The gossip site Deuxmoi is backpedaling after an unconfirmed item they posted prompted a strong response by actor Jesse Metcalfe. He wasn’t named in the blind item email but the address submitting the item used the name John Tucker, a likely reference to the 2006 film Metcalfe starred in, John Tucker Must Die. “My friend hooked up with a z list hallmark actor on the weekend that is recently single. He could not stop talking about himself. There’s also some drama with hallmark on why they won’t hire him anymore,” the submission read. Metcalfe certainly has been in several Hallmark projects of l…