Editing Jesse Metcalfe (section)

==Early life==
Metcalfe was born in [[Carmel Valley Village, California]],<ref>Metcalfe was born in California according to the State of California. ''California Birth Index, 1905–1995''. Center for Health Statistics, California Department of Health Services, Sacramento, California. At Ancestry.com</ref> the son of Nancy (née DeMaio) and Jeff Metcalfe. He is of Italian and French descent on his father's side, while his mother is of Italian and [[Portuguese people|Portuguese]] descent.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.spokesman.com/stories/2006/jul/31/time-to-plow-new-ground/ |title=Time to plow new ground? |author=Hiltbrand, David |website=The Philadelphia Inquirer |date=July 31, 2006 |access-date=March 16, 2010 |quote=...&nbsp;Metcalfe was born in California to an Italian-French father and an Italian-Portuguese mother. His parents split up, and he moved with his mother to Connecticut when he was 3.&nbsp;... }}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.belleville.com/mld/belleville/entertainment/15133451.htm |title='Desperate Housewives' boy toy makes leap to big screen |author=Hiltbrand, David |website=The Philadelphia Inquirer |date=July 28, 2006 |access-date=March 16, 2010 |quote=...&nbsp;Metcalfe was born in California to an Italian-French father and an Italian-Portuguese mother. His parents split, and he moved with his mother to Connecticut when he was 3.&nbsp;... |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20060928181055/http://www.belleville.com/mld/belleville/entertainment/15133451.htm |archive-date=September 28, 2006 }}</ref><ref>{{cite news| url=http://www.accessmylibrary.com/coms2/summary_0286-16678372_ITM | work=The Philadelphia Inquirer | title='Desperate Housewives' boy toy makes leap to big screen | first=David | last=Hiltbrand | date=July 26, 2006| quote=The future hunk was born in Carmel Valley, Calif., to an Italian-French father and an Italian-Portuguese mother.}}</ref><ref>{{cite magazine| url=http://www.accessmylibrary.com/coms2/summary_0286-11870344_ITM | magazine=Vanity Fair | title=Going yard with Jesse Metcalfe.(Interview) | first=George | last=Wayne | date=September 1, 2005| quote=I'm half Italian, quarter Portuguese, quarter French.}}</ref> Metcalfe played in several basketball leagues during his teen years in [[Waterford, Connecticut]], and graduated from [[The Williams School]] in [[New London, Connecticut]]. He dropped out of [[New York University]] once he booked the part of Miguel Lopez-Fitzgerald on the soap opera ''Passions''.