Patrick Dempsey’s sudden exit from Grey’s Anatomy shocked fans, but insiders say it was a long time in the making and that he left the show no choice.
Series creator Shonda Rhimes reportedly had no choice but to fire him after he showed up late, forgot lines and acted unprofessionally on a regular basis.
We hate to say it, Grey's Anatomy fans, but you may be more broken up about Patrick Dempsey's departure from this ABC series than Patrick Dempsey is.
In news still reverberating around the Internet, Dempsey was written out on Grey's Anatomy Season 11 Episode 21 when his beloved character, Dr. Derek Shepherd, got run over by an 18-wheeler.
Another catastrophe has struck Grey's Anatomy.
Another core cast member has said goodbye.
McDreamy's reign on Grey's Anatomy may soon be coming to an end, according to new reports that suggest Patrick Dempsey is bolting the ABC medical drama.
Happy St. Patrick's Day, THG readers!
On this holy drunkest of all holidays, we'd like to take a few moments to recognize those after whom celebrations around the globe are decidedly not named.
Late last week, Hilary Duff filed for divorce from Mike Comrie, officially ending that couple's marriage after nearly five years.
That's what happens after your husband offers a waitress $600 to have sex with him.
McDreamy is about to be McSingle.
Patrick Dempsey and his wife, Jillian Fink, are in the process of filing for divorce after 15 years of marriage.
Celebrity power couples tend to make the most headlines, but not every star requires someone who shares the limelight when it comes to finding love.
For every Beyonce and Jay Z, or Ashton Kutcher and Mila Kunis, there's a happy union between a celebrity and their somewhat unlikely match.
TV Guide has published its annual list television's highest-paid actors, and there are some serious shake-ups in the 2014 pecking order.
For one thing, the number 1,2, and 3 spots all belong to Big Bang Theory cast mates.
Everybody has to start somewhere, right? Right. For some of Hollywood's best and brightest, that somewhere is on the playing field and not the movie set.
Yes, it's true. Many of our favorite stars had aspirations of becoming professional athletes when they were children, just like you probably did. (But not me. I always dreamed of being a rock star. We can all see how THAT turned out.)
March 17 is a day to drink green beer, celebrate the birth of Rob Kardashian and honor those from a wide range of industries.
What could bring a Grey's Anatomy star together with a few politicians, some actors, a game show host and one of the 50 greatest players in NBA history?
Ellen Pompeo and Patrick Dempsey have signed two-year contracts to stay with ABC's Grey's Anatomy through the spring of 2016, according to reports.
The actors who have played Dr. Meredith Grey and Dr. Derek Shepherd since the show's debut in 2005 will keep the actors on the show through Season 12.
Sometimes life imitates art, or something like that.
Grey's Anatomy star Patrick Dempsey channeled his inner Dr. McDreamy this week when he helped rescue a teenager who careened off the road and overturned his car completely near the actor's property in Malibu, Calif.
Jim Carrey vs. Patrick Dempsey. Not a style showdown you were probably expecting in THG's Fashion Face-Off series, but a fun one just the same!
Carrey's still an all-time movie star, yet has been absent from the spotlight (relatively speaking) in recent years. The Grey's Anatomy cast member, meanwhile, has seen a resurgence in his career over the past half-decade.
Get ready to say your McByes, Grey's Anatomy fans.
Patrick Dempsey, who has been with the ABC series since its premiere and who has seen his career resurrected as the result of playing Dr. Derek Sheperd, has made it official: the 2011-2012 season will be his last.
People magazine's Sexiest Man Alive honor is quite coveted.
Fans and gossip sites like THG debate who it should go, but while debates can be heated, but most of us happily salute the winner, whomever it might be.
If Grey's Anatomy has any fans left, tonight's two-hour fourth season finale is supposedly the night you've been waiting for!
Just kidding. The show still draws millions of loyal viewers. Yet it's been a long time since something interesting happened on it.
Ghost Whisperer star Jennifer Love Hewitt and Grey's Anatomy star Patrick Dempsey were recently voted the sexiest stars on TV by TV Guide.
Hard to argue with that logic. The respective hotties will appear on two alternative covers of the TV magazine's "Sexiest Stars" issue.
McDreamy is no McSteamy, Patrick Dempsey admits.
"I'm not Eric Dane â€" McSteamy is in perfect shape" the Grey's Anatomy star tells the new issue of Parade Magazine. "I definitely have pec envy."
Just call him Dr. McDreamy ... on Grey's Anatomy and in real life!
Patrick Dempsey unveiled a cancer center in his name at the Central Maine Medical Center in his hometown of Lewiston, Maine, on Monday.
A naked, writhing, sweaty Marisa Tomei engaged in feverish, doggy-style sex might sound terrific to a lot of you guys reading this.
Well, yeah... and if it weren't for the hulking, naked Philip Seymour Hoffman going to town on her, we might share that sentiment.
We know. It's extremely difficult to compete with George Clooney in this category, even if your TV character gave birth to the term McDreamy.
But Patrick Dempsey pulls it off.
Lance Armstrong who? Grey's Anatomy star Patrick Dempsey makes like the cycling champ and rides to glory (or at least to the store) in Los Angeles this week.
Hmm... auditioning for Dancing with the Stars' next season? Probably not. But "Enchanted" costars Amy Adams and Patrick Dempsey certainly have got some skills!
Below, the Grey's Anatomy actor and the cute redhead teach the audience the proper steps to a Viennese Waltz during taping of TRL Monday in New York.
