Ugly Betty: August 2008 Archives

I'm a little bummed that the charming and talented Christopher Gorham would not be returning to "Ugly Betty" as a regular this fall. He had proposed marriage to Betty in the season finale - the same episode where another suitor with less baggage (Chris' character, Henry, just had a child with another woman) asked her to take off with him to Italy.

Betty chose Italy.

"The show got us together then had to think of ways to keep us apart," Chris told TV Guide's William Keck.

But Keck reports that Chris has landed on his feet with a role on the CBS show "Harper's Island" which is a mid-season replacement series. He plays a dashing groom named Henry Dunn whose friends gather on an island for the wedding. They start getting killed, one by one.

Gorham is never at a loss for work with such series as "Popular," "Medical Investigation" and "Out Of Practice" on his resume. The problem is, they are all very good shows that don't seem to last long enough. "Betty" was the exception and now he's off it.

Whatever. I'd watch him in anything.

"Ugly Betty" star Michael Urie!
His character of Marc St. James is one of the most delicious gay portrayals ever on television. He's campy, bitchy and scheming but shows us just enough heart and vulnerability to make us care. Marc has been dating a photographer (David Blue) and came out to his anit-gay mother played by Broadway legend Patti LuPone. But he's most fun in his scenes with his two bitches: Wilhelmina Slater (Vanessa Williams) and Amanda (Becki Newton).

Update: I forgot to mention this: Michael turns 28!