He is also notable for his portrayal of Miguel Lopez-Fitzgerald on the soap opera Passions and his starring role as the title character in the movie John Tucker Must Die. in late 2003 and early 2004, he met the famous model Estefania Santana. The show briefly addressed Miguel’s hituas as short term, due to Metcalfe addressing that he was taking a break from Passions, which was only slated for several months. in February 2005, Metcalfe announced that he would not be returning to Passions and that he would be continue the role as John on Desperate Housewives on a full-time basis. His second occurred when he was punk’d by Ashton Kutcher’s crew members during the Spider-Man 3 audition. Metcalfe’s first film role was in 2006, John Tucker Must Die, alongside Ashanti, One Tree Hill’s Sophia Bush and Hairspray’s Brittany Snow; he played a wealthy and insincere teenage playboy high school basketball player.
