Cheyenne Jackson Gets Piloted

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        Cheyenne Jackson Gets Piloted
    
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          Mar 08, 2010
          
        
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Broadway, film, and TV actor Cheyenne Jackson has joined the cast of a pilot for ABC called It Takes a Village.
The gay star will play the boyfriend of a character previously married to a woman, played by Leah Remini. Jackson, his boyfriend, Remini, and her boyfriend all team up to raise a teenager.
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