Actor refuses "steamy scenes" looses work but gains respect.

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No Sex Please, I'm Neal McDonough...

By Nikki Finke | Wednesday March 31, 2010 @ 10:53am PDT

Neal McDonough is a marvelous actor who elevates every role he plays, whether it's in Band of Brothers or Desperate Housewives. So when he was suddenly replaced with David James Elliott 3 days into the filming on ABC's new series Scoundrels earlier this week, there had to be a story behind the story. The move was officially explained as a casting change. But, in fact, McDonough was sacked because of his refusal to do some heated love scenes with babelicious star (and Botox pitchwoman) Virginia Madsen. The reason? He's a family man and a Catholic, and he's always made it clear that he won't do sex scenes. And ABC knew that. Because he also didn't get into action with Nicolette Sheridan on the network's Desperate Housewives when he played her psycho husband during Season 5. And he also didn't do love scenes with his on-air girlfriend in his previous series, NBC's Boomtown, or that network's Medical Investigation. "It has cost him jobs, but the man is sticking to his principles," a source explained to me. You can't help but admire McDonough for sticking to his beliefs, even if he's poised to lose as much as $1 million in paydays for Scoundrels, which is based on the New Zealand series Outrageous Fortune centering on the matriarch (Madsen) of a family of criminals who decides it's time for her brood to go straight after her husband (McDonough, now Elliott) is sentenced to a long prison term. ("I thought these things only happened to women in LA!," a source mused.)

http://www.deadline.com/2010/03/no-sex-please-im-neal-mcdonough/

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How much money does one need?

$3,678,882.12

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$3,678,882.12

That's your (ING) retirement number? You'll be comfortable, unless you retire in NY or CA.

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I'm supposed to have a retirement number?

You haven't seen these ING commercials?

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No. Let me check out their site and find out what my number is!

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I'm not surprised if AJ hasn't encountered those commercials. He only comes to VJ, plays with his monitoring software, or watches American MILF porn.

I eat and take dumps too.

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I have Fidelity IRA and 529 accounts. I'm still waiting for the green line to materialize on the floor in front of me.

I eat and take dumps too.

Pics or it didn't happen

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Pics or it didn't happen

You got me. I confess, it didn't happen.

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You got me. I confess, it didn't happen.

A lifetime's worth of #######, IAA (In AJ's #######)

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Please, not a thread.

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Please, not a thread.

I won't. But Spooky just might. He's crazy that way. :devil:

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I eat and take dumps too.

On the keyboard?

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I'm not surprised if AJ hasn't encountered those commercials. He only comes to VJ, plays with his monitoring software, or watches American MILF porn.

I guess the TRO filed by Priya Rai is still in effect.