If CBS network execs had their way, Patricia Heaton’s “Everybody Loves Raymond” character, Debra Barone, would have been played by a different actress.
That’s the claim being made by the show’s creator, Phil Rosenthal, who told Yahoo! Entertainment that “CBS wanted someone hotter to play Debra.” According to Rosenthal, he pushed back hard. “I almost quit the show over it,” he said, revealing that the network “insisted” that a specific actress be cast as the wife of Ray Romano’s character, Ray Barone.
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