Desperate Housewives star Eva Longoria was stunned to find a squatter living in her brand new Hollywood mansion when she recently took her mother to view the dream home.

The actress has been renovating the home for the past five months and didn't want to set foot inside until contractors and builders had completed their work.

But when she decided to take an unexpected sneak peek at the place, she was surprised to find a homeless man living there.

She says: "We walk in and there's beer cans everywhere and I'm like, 'What is this?' And a guy comes down (the stairs) in, like, boxers and he's like, 'Oh crap..! I'm fixing the electricity.'

"He was a worker on the house that just decided to squat. There's nothing there, it's like an empty house... I was livid."