Andrea Bowen Looking for a New Life

National Ledger, AZ - Andrea Bowen, who's played Teri Hatcher's "Desperate Housewives" daughter for the past four years, is hustling to make a new life for herself now that her series character has been all but written off of the show.  "It was definitely a huge shock and is hard to swallow," says Bowen of "Housewives" creator Marc Cherry's decision to advance the action on the series up five years, terminating the marriage of Teri Hatcher and James Denton (though Cherry's made clear Denton will continue to have a place on the show) and giving Teri a different series husband -- in addition to shipping Andrea's character off to Princeton.

"It has been very bittersweet for me," says Bowen, who points out that the series troupe was "like family to me from the time I was 13. I love those people, but I have been assured my character will be brought back from time to time -- some time. Meanwhile, there are a lot of things I want to try. I just made a guest appearance on 'The Closer' and am negotiating to do some more episodic TV and have been reading a lot of film scripts. And I've been a singer all my life, and am doing a lot of songwriting and recording with people -- keeping as busy as possible."