DESPERATE HOUSEWIVES - METCALFE DENIES 'FABRICATED' DRINKING STORY

Former DESPERATE HOUSEWIVES actor JESSE METCALFE has dismissed a report he has started drinking again as "completely false". Earlier this year (07), Metcalfe spent a month in a California rehab clinic to receive treatment for "alcohol issues". The 28-year-old is furious with a story printed in a recent issue of American magazine In Touch Weekly, which reported he was spotted drinking a Heineken beer at a John Mayer concert and was "not sober". Metcalfe's lawyer Marty Singer has written a letter, obtained by website TMZ.com, to In Touch and its parent company Bauer Publishing, demanding an "appropriate retraction, correction, and apology" or face "substantial liability".