Exclusive: An update on the gay characters of "Desperate Housewives"

I'm still here at the press tour and the cast of "Desperate Housewives" is on stage along with show creator Marc Cherry.

Marc was asked about Andrew Van de Kamp (Shawn Pyfrom), the show's gay teenager who used to be evil then kinda got a lobotomy and now has gotten close to his mom Bree (Marcia Cross) again.

"I don't have anything planned for the first half of the season," Marc said of the Andrew character.

Marc shared that Andrew was based on him when he was younger during the first season, at least in terms of his mother's attitude toward his being gay. He had Andrew be more "in your face" than he was as a kid.

"I got to work out some of my anger," he said.

But now that Marc has worked things out and is closer than ever to his mother, Andrew's more symbiotic relationship with Bree reflects that.

"She;s kind of like my mother," Marc said. "She knows you're gay, you just don't talk about it."

UPDATE: OK, I just talked to Marc and got the scoop on Andrew: "He;s Bree's assistant so he becomes he becomes kind of her Machiavellian assistant, making sure that she's taken care of. So it becomes an interesting relationship because their bond is now different than it was before. It will be a very adult (Andrew)."

And will Andrew finally get another love interest?
"Ultimarely, but I don;t know when," Marc said. "I'm not gonna shy away from it but right now I'm just kind of busy setting up the new season with what the women are all about. So we'll get there."

Also asked Marc about the future of Bob and Lee, the gay couple on Wisteria Lane played by Tuc Watkins and Kevin Rahm. They had a commitment ceremony in the season finale.

They're on the street, they will have a little daughter," he said. "We're probably going to use them later on in the middle of the season but they're still a part of the neighborhood and Tuc and Kevin just signed a deal and they'll be part of whatever's going on."