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Is it Marcia?

Prepare for the tsunami of press coverage. Marcia Cross, the sexy yet anal retentive Bree Van De Kamp, is apparently preparing to come out — in real life, according to an item on the British news site Sky.com.

Marcia Cross of the hit show ‘Desperate Housewives’ may come out as gay, according to recent media reports.

Speculation has been running rampant in recent days that a character on ABC’s hit show “Desperate Housewives” and one of the show’s actors in real life will come out as gay. Sky.com reported earlier today that it will be Cross on an upcoming cover of the Advocate, and that her character’s onscreen son, played by Shawn Pyfrom, will come out on the show.

Get ready for the obligatory appearance on “Oprah.” She loves the show almost as much as gay men (and makes an appearance on an upcoming episode), and is sure to make room for this new twist. The national media will surely tune in; they can’t miss a sensational coming out story when it comes to women in Hollywood. (Note Cynthia Nixon, Rosie O-Donnell and Ellen DeGeneres.)

And this one is sexier than most. Sky.com says Cross, 43, is involved with a woman from another top TV show.

The coming out on the show isn’t supposed to take place until May. No word on when Cross, or whoever it turns out to be, will make the same move in real life. But with media attention now turning to the next celebrity coming out, it might happen sooner than that.

Let the media feeding frenzy begin