In really random news from the Grey's Anatomy cast, Katherine Heigl is lending her name to a new collection of medical uniforms: Scrubs & Beyond's Katherine Heigl Collection of Medical Scrubs! Well... we can't deny she looks cute:
If you're a medical professional or just someone really into celebrity fashion, you can check out the entire Katherine Heigl collection by clicking here.
American auto giant Ford has launched a new breast cancer research charity auction on eBay that involves the Grey's Anatomy cast.
Through Ford's Warriors in Pink campaign, celebrities have joined together to decorate and sign mini Ford mustangs. These 1/18th scale models of the 2008 Ford Mustang with Warriors in Pink package will be auctioned off on eBay from October 15-25 with all proceeds going to Susan G. Komen for the Cure.
The celebrities involved include:
For more information please see the auction page.
The lovely Ellen Pompeo attended the 32nd annual National Italian American Foundation Gala in Washington, D.C. and received a NIAF Special Achievement Award in Entertainment for her portrayal of Dr. Meredith Grey.
She joined director Martin Scorsese at the gala, as well as Speaker of the House of Representatives Nancy Pelosi and Mary Margaret Valenti, the widow of Jack Velenti (president of the Motion Picture Association of America).
Click here for more photos of Ellen Pompeo at the event. It's always great to see this terrific Grey's Anatomy actress and person honored!
The new edition of American Way magazine features Grey's Anatomy's leading lady, Ellen Pompeo, and her native city of Boston. It's a very cool article, and starts with six things every fan should know about the amazing Ellen Pompeo...
In fact, Ellen Pompeo has 13 other things she'd personally love to tell you about Boston. Follow the jump for her extensive guide to a great city ...
From the moment he sits down among the buttoned-up, health-obsessed power players at a bustling Brentwood sushi joint and orders a round of champagne, it's clear that Grey's Anatomy star Patrick Dempsey is a bit of a throwback.
Rarely since Paul Newman and Steve McQueen, who provided the inspiration for these new photos taken by Entertainment Weekly's James White â" has a leading man brought this kind of old-school relish to the spoils of his success.
These are just a few pictures of Patrick from EW's feature. Follow this link for many more images from this shoot in our gallery of Patrick Dempsey photos!
Here's a fun picture of the Grey's Anatomy cast (minus only Chyler Leigh and Katherine Heigl) at a September 27 press conference. It's always neat to see (almost) the entire Grey's Anatomy ensemble together at an event! Patrick Dempsey and Ellen Pompeo fans in particular will surely be big fans of this.
For more high quality pictures of Ellen Pompeo and the rest of the terrific Grey's Anatomy cast from this press conference last month, follow this link.
Here's the shocker from the first two (and, from the looks of spoilers, at least the next few) episodes of Season Four of Grey's Anatomy:
Lexie Grey doesn't hook up with anybody.
Not McDreamy, not McSteamy, not George. Nobody.
"Around here, it's the ongoing joke," the petite actress who plays Lexie, Chyler Leigh, tells the New York Post. "Who am I going to sleep with?"
Who indeed? As Grey's Anatomy creator Shonda Rhimes tries to recover from a grim third season, she's trying hard to recreate a satisfying soufflé of sublime surgeons with fragile, complicated love lives and life-and-death medical crises.
The most potent new ingredient she's poured into the pot is Chyler Leigh, who plays Meredith Grey's Harvard-educated half-sister, Lexie.
Leigh interviewed for the high-profile role last November, but wasn't told until three days before filming the two-part season finale last April that her character would be Meredith's sister.
"This was all a huge secret," says Leigh. "They didn't want anyone to know I was coming."
But now the actress can fill in the blank.
"Lexie's mother died unexpectedly. Her father (Meredith's dad, Thatcher) is a basket case and drinking. "Lexie Grey was supposed to do her internship at Massachusetts General but came home to be with her dad."
Does half-sister Meredith welcome her with open arms?
Hardly. Especially after Meredith finds out that Lexie and Derek (Patrick Dempsey) have already met over drinks at Joe's Bar.
"Meredith pretty much doesn't want anything to do with her," Leigh said.
Leigh, who is married to actor Nathan West and has two young children, says she never watched Grey's Anatomy before the audition and had to play serious catch-up prior to joining the cast for Season Four.
When she found out last fall that she was up for a role, "my husband and I rented it on DVD and watched non-stop for about a day and a half. I was emotionally drained and exhausted. But I fell in love with the show."
Even the third season? Chyler Leigh pauses, and then decides not to censor herself. At 25, she is a quick-witted and intense young woman.
Many Grey's Anatomy fans are aware of Ellen Pompeo's acting resume, as well as her great personality. But here are five fun facts about the actress you might not know - complete with her quotes at times - courtesy of People magazine ...
1. On her very first day playing Leonardo DiCaprio's lover in the movie Catch Me If You Can, Ellen Pompeo "had to have a simulated sex scene," she later told the Chicago Tribune. "I can't say it was difficult, but ... it was a little awkward, sex with Leonardo DiCaprio on my first day."
2. Before working with Ellen Pompeo in the 2002 film Moonlight Mile, Jake Gyllenhaal hit on her. "He wasn't Jake Gyllenhaal then," she told Playboy. "I didn't know what to say, because he'd come over with these compliments and he's much younger than I am. I just said, 'Well, maybe we'll work together someday.'"
3. When asked what famous woman would she like to make out with, Ellen Pompeo said, "Ooh! Angelina Jolie. She's gorgeous. Or Sandra Oh."
4. Ellen Pompeo isn't impressed with her newfound fame since Grey's Anatomy became huge. "I don't find acting to be a particularly noble way to make a living," she says. "I'm not saving anybody's life, I'm not a teacher, I'm not working for UNICEF. I don't think I'm some big deal."
5. Ellen Pompeo was famously Punk'd by TV prankster Ashton Kutcher in 2005. The set-up: A sexy waitress hit on her boyfriend (now fiance), Chris Ivery, who was in on it and tipped her $200 on Pompeo's credit card. Ellen Pompeo's flustered reaction: she threatened to gouge the waitress with a fork!
After quite a season finale, Grey's Anatomy returns tonight.
To recap where we left off in May, Cristina (Sandra Oh) was left at the altar by Dr. Burke. Meredith (Ellen Pompeo) and Derek (Patrick Dempsey) sort of broke up, and George (T.R. Knight) found out he failed his intern exams.
"He's repeating his intern year," T.R. Knight tells Entertainment Tonight on set of the hit medical series, referring to his troubled character.
"His options were to walk away, or to repeat it, so, he's a repeater. He's made a lot of mistakes and that was one of them. You know the adultery and all that, so he needs to work out some stuff."
And part of working out that stuff means he has to figure out whether he wants to stay married to Callie (Sara Ramirez), or pursue friend Izzie (Katherine Heigl).
While neither T.R. Knight nor Katherine Heigl would reveal the future of "Gizzie," they did talk about their romantic kissing scene - not!
"When we were kissing, I was chewing that gum," T.R. recalled, laughing.
"They have this apple gum on the camera cart," Katherine added.
"It's apple flavored, but, literally, to me, it smells like vomit... like that taste in your mouth before you are going to throw up. So, the fact that I had to kiss him, and he had that gum in his mouth, was really throwing me off, because all I was thinking of was throwing up."
Well, that's hot! The season premiere of Grey's Anatomy, "A Change is Gonna Come," airing tonight at 9 p.m. on ABC, is different this year.
The title is appropriate. With the exception of George, the rest of the gang - Meredith, Cristina, Izzie and Alex (Justin Chambers) - are now residents.
"We have just a tiny modicum of power now, but not like Bailey (Chandra Wilson) and not like Callie who is the chief resident. We have our own interns - a group of young, eager students... basically who we were two years ago," Katherine Heigl said.
What a difference a year makes: T.R. Knight says his life has been better since he publicly came out of the closet amid on-set controversy last October.
"I feel I've learned so much this past year, so, I'm grateful for that, so yeah, that changes you," he said on The Ellen DeGeneres Show Thursday.
Asked what he thinks about actors who do not come out of the closet, T.R. Knight said, "Everyone has their own path. You have to respect that... I don't think it's right to force it. It's impossible to know. There's a lot of soul searching you have to do."
Knight, who plays Dr. George O'Malley on the hit ABC drama, which returns with its fourth season premiere, "A Change is Gonna Come" tonight, got a nomination for a best supporting actor Emmy for his work in Season 3.
Just as importantly, though, he received a special birthday gift.
Co-star Katherine Heigl - who is also a close friend off-camera - surprised Knight with a puppy, which he named Arrow, on his 34th birthday.
"I had been talking about [getting a dog] for quite a while. I guess there's a point ... too much talk and not enough action," Knight said. "So Katherine made the decision. It was great, yeah. She showed up at my house with it."
Although he is happier with himself since he made his announcement, T.R. Knight says that coming out hasn't much affected his love life.
"Recently Kate [Heigl] and her fiancé, Josh Kelley, and me and her mom went out to dinner, and it was reported that it was with me and my new boyfriend. But that was her mom," Knight joked. "So I guess I'm dating Katherine's mom now."
"The Becoming"
Thursday, September 4, 9 p.m. (repeat, episode 4.14)
"Losing My Mind"
Thursday, September 11, 9 p.m. (repeat, episode 4.15)
"Untitled"
Thursday, September 25, 9 p.m. (NEW, 5.1)
Season 5 of Grey's Anatomy finally begins!