When it comes to sheer unrelenting drama, Grey's Anatomy is where it's at. Not the TV show Grey's Anatomy, of course – that's duller than double maths on a rainy day – we're talking about the shenanigans on the Grey's Anatomy set.
In the last few weeks alone, the goings-on behind the scenes of Grey's Anatomy have vastly outstripped anything that has happened on-screen on Grey's Anatomy, or any other TV drama for that matter. The pinnacle of interestingness came when two Grey's Anatomy actors, Isaiah Washington and Patrick Dempsey, butted heads like two randy stags and proceeded to roll around the floor destroying everything around them as they attempted to push their fists through each other's skull. Or something. Anyway, now Isaiah Washington has decided to apologise for his Grey's Anatomy actions that day. Like a big girl.
What are the chances of us convincing ABC to start filming a behind-the-scenes documentary of the Grey's Anatomy set and then broadcast that instead of the actual show? Because, as popular as Grey's Anatomy is around the world, it does contravene rule eight of the big television handbook – that all medical dramas are a big sack of rancid cocks. Also, think how much more popular a sneaky look at all the fractious relationships of the Grey's Anatomy actors would be, knowing what we know now.
For the Grey's Anatomy set is a hotbed of activity at the moment. Already the gay-seeming Grey's Anatomy actor has announced that he's gay, although that shocking piece of news pales in comparison to the recent Grey's Anatomy actor-fight, where classically trained theatre actor Isaiah Washington's resentment towards the preferential treatment afforded to prettier actor Patrick Dempsey spilled over into the sort of manic unthinking violence you usually see on documentaries about smalltown binge-drinking. Or no violence at all but a few bad words, depending on who you believe.
Following the Grey's Anatomy fight between Isaiah Washington and Patrick Dempsey, talk was rife about possible rewrites – maybe Isaiah Washington and Patrick Dempsey's characters would have a rumble on the show, maybe the number of scenes that Washington and Dempsey shared would be cut or maybe – and this is a genuine theory – that Isaiah Washington would be replaced by the first black actor that any of the Grey's Anatomy actor could think of, in this case ER star Eriq La Salle. All those theories have been shot down by Grey's Anatomy producers, especially now that Isaiah Washington has decided to apologise for being a bit of a dinkle-head:
"I sincerely regret my actions and the unfortunate use of words during the recent incident on-set. Both are beneath my own personal standards. … I have nothing but respect for my coworkers … and have apologised personally to everyone involved."
That's very big of Isaiah Washington to do, and it's already started a trend of admittance and apology from the rest of the Grey's Anatomy cast. Isaiah Washington has said sorry for staring a fight with his co-stars, TR Knight has stepped out of the closet, and now it's a race to see which Grey's Anatomy star will be next to hold their hands up – Sara Ramirez for being the individual who introduced the recent idea of quotas for grain export that have negatively affected investment climate in Ukraine, or Sandra Oh for finally admitting that, yes, she put the ram in the ram-a-lang-a-ding-dong.
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EXCLUSIVE: Isaiah Washington Apologises – People
[story by Stuart Heritage]