Following her recent wedding to rapper Jay-Z, R&B superstar Beyonce Knowles is all set to become a housewife, at least on television. The 26-year-old singer is reportedly in talks to join the cast of ABC's Desperate Housewives, according to MediaTakeOut.com.

Beyonce's father, Matthew, who also serves as the singer's manager, is negotiating to get Beyonce a recurring role on the popular dramedy and is also looking to secure his daughter a more prominent part on the show.

Nothing is official yet but many media sources are already buzzing over this Desperate Housewives casting news.

"They've already agreed to give Beyonce a cameo appearance. But [we're] hoping that [she] could be written in for a recurring role, or possibly even a permanent one," a source from Beyonce's camp told MediaTakeOut.com.

Beyonce came into prominence as the lead singer of R&B girl group Destiny's Child, which is ranked as the second best-selling girl group of all time. After a string of successful projects with the group, she released her debut album “Dangerously in Love,” which spawned singles such as "Crazy in Love" and "Baby Boy", and earned her five Grammy Awards in a single night in 2004. Shortly after, she released her second album, “B'Day,” consisting of hits like "D骠 Vu" and "Irreplaceable,” the fourth solo number 1 single in the United States, and the album's most successful release.

Eventually, the success of her solo albums established her as one of the most marketable artists not just in the music circuit but in the movie industry as well. She was cast in the comedy Austin Powers in Goldmember as Foxxy Cleopatra and starred alongside Steve Martin and Kevin Kline in the 2006 comedy film The Pink Panther. That same year, she also scored the main role in the film adaptation of the 1981 Broadway musical Dreamgirls.
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New York 'marriage' for Beyonce

? ? Pop star Beyonce Knowles and rap mogul Jay-Z have married in New York, according to reports in the US. The reports follow a day of frenzied activity outside Jay-Z's apartment in the Tribeca area of the city. A white tent was set up on the roof while stars including Gwyneth Paltrow and Destiny's Child stars Kelly Rowland and Michelle Williams arrived there. Both People and Us Weekly magazines claim the couple have married, but there has been no official comment. Photographers and camera crews camped outside the apartment on Friday, as white flowers and silver candelabras were delivered to the block. Both magazines cite anonymous sources as saying the pair wed and threw a small but lavish party. ? The couple have never acknowledged they are an item Neither Knowles, 26, nor Jay-Z, 38, have publicly acknowledged that they are together, although they have been linked for six years, and they have collaborated on two tracks, '03 Bonnie and Clyde and Crazy in Love. A spokesperson for Jay-Z - whose real name is Shawn Carter - had no comment on reports of a wedding. Last week, the Associated Press news agency reported he was in talks with concert promoter Live Nation over a proposed $100m (?50.1m) deal which would cover recording, publishing, live shows and other rights.