Desparate Housewive’s James Denton On Lasting Love

by Jesse Kornbluth

(Page 6 of 9) Erin’s birthday arrived. They had dinner at home. He gave

Erin a present.Her sisters called: “Get a ring?”“I got some really cool jeans,”

Erin told them.It was late in the evening when Jamie dropped to one knee and produced a ring. He cried. She cried.“It was great,” they say.And the ring? Did it, as the commercials for diamonds suggest, set Jamie back three months’ salary?“Not at my present salary,” he says, with a laugh. “But at that point, yes. Because I was out of work. That ring was my residuals from The Pretender and one Aquafresh commercial.”The wedding was in

Las Vegas in December of 2002, with just their two best friends in attendance.

Erin was showing, in a black dress that bared her belly. (“Genius,” Jamie says.) To everyone’s delight, the Little Church of the West had wooden pews, an organist, and a minister who acted as if this were the only marriage service he’d ever performed. “He talked about the value of marriage and the value of love,”