Kerry Washington left little to the imagination in a racy look while attending a star-studded event in New York on Tuesday night.
The Scandal star, 48, joined the likes of Lily Allen and Emma Roberts at the 2025 Brooklyn Artists Ball held at the Brooklyn Museum.
Washington flashed her underwear while modeling a see-through black mesh dress on the red carpet.
She also wore a black bra under the sheer sleeveless frock and cinched in her waist with a leather belt with a silver buckle.
The actress accessorized with eye-catching layered necklaces and added height to her petite 5foot4inch frame with platform heels.
Washington’s attendance at the event presented by Dior comes amid backlash over the upcoming reboot of the ABC series ‘Desperate Housewives’ that she’s producing.
Kerry Washington left little to the imagination in a racy look while attending a star-studded event in New York on Tuesday night
The project, currently titled ‘Wisteria Lane’, is being reimagined at Onyx Collective, with Washington listed as one of the executive producers, as pert Variety.Â
The show follows five diverse friends living on the seemingly idyllic cul-de-sac of Wisteria Lane. But beneath the perfect facade of beautiful homes, lie hidden secrets.
The original show, which aired from 2004 to 2012, was also set in the suburban neighborhood of Wisteria Lane. It followed Susan Mayer (Teri Hatcher), Lynette Scavo (Felicity Huffman), Bree Van de Kamp (Marcia Cross), and Gabrielle Solis (Eva Longoria).
Following the news of the reboot, fans took online to express their disappointment, with one writing, ‘Nobody asked for that, original is perfect.’
‘Desperate Housewives 2.0 – now with 100% more desperation!’ someone else chimed in on X.
The comments continued: ‘If Teri, Eva, Felicity, and Marcia aren’t the stars, they can 10,000% keep buried in the drafts.’
‘Did we completely run out of original ideas?’
Another fan wrote: ‘We don’t need a new cast. We want a return of our own ladies.’
The Scandal star, 48, joined the likes of Lily Allen and Emma Roberts at the 2025 Brooklyn Artists Ball at the Brooklyn Museum
Washington flashed her underwear while modeling a see-through black mesh dress on the red carpet
She also wore a black bra under the sheer sleeveless frock and cinched in her waist with a leather belt with a silver buckle
Someone else simply asked: ‘Why?’Â
‘Getting a new team to do a reboot is almost rarely a good idea, just don’t do it if the OG team doesn’t want to.’
‘Hard pass,’ yet another wrote.Â
The original ‘Desperate Housewives’ was the brainchild of Marc Cherry.
The show ran for eight seasons and nearly 200 episodes on ABC from 2004 to 2012.
During its run, the show earned 38 Emmy nominations, with Huffman winning lead actress in a comedy in 2005 and Kathryn Joosten winning guest actress in a comedy twice.
The show was originally produced by ABC Studios.
Natalie Chaidez is attached to the new project as writer and executive producer, and Pilar Savone will serve as executive producer via Simpson Street.
Stacey Sher of Shiny Penny is also set to executive produce.
The official logine states the show is ‘set around a group of 5 very different friends and sometimes frenemies who all live on a picture-perfect cul de sac called Wisteria Lane. On the surface, all the Wisteria neighbors are living the dream. Beautiful homes, gorgeous families, shiny SUVs in the driveway — but behind those white picket fences and smiling Insta posts, are secrets.’
A new version of smash hit ABC series Desperate Housewives is currently in the works, but fans are far from happy about it; The original cast featuring Marcia Cross, Eva Longoria, Teri Hatcher, and Felicity Huffman seen in 2007 still
The project, currently titled ‘Wisteria Lane’, is being reimagined at Onyx Collective, with Kerry Washington listed as one of the executive producers, as pert Variety; Washington seen in April
Following the news of the reboot, fans took online to express their disappointment, with one writing, ‘Nobody asked for that original is perfect’
The comments continued: ‘If Teri, Eva, Felicity, and Marcia aren’t the stars, they can 10,000% keep buried in the drafts’
‘Desperate Housewives 2.0 – now with 100% more desperation!’ someone else chimed in on X
‘Hard pass,’ yet another wrote
Someone else simply asked: ‘Why?’
The original show, which aired from 2004 to 2012, was also set in the suburban neighborhood of Wisteria LaneÂ
The news comes after Longoria spoke about the possibility of a revival.
She appeared on Bravo’s Watch What Happens Live on Monday, to promote her show Searching For Spain, which debuted Sunday night on CNN.
Longoria has said in the past that she would be interested in a Desperate Housewives reboot or revival series, which prompted a question from a fan.
The fan wrote into WWHL to ask who might be standing in the way of a Desperate Housewives reunion.
The answer may surprise some fans, with Longoria revealing it to be none other than series creator Marc.
‘Marc Cherry, our creator. Yeah. He feels like we’ve exhausted the characters,’ Longoria said, which stunned host Andy Cohen.
She added, ‘It’s unlike Sex and the City, which was only, like, six episodes, eight episodes a year. We did 24 episodes a year. For a decade.’
‘So I can’t sleep with any more people on that, right? Like I have slept with every single person on the street,’ Longoria joked of the show’s infamous Wisteria Lane.
Longoria was also asked by another WWHL guest, comedy legend Sandra Bernhard, if Longoria’s Gabrielle ever slept with any women on the show.
‘No, I didn’t… wait, did I?’ Longoria said, as Bernhard joked they could do a ‘half season’ on that.
During its run, the show earned 38 Emmy nominations, with Huffman winning lead actress in a comedy in 2005 and Kathryn Joosten winning guest actress in a comedy twice
Longoria recently addressed a potential revival, stating that series creator Marc Cherry feels ‘we’ve exhausted the characters’Â
Also pictured at Tuesday night’s 2025 Brooklyn Artists Ball was Emma Roberts, who wowed in a chic black gingham coordÂ
Keri Russell was also on hand for the festivities in a sleek all-black lookÂ
‘We got to convince Marc Cherry,’ Longoria insisted of the show’s creator and executive producer.
When Cohen asked if she still gets, ‘healthy residual checks’ from the show, she would only offer a smile and add, ‘I do well.’
Desperate Housewives would also serve as the inspiration for Bravo’s Real Housewives franchise, drawing from, ‘real life desperate housewives.’
The show also spawned global adaptations in Argentina (2006–07), Colombia/Ecuador (2007), Brazil (2007–08), Turkey (2011–14) and Nigeria (2015).
It was even one of many soap operas banned from North Korean television, with the government allegedly executing upwards of 80 people for watching banned South Korean soap operas, of which Desperate Housewives was the most popular.
