Eva Longoria has opened up about her friendship with Victoria Beckham as she joined the Loose Women ladies on their latest show.

“We had met because our husbands were both sports people back in the day and we just remained very close friends,” she revealed to Ruth Langsford and Coleen Nolan.

Eva and Victoria Beckham
Eva and Victoria at the 2015 Global Gift Gala (Ian West/PA)

“She’s an amazing woman, an amazing mum, an amazing business woman and an amazing wife and she’s really funny,” Eva said of her friend.

When Ruth said that the UK rarely sees Victoria smile, the former Desperate Housewives star said: “She smiles and laughs a lot… and she makes me laugh more importantly.”

The two have been friends since the Beckhams moved to LA nine years ago, when Eva was dating basketball player Tony Parker.

On Monday night, the pair reunited on the red carpet for the Global Gift Gala, a charity supported by Eva, with Posh even lending her BFF a dress from her collection for the night.

Sitting down with the Loose Women, she also talked about 10 years in her famous role as Gabrielle Solis on Desperate Housewives and the “bittersweet” ending.

“We were ready to finish, only because it was a decade of our lives and we did 23-24 episodes a year, working for 11 months and having about four weeks off,” she said.

“I couldn’t have one more affair, I think I slept with everyone on the street!”

Victoria and Eva in 2007 (Owen Humphreys/PA)
Victoria and Eva in 2007 (Owen Humphreys/PA)

But when it actually got round to filming her final scenes, she admitted: “I wasn’t quite ready to let go at that moment. It was bittersweet.”

Asked whether there might one day be a Desperate Housewives reboot, she teased: “There’s always that possibility.”

Eva is now starring in new US sitcom Telenovela that goes behind the scenes on a Spanish soap opera – only Eva’s lead actress character can’t speak Spanish.

Eva with her Desperate Housewives cast mates (Tammie Arroyo/AP/PA)
Eva with her Desperate Housewives cast mates (Tammie Arroyo/AP)

Eva said this was the only script which had wooed her back to TV.

“I was on the greatest show of the last decade, Desperate Housewives, so I knew if I went back to TV it had to be even better.

“When I read (the script) I was like, ‘I’m going back to TV’, because this is the funniest role I’d ever read,” she said.