Tom Scavo
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Tom Scavo is the name of a fictional character on the ABC television series Desperate Housewives. The character is played by actor Doug Savant.
History
Lynette's husband, who previously was frequently out of town. Tom has been keeping a secret from his wife that only his father, Rodney Scavo, knows about. 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, a former girlfriend of Tom's, who he had apparently conceived a child with and did not find out about until eleven years later.
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