Former Queer as Folk hottie Gale Harold will guest star on Desperate Housewives this season, reports TV Guide.

The 38-year-old Vanished actor will play a “quick-witted, charming and buttoned-down suburbanite.” (Spoilers ahead!) It’s rumored that he will be part of the “time jump” this season and may turn out to be the new husband of one of the current housewives. Also in the finale–a couple of the current cast members say their final goodbyes to Wisteria Lane.

Gale is set to first appear on the show in the second part of May 18 two-hour season finale and could return next season.

New Vanished episode stills featuring Special Agent Kelton (Gale Harold), Agent Mei (Ming-Na) and reporter Judy Nash (Rebecca Gayheart), all of whom are seeking leads in the Sara Collins case.  FBI Agent Tyner (Esai Morales) after the jump. More pictures in the gallery including Max (John Patrick Amedori) secretly meeting his mother (Penelope Ann Miller) and Agent Mei (Ming-Na) and Medical Examiner Ray (Connie Marie Brazelton) examining a frozen body. Vanished episode "The Tunnel"  airring Monday, August 28 @ 9PM ET/PT on FOX.  The premiere airs Monday, August 21.

The cast of Vanished was on hand during yesterday’s 2006 Summer Television Critics Association Press Tour  at the Ritz-Carlton Huntington Hotel in Pasadena, CA. Pictured above is: Robert Hoffman, Christopher Egan, Penelope Ann Miller, Gale Harold, Ming-Na, and Rebecca Gayheart. Vanished will premiere right after Prison Break on Monday, August 21 @ 9PM on FOX.  Watch the viral marketing videos below including Rebecca Gayheart’s character as a reporter doing some interviews.  More pictures in the gallery!

WHOOPIE!!!!!!  New promos were released for Vanished, which premieres in one month on Monday, August 21 @ 9PM ET/PT on FOX… right after Prison Break.  Pictured above L-R: John Allen Nelson (Senator Jeffery Collins), Margarita Levieva (Marcy Collins), John Patrick Amedori (Max Collins), Joanne Kelly (Sara Collins), Rebecca Gayheart (Judy Nash), Ming-Na (Agent Lin Mei), and Gale Harold (Special Agent Graham Kelton).  Chris Egan (pictured after the jump) will play Ben Wilson.  Penelope Ann Miller (Carlito’s Way) and Esai Morales (NYPD Blue) have also joined the Vanished cast. Super über excited!  More promo pictures in the gallery!

New York, NY :: Fox unveiled its 2006-2007 programming schedule at the Fox Upfronts yesterday at Guastavino’s. Vanished will air @ 9PM ET/PT on FOX with Prison Break as its lead-in. The NYT said Vanished  "looks OK" and "the block might work" (the block = Prison Break and Vanished). Pictured above left to right :: Ming Na, Gale Harold, Margarita Levieva, Rebecca Gayheart, Joanne Kelly and John Allen Nelson.  If you’re not familiar with the plot, read here where you can also view the first Vanished production stills.

Yowzas!  This is one pretty cast! Here’s your first sneak peek at Vanished, a thrilling national soap opera that erupts when the wife of a prominent senator disappears.  Senior FBI Agent Kelton (Gale Harold) and his partner (Ming Na) are assigned to the case and they discover it is part of a larger conspiracy. Rebecca Gayheart plays ambitious reporter Judy Nash, who launches her own investigation.  Pictured above clockwise from left :: Joanne Kelly, John Allen Nelson, John Patrick Amedori, Margarita Levieva, Chris Egan, Robert Hoffman (She’s The Man), Rebecca Gayheart (Nip/Tuck), Ming Na (ER), and Gale Harold (Queer As Folk).  The Vanished premire will air Fall 2006 on FOX.  I smell success!