Former Hottie Justin Chambers Leaving Grey's After 15 Years

At least [italic]St. Elsewhere[/italic] knew when to quit.

Something smells fishy. 16 years and no real sendoff?

Grey’s Anatomy fans have already seen the last of Alex Karev. TVLine has confirmed that the final episode featuring Justin Chambers — whose departure from the show was announced early Friday — aired on Nov. 14. In the Nov. 21 episode, viewers learned that Alex had returned home to care for his ailing mother.

The fact that Chambers will not be given a proper onscreen sendoff suggests his departure came abruptly and without much notice.

Is that thing STILL on?

This show is STILL on the air??

Well, any any case, regardless of whether or not he finds new roles, he is set for life money-wise.

LOL stupid millennial bitches on Twitter are crying like "I CAN'T BELIEVE THIS IS HAPPENING" for a freaking 15 year old show...

It was never a good show, so the fact that it's lasted for 15 years is astonishing.

Damn he was cute for a minute back in the early 2000s. Time is a bitch

Interesting that Ellen hasn’t said anything.

Something obviously happened.

He was great in that movie with Uma Thurman, Juliette Lewis, and Gena Rowlands called Hysterical Blindness. Early ‘00s on HBO.

Yup, R7. He was the sexy model in this 1998 Calvin Klein ad.

I remember thinking he was so cute in The Wedding Planner. Very charming character. Then I tried watching Grey’s Anatomy for him and his character was kind of a jerk so I never stuck with it and forgot about him.

He's officially ventured into Elder-gay territory.

Literally never heard of him.

Him leaving in general wasn't a big surprise, but the fact that he already made his last appearance, that's something.

The show seems to finally be falling apart. I bet next year is the last.

Justin Chambers = Thick dick face.

R14 it’s already been renewed for two more seasons.

R16 I think the current one was one and the next one is the second. As I said, it will likely end after next season.

He's had health/psych/neurological issues in the past.

WAIT! I just noticed in the article I posted at R18

[quote] I also had two deaths to deal with. One was a friend from Paris, and the other was Merv Griffin, who was a good friend.

Was Justin one of Merv's boys?

R19, he wasn't a friend of Jill's!

Seriously, it's likely he was let go for budget; as an original cast member, he was making scads of money; he doesn't need the money (hopefully); and he'll either come back, go to another Shonda show or find other work.

That show is STILL ON?

Has 5 kids. That’s a lot of anatomy.

wrist

thick

cock

They would not let go of a 15 year veteran with no sendoff. He was fired and swept under the rug.

Something's not right with this story.

You don't have a major cast member of 15 years standing be left with a Oh, by the way, he's gone now.

Something definitely happened and I guess the truth will be drip fed out.

The show does now need to end.

Who'd stay for just Ellen? LOL.

That cunt Sara Ramirez is trying to get some attention with this tweet. I can't stand it when celebrities try to insert themselves in dramas as an excuse to drum up click baits and hits with vague tweets. Just get to the point.

R26, even worse are her stans’ comments to her thanking her for the tea — when she gave no tea at all.

Who in the HELL watches "Grey's Anatomy?" Teenage girls and middle aged women? I've watched film clips of it and they make me want to gag. People on that show never talk; they makes speeches. Here's one by the poor doomed character called Lexie. It's addressed to "Dr. McSteamy" Mark Sloan:

"I love you. Oh God.. oh, my God, that just came flying out of my face. I love you. I just...I did it again. I love you. I do. I just, I love you. And I have been trying not to say it. I have been trying so hard to just mash it down and ignore it and not say it… I am so in love with you. You’re in me. You’re like — it’s like you’re a disease. It’s like I am infected by Mark Sloan and I just can’t think about anything or anybody and I can’t sleep. I can’t breathe. I can’t eat. And I love you. I love you all the time. Every minute of every day. I love you."

And then they killed Lexie off. And then Dr. Sloan. Just like Justin's character will be killed off I'm sure.

Someone on a different thread said Chyler left because of Mark's drug addiction.

Grey's Anatomy is my only real trash-TV guilty pleasure. My mom watched the first couple seasons when I was in high school so I remember it being on in our house, and I later watched it off and on by myself and always found it extraordinarily entertaining. When I was in graduate school, I made my way through the whole series on Netflix, stopped watching for a few years, and recently got back up to speed while recovering from a surgery. It's ridiculous, but the characters and atmosphere are what really make it for me. It's TV comfort food to me essentially.

As far as Justin is concerned, I've lusted after him for years. I find him absurdly sexy, and have always liked his character on the show. It'll be sad to see him leave, especially since he and Meredith had such a strong bond over the duration of the series. At this point, I'm sort of hoping they pull the plug and don't drag it on any more than they already have.

Isaiah Washington fighting with Patrick Dempsey over T.R. Knight. Katherine Heigl criticizing the writing and then leaving the show. Patrick Dempsey fired and then Shonda killing his character off. Jessica Capshaw and Sarah Drew - fan favourites - fired so that cunt Ellen Pompeo could get a higher paycheque (sorry, Ellen, we still don't believe you "had nothing to do with it"), now this.

This show is a mess behind the scenes.

Bobby Lee IS Sandra Oh

Why is this anything? Isn't GA toast, anyway, either next season or the one after that? I'da sworn Pompeo recently made a BFD over (finally) walking away from it any old time now.

Chambers really looks his 50 years now. He was such a babe for that first season of "Cold Case," which promptly dumped him, enabling him to sign on with GA and make multi-millions every year for 15 years, lucky bastard.

[Quote] Jessica Capshaw and Sarah Drew - fan favourites

Was April really that popular? I found her annoying.

[Quote] He was such a babe for that first season of "Cold Case," which promptly dumped him

I always wondered what happened to his character. I thought he must have left CC for Grey's.

Well "Japril" (Jackson + April) were very popular with fans and when she was fired, the GA fans were devastated because "Japril" was no longer endgame.

And Jesse Williams was very upset when she was let go.

[quote]he wasn't a friend of Jill's!

She fired him, too, and replaced him with Kevin McClatchy as Nick Hudson (whom I preferred). That freed him up for Cold Case, and then [italic]they[/italic] dumped him. I figured he must have untreatable gastrointestinal problems, and then he shows up on GA for (they tell me—I didn't stick around) fifteen years. I love it when someone like him gets a nice, long run like that. They make a shitload of money if they can last that long.

This show is still on?! WTF.

Cute-ish before gaining weight and getting boozeface.

Yes, the show is obviously still on, and it's doing well.

I remember when it was the hit show of the moment, that was long time ago and the show jumped the shark long time ago, but it's a prime time soap opera, and it's still doing well, in fact some of the new characters are popular too

Is the gay doctor still on?

[Quote] that was long time ago and the show jumped the shark long time ago,

As much as i loved the Denny storyline, it really was ridiculous.

The Dizzy storyline was one of the very worst things to appear on television, ever, r43. I stopped watching GA because of it.

Thanks for your knowledgeable insight, OP, your caring and concern.

But don't worry, I'll be just fine.

R44 i stopped when they put George and Izzy together.

This show is a sinking ship.

Fifteen years? It's like watching the Titanic in slow motion.

A mid-season contract renewal sounds designed to fuck the actor over.

Pompeo really seems machiavellian.

Has the actress who played Chambers' wife on the show made any comment?

[quote]It's like watching the Titanic

More like The Good Ship Frauiepop.

The first and last episodes of every season pack a punch.

Every other episode is a snoozefest..

We are in the new age of nonlinear viewing, so the legacy networks’ new MO, to postpone the inevitable, is to have tentpoles like Greys or SVU or NCIS and ride that horse til it drops dead. It’s the exact opposite at streaming, where Netflix determined that there’s no economic benefit for the company to have more than three seasons.

Also given the death of the daytime soap opera, the audience for that now must rely on shows like Greys to get their fix fir their “stories”.

Who in their right mind wants to stay on a show for fifteen years?

Sara Ramirez look like a man.

Meredith Grey screwed anything with a dick, yet she cried when she sobered up and realized that she slept with George. That was the end of it for me, too.

[Quote] Has the actress who played Chambers' wife on the show made any comment?

I wonder what will happen to Jo? Doesn't seem like she's a fan favourite.

[Quote] Meredith Grey screwed anything with a dick

Except for Alex lol

R53: Everyone who is aware of their limited range.

If you are on a hit show (and Grey's was a hit at the start) you take profit of that. At the end you have money enough to try to skip being typecasted.

And if you are smart, during the time you are playing the role you use your free time to get small roles in films to show the world you can do a lot more. That makes the transition once the show ends way easier

Whoever that Tanya is on Sara's Twitter, R26, she seems to be indicating that some Krista is the one perhaps instigating all these people getting fired. She retweeted something where this Krista called Sara and someone else toxic, but the consensus seems to be that Krista is toxic. There's a writer named Krista. That's as far as my sleuthing goes. I stopped watching this trainwreck of a show 10 years ago. It was no better than a daytime soap. Maybe that's the key to its longevity. Anyway, that Tanya's twitter is the interesting one.

[quote] typecasted.

Cast still never ever ever ever has an -ed on it.

Cast, not casted.

Typecast, not typecasted.

R58 Krista Vernoff is the head writer and show runner on Grey's.

She is or was a good writer; she wrote for a few shows before Grey's (like Wonderfalls) and she was on the first 5-ish years of Grey's. She brought a lot of the fun humor to the early seasons.

After she left GA became a tragedy porn fest. Krista returned a few years ago - 3 or 4 - and it hasn't really helped much.

Oh, I guess Krista is the one poised to take over since Shonda got a Netflix deal.

She already did take over, I don't think Shonda has much to do w/Grey's now.

Shonda has been pissed about Grey's for a long time, it is a show that had a lot of network interference and changed a lot from what she originally intended. It also has done ridiculously well, so any power she's been given in the TV universe is because someone somewhere hopes she'll create another big hit like GA.

R34, I like this one better.

[Quote] And if you are smart, during the time you are playing the role you use your free time to get small roles in films to show the world you can do a lot more. That makes the transition once the show ends way easier

Which is pretty much what Katherine Heigl did before it all went to shit.

R59: Thank you, english is not my language so it's good to learn something new

R64: Yes, but it works way better if you don't act like a nightmare on set

Heigl may be a bitch but she was right that the writing for her character was shit. The ghost Denny and that nonsense was AWFUL. Maybe she didn't handle it well but what lies did she tell?

Krista is a bitch just as Ellen Pompeo is a bitch. It's because of them that Jessica Capshaw and Sarah Drew got fired. Ellen to get more $$ and Krista because she became the showrunner. The excuse was their stories had come to an end or some bullshit. And Krista drove the knife in further when she married April off to Matthew, ensuring that she could not come back for Jackson. It was ridiculous since April left Matthew at the altar. So, r58 is not far off about Krista. .

Oh, and that cunt Ellen tweeted. There's something really repugnant about her. She's so fake.

Believed or not the show has devoted fans, i remember a lot of people being upset because they have to watch 9 1 1 due to the crossover (it shouldn't be a big deal because 9 1 1 is way more entertaining than Grey, but they were pissed)

I thought this show was supposed to go off the air like 4 years ago.

R67: But that was not the problem with Heighl, the proble was being a bitch in every single film she made. She had plenty opportunities to make a career but she waste too much time being a jerk to colleagues and bosses

R70 exactly. she could've transitioned into movies fine if she played ball. I'm thinking Chambers was fired or just feels he had enough money. Guy has NOTHING else on his resume and is aging quickly.

One of the comments to Ellen's tweet says Justin left to help take care of his mother.

R72 that was the character explanation, not the actor.

I don't buy that bullshit about him diversifying... at 50? I mean, 50 is not old. But you would have thought he would have done that sooner.

He knows he's made a shitload of money from this show and he doesn't strike me as being that ambitious.

He either got tired of the bullshit, was jumping in front of a scandal or just figured he had enough money and said "See ya".

I stopped watching when Izzie stood in the rain staring at the hospital for eternity.

[quote]I thought this show was supposed to go off the air like 4 years ago.

Deadline:

Sixteen seasons in, Grey’s Anatomy, the longest-running medical drama on television, remains a ratings powerhouse. It again is ABC’s most-watched and highest-rated series in adults 18-49 this season. Grey’s is currently in the middle of a two-season pickup through Season 17, with ABC Entertainment president Karey Burke recently voicing optimism that the series could go beyond that.

Leave Him Alone.

He'll be just fine.

Next, you'll be picking on Harry, criticizing him for quitting his job, and trying to convince anyone who can read or write, that he's gonna blow every penny he has on foolishness, and won't be able to support his wife and kid.

Is it even possible for a gay man to be truly happy?

r78 Harry?

Wasn't Heigl's mother one of the reasons no one wanted to put up with their bullshit??

Why should anybody give a fuck about what this guys does, except for fans of this stupid show? It's too bad they're not going to give him a prolonged death scene to send him, though. It's always satisfying when the characters of this show get killed off. It's good riddance.

Justin's look would fluctuate from season to season.

He would look bloated in the face and tummy area and then suddenly slimmed down the next.

It didn't look like fat but just an usual bloat.

I stopped watching this shit after Arizona was written out

R68, this show spun off to the shittastic "Station 19", not "911".

R84: Sorry, my mistake

Page Six had an interview with him. He looks good. But something is still amiss. I wonder what the real story is.

ER was a better show but they should've shut it down two years before they did. I tried watching this show many times but it never gathered my interest. Justin is still handsome just, plumper?

I stopped watching after Christina Ricci and the exploding grenade.

I stopped watching when it became clear they were just trying to $pin the show out for as long as possible and had no intention of telling coherent stories or remaining true to any characters. Ellen Pompeo seems like a real narcissistic nightmare

I stopped watching when they had that plane crash. It was just tragedy porn by then.

I have peeked in a few times here and there, they had a good episode last year with Alex's wife finding her mom and the woman who was raped being walked down a corridor of only women. But for the most part, it's just endless tragedy porn.

How many long lost sisters did Meredith have? There was poor silly Lexie. And didn't she have an African American one? This show is beyond ridiculous.

How did scowly Meredith score all the really good cock?

[quote] Fifteen years? It’s like watching the Titanic in slow motion.

[italic]The Unflushable Ellen Grey?[/italic]

[quote] Fifteen years? It’s like watching the Titanic in slow motion.

[italic]The Unflushable Ellen Grey?[/italic]

Levi and Nico seem to finally have a new storyline tonight...

What a lovely episode, I was in tears near the end, nice to see such a gay-positive storyline take up so much space.

And a still-handsome 72-year old Peter Strauss as Levi's gay uncle's long-time partner was a real bonus.

They mentioned Karev tonight, so in the Grey's Anatomy world, he still a big shot at Pac-north

I agree r52. People still like soap operas but with the daytime ones in short supply now they have to find night time ones like Grey's.

And the awkwardness continues

I feel like it's going to be another decade before we find out the real reason for his departure.

So is Shonda just that fucking unbearable for anyone with a penis to work with?

Or did he pull a Dempsey and fuck someone he wasn't supposed to?

Awkward death incoming.

The character of Alex had some sort of white trash brother and mother.

Maybe he ends up ODing on meth or opioids.

This is still so mysterious and strange. It was that bad that he couldn't film one final scene to bring closure to the character?

Did he harass someone? Not get enough $$ and walked out? Most of the cast have been quiet about his departure.

R104 all excellent questions.

IS THAT LAME SHOW STILL ON THE AIR?

Seriously -- I thought it had ended at least 5 years ago if not longer.

R104, and so profound.

Attention DL'ers!

Be warned that many cubefraus will be unable to function at work tomorrow.

Grey's Anatomy revealed Alex Karev's fate (that he went back to Izzie) and cubefraus and frauettes everywhere are in a RAGE.

Do not look them in the eye! They may snarl or bite.

He still looks good, not AS good but good.

He used to be so hot. He's married with 5 kids. He's involved with the Pentecostal Christian church.

Well something BAD clearly happened. Shonda would rather be waterboarded than EVER have Heigl back so this is definitely a scorched Earth exit. But really? Izzie the former underwear model is living on a farm?

K.

It seems to be an open secret that Chambers had another nervous breakdown and was in a mental rehab clinic.

That was one of the most HORRIBLE exits in TV history. The worst episode in Grey's history. The fraus are losing their shit on Twitter. It really is time to end this show.

What was so horrible about it was the obvious body double for Heigl which just reinforces that Shonda is a bitch who holds a grudge. They should have brought Heigl back to make this believable.

It was just so horribly written, and all those cheesy shots of the farms and the kids were laughable.

Krista helped get rid of April and Arizona and gave Alex a shitty send-off. She is an awful writer.

I can't at his exit 🤣 This was so random.

So what happened last night?

Hasn't Pompeo made something close to $1 million per episode for the past 10 years?

She's making like $20mm per season.

I'm stunned that they think she's worth that much.

At least a million an episode. I found this from 2 years ago

With “Grey's” now in its 14th season, Pompeo is one of the highest-paid actresses in Hollywood, earning more than $20 million a year, according to The Hollywood Reporter. She'll receive $575,000 per episode, a seven-figure signing bonus, producing fees and back-end equity in the deal, among other perks

1/17/2018

I started watching for the first time for Jake Borelli who I think is adorable. Wow - it is really, really bad. All of the actors speak in really loud sitcom voices and only a few them are convincing as medical professionals. They make John Stamos on ER look believable. Was it always this bad?

I started washing again after many years when the Jake Borelli storyline started.

I fast forward through most of the plots, but I do watch the gay guys and the seams with Debbie Allen.

By the way, despite its histrionics and shortcomings, the series is a like a documentary compared to that Patricia Heaton sitcom Carol's second chance, which seems though it has never seen a medical show, either drama or comedy, before.

Just watched it, better than i expected...

I remember when Justin Chambers was a model. Hot.

R115 he went back to Izzy even though he just got married to Jo lol

[quote] Was it always this bad?

It was worse. The "Dizzy" years are some of the worst storytelling of all time, in any medium. And they were quite early on.

The show died when Sandra left.

R123 it was silly but tolerable.

No, r125. It was, for me, literally not tolerable. I stopped watching Grey's for years mid-Dizzy.

R126 I'll take it over the Gizzy pairing.

Ellen Pompeo is such a fake cunt. She's all over social media saying how it was the best send-off. Jesus Christ, you're already getting $20 million. You don't need to feed us this b.s. She is such a smug bitch.

Although weirdly, she went on and on about how Karev was a great character but said little about Justin.

Now THAT sounds like a toxic set!

I'm over the sad, fat cunts crying on twitter about the show.

I mean, it sucks, but you'd think they were Qanon weirdos based on how much they've shrieked about it. get over it!!!!

[Quote] She's all over social media saying how it was the best send-off.

Either she's high or they paid her a fortune to say that.