They’re killing off Izzie from Grey’s Anatomy.
"It’s not good there. Shonda is pissed. They’re thinking of killing her off. They want Izzie dead," said an insider. Shonda Rhimes is the creator and executive producer of Grey’s Anatomy. She was voted last year by Time magazine as one of the “100 People Who Shape the World,” in the Artists and Entertainers section. Grey’s also won her a Golden Globe for Best Drama TV Series last year. Let’s just say that Grey’s Anatomy is Shonda Rhimes and vise versa. So when actresses like Katherine Heigl, who portrays Dr. Isabel “Izzie” Stevens in Grey’s Anatomy, goes off withdrawing her name from this year’s Emmy nomination, stating that her role wasn’t really worth it… people will definitely be pissed. And Shonda should be at the top of that list. “I am truly grateful for the honor that the Academy bestowed upon me last year,” says Heigl in an interview with LA Times. “I did not feel that I was given the material this season to warrant an Emmy nomination and in an effort to maintain the integrity of the Academy organization, I withdrew my name from contention. In addition, I did not want to potentially take away an opportunity from an actress who was given such materials.” While no one can argue that Heigl should be the best person to judge whether her character really did suck or not, we think that as courtesy to the show’s creators, you don’t go dissing their material like that on public. According to another insider who was interviewed by Entertainment Weekly, “The show bent over backwards to accommodate her film schedule, and then she criticizes the show for lack of material? It’s an ungrateful slap in the face to the very writers responsible for her Emmy win in the first place.” Heigl won an Emmy for Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Drama Series for Grey’s Anatomy last year. So maybe she’s just being a diva. Maybe she felt she deserved a better storyline than what was given her, being that she won an Emmy as Izzie. But people don’t like divas, especially ungrateful ones. It’s not a secret that Heigl’s last two movies were both box office hits. The romantic comedy “Knocked Up,” released in June last year, opened at #2 at the U.S. box office. Unexpectedly, it grossed $30,690,990 in its opening weekend. As of date, the film has grossed over $148.8 mil in the United States alone, while raking up another $70.1 mil in other countries. Add that up and you have a whopping $218.9 mil in total. Big bucks. Then, just this January, she starred in another romantic comedy called “27 Dresses” alongside James Marden (Cyclops in the X-Men movies). Though not as huge as Knocked Up, the movie has still grossed over $76.7 mil in North America, with another $71.9 mil from other countries. It totals a worldwide gross of over $148.7 mil. Again, big bucks. Katherine Heigl is a box office magnet. So she probably wanted out from the series anyways. Her acting career is doing much better these days, and by that we meant she was making more money from it. Plus, it has been in the rumor mills for quite some time that she wanted out of her contract a long time ago. We don’t know if killing off the character would be good for the show, but who cares?! As long as the ungrateful bitch is gone, Grey’s fans will definitely be pleased. It is worth noting that Katherine Heigl never had hit movies prior to Grey’s Anatomy, and she has been acting since she was 13! She shared her first movie with then fellow newcomer Eliza Dushku (who is yet to have the same success as Heigl) in a movie called “That Night,” released in 1992. Since then, Katherine has had 11 movies prior to Grey’s; none of them were box office hits. Her majesty is already working on a – surprise, surprise – romantic comedy opposite Gerard Butler, King Leonidas of the blockbuster movie “300.” The new film is aptly called “The Ugly Truth” and it’s set to be out next year.
