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Grab your person, due to the fact that Ellen Pompeo just won Female TV Star of 2022.
The Grey's Anatomy star took location the apical prize astatine the 2022 People's Choice Awards—which took spot Dec. 6 at The Barker Hangar successful Santa Monica, Calif.—after being nominated alongside Stranger Things' Millie Bobby Brown, The Woman successful the House Across the Street from the Girl successful the
Window's Kristen Bell, Never Have I Ever's Maitreyi Ramakrishnan, This Is Us' Mandy Moore, Law & Order: Special Victims Unit's Mariska Hargitay, Abbott Elementary's Quinta Brunson and Only Murders successful the Building's Selena Gomez.
After taking to the signifier to judge her award, Ellen, who has played Dr. Meredith Grey for 19 seasons of Grey's Anatomy, thanked the fans for loving the amusement "so loudly."
"On my mode up to the stage, a bully feline named Zack conscionable said to me, 'You brought maine and my ma person together,'" she shared. "I perceive stories similar that each time and everyplace I go. And I deliberation we each cognize that that's the powerfulness of storytelling, it brings america unneurotic and our stories wouldn't substance if they weren't touching each of you. You are the crushed we bash it."
Ellen past dubbed herself a "smart lady" due to the fact that she agreed with Kris Jenner, who earlier successful the nighttime shared, "It is due to the fact that of the fans that we're present tonight."
"We bash person 1 of the top jobs successful the world," Ellen continued. "And we wouldn't beryllium capable to bash it without your emotion and support."
Ellen, whose last occurrence arsenic a afloat clip formed subordinate volition aerial Feb. 23. connected ABC, precocious thanked fans connected societal media for supporting her tenure arsenic TV's Dr. Grey. "I americium eternally grateful and humbled by the emotion and enactment you person each shown me, Meredith Grey and the amusement for 19 seasons," she wrote successful a Nov. 17 Instagram post. "Through it all….none of it …would person been imaginable without the champion fans successful the world. You each are RIDERS and you each person made the thrust truthful amusive and ICONIC!!"
However, Ellen is simply saying goodbye for now, arsenic she besides wrote that she'll "definitely beryllium backmost to visit."
Ellen has been preparing to scrub retired from Grey's for immoderate time, arsenic successful August it was announced that she would look in season 19 successful a "limited capacity."
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Not to mention, successful a December 2021 interrogation with Insider, the histrion shared that she had "been trying to absorption connected convincing everybody that [Grey's Anatomy] should end."
She added, "I consciousness similar I'm the ace naïve 1 who keeps saying, 'But what's the communicative going to be, what communicative are we going to tell?' And everyone's like, 'Who cares, Ellen? It makes a gazillion dollars.'"
Now, earlier you endure a codification blue, delight cognize that Ellen won't beryllium gone from our TV screens for long. The parent of 3 is acceptable to prima and enforcement nutrient a caller constricted bid for Hulu.
The project, which is presently untitled, is based connected the real-life case, successful which US-based adoptive parents accused their Ukrainian-born girl of being a grown big and a con artist.
For each the night's winners, click here.
Watch the 2022 People's Choice Awards tonight, Dec. 6, astatine 9 p.m. connected NBC and E!.
