Some people think that acting is an easy job for all sorts of wafty morons who wouldn't know a decent day's work if it spat in their skinny latte. To that, we say: tell that to Teri Hatcher.

Because, for Teri Hatcher, acting is a job fraught with danger. Teri was recently injured while filming Desperate Housewives – and it wasn't the obvious Desperate Housewives injury of realising you work on a rubbish TV show and trying to throw yourself out of the nearest window, either. A lightbulb exploded on set, and all kinds of razor-sharp shards of glass stabbed Teri Hatcher in the eye.

Although Teri Hatcher doesn't have sex with a succession of men in a van outside her house, she does have a busted-up eye after an accident on the Desperate Housewives set.

For some reason, a lightbulb exploded on the Desperate Housewives set on Tuesday. Who knows why – perhaps it was dazzled by how nice Marcia Cross' hair was, or by Eva Longoria's latest ridiculous statement. But the fact is that it exploded. Luckily, Teri Hatcher's eye was there to catch most of the glass shards, protecting everyone else from certain minor injury. Teri described the glass explosion to People Magazine:

"Glass lodged in my right eye and proceeded to scratch my cornea. I was taken to a wonderful eye doctor, and now am wearing a most glamorous eye patch over the right half of my face. I like to look at the positive and the good news is, the cornea is the fastest healing tissue in the body." 

And because Teri is currently walking around looking like the world's skinniest pirate, she's been unable to attend a charity launch and filming of Desperate Housewives has been delayed by two days. It's thought that Teri Hatcher will now sell her story to a glossy magazine in a 'My Eye Discomfort Hell' cover-story, while setting up a charity for stars of overrated TV shows with small foreign bodies temporarily in their eyes, and there'll no doubt be a Teri Hatcher-written self help book, entitled Small Bit Of Glass In The Eye For The Soul.

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Teri Hatcher Injured On Housewives Set – People

[story by Stuart Heritage]