Doctor Who and Torchwood star John Barrowman has revealed he’s meeting with the producers of Glee in Los Angeles – and is hoping to land a part as a teacher.

The star, who flies out to the States on Thursday to start shooting his scenes on Desperate Housewives, said he was thrilled to even be asked along for a chat as he was such a huge fan of the show – or ‘Gleek’, as he called himelf.

He enthused: “I absolutely love the show. What would I play in it? I’m not sure what kind of character I’d like to play, maybe I could be a teacher, you know, another teacher who comes in and helps out.

“That’s me just kind of brainstorming but the fact that they want to have a meeting with me is really quite nice in itself, it’s so exciting!”

As for his forthcoming appearance on Wisteria Lane, John revealed he’d always been a massive fan of Desperate Housewives too and would be in for six episodes as character Patrick Logan.

He told Mirror.co.uk: “I just got the script last night. He is the most evil character they’ve ever introduced to the series. And that’s saying something!

“I’ve been told I’ll not only be involved in what they call ‘the current mystery storyline’, but I’ll affect every single housewife on the street. I can’t wait! I’m going to be having my Starbucks in the morning with Eva Longoria, woohoo!”

John said he’d landed the part as the show’s producers were fans of him as Captain Jack in Torchwood, which is shown in the US on BBC America.

However, John revealed that there had still been no green light regarding a new series of Torchwood, even though Russell T Davies has said he’s already written another 15 episodes and the last mini-series of the show on BBC1 landed six million viewers.

First rumours said it was due to start shooting at the start of this year, but now there’s speculation that it may be axed in the current BBC cuts.

John said he was equally unsure about the future of the show.

He said: “If I’m asked to go back and do Torchwood, I will at the drop of a hat go and do it. It’s just a question of when.

“But if they were to ask me to come back, of course I would. Look, Captain Jack changed my life, I’m not going to dump him.”

John also confirmed that he wouldn’t be in the new series of Doctor Who, but was as excited as the fans to see it.

He said of new Doctor, Matt Smith: ”I’m sure he’ll bring his own personality to it and his own quirks. Everytime the Doctor changes, as a nation, we all kinda go ‘oh, we’re really sad and it’s going to be hard shoes to fill’, but we all get on the Tardis with the new Doctor and we all go on that journey because the show is the iconic thing.

“I would agree (that David Tennant was the best Doctor ever), but 10 or 20 years ago whoever it was then, they were probably voted the best ever also, it just depends on the audiences at the time. But David was a great Doctor.”

John even penned a track on his self-titled new album in honour of Tennant’s Doctor – called The Doctor And I, a version of The Wizard And I from musical Wicked.

John explained: “David (Tennant) has heard it, he heard it at a concert that I did and I sang it specially for him and he loved it, and Russell has heard it and Russell loves it…That song is a thank you to all of my fans.”

Of the other tracks on the album – including Barry Manilow’s Copacabana and You’ll Never Walk Alone - former West End star John explained: “The songs that I’ve chosen are songs that have an emotional connection to me, they’re from my heart and I want the listener to understand that it’s not just a random choice of songs.

“It wasn’t difficult to choose these ones because they meant so much to me, to my life.”

And finally, John insisted there had been no falling out with Sir Andrew Lloyd Webber over not being a judge on his new Wizard Of Oz talent show, after Denise Van Outen claiming she’d been ousted because she was pregnant.

John said: “I’ve got no comment on Denise not being on the show, because I’m not a woman and I’ll never be pregnant, but the reason I’m not doing it is because I’m going off to do Desperate Housewives.

“I’m telling you the honest-to-god truth, there was no malice, there was no anger, there was no fighting, nothing, except I was asked too late.”

John is also in secret talks about another UK TV show, but couldn’t confirm a thing as negotiations were still ongoing.

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