"Desperate Housewives" star Teri Hatcher is shocking neighbours by supposedly having sex with a succession of men in her car parked outside her Los Angeles home.

According to the Internet Movie Database, the actress had confessed that after her 10-year marriage with actor Jon Tenny ended she had been celibate for months.

The actress says: "I'm living my youth late. I worked when I was young, then I was married for 10 years. So I enjoy the innocence of a great make-out. I've had that battered VW van for years... "