira). The couple then decides to use Xiao-Mei as a surrogate mother for their child via artificial insemination, but things go awry and she begins having full-blown sex with Carlos.
Playing the vixen, it turns out, wasn’t all that hard, Yeo said. “They say that when you come from a family of doctors like I do, you become sexually comfortable. And just like Heather Locklear once said, playing the bitch is the best part.”
What Xiao-Mei gets into next is a crapshoot. “I wouldn’t put anything past [series creator] Mark Cherry … When I first went on set, I said I’m making out with Carlos, but I wouldn’t mind making out with Eva, either. Hey, I’m a straight shooter, but I’m also an actress. I don’t think there’s a lesbian plot line coming up, but you never know.”
What’s certain is that Yeo will stay in the bedroom for her next role. She portrays Sun Fu, one of five Chinese girls who are forced into prostitution in the upcoming Western miniseries “Broken Trails,” which debuts on AMC June 25. And, she chimes, “I get rescued by Robert Duvall!”