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A large originative unit is scrubbing retired of Grey's Anatomy for bully astatine the extremity of play 19. Get the details connected the astonishing departure.
Grey's Anatomy Shares First Look astatine Ellen Pompeo's Goodbye
Krista Vernoff has enactment successful her announcement astatine Grey Sloan Memorial Hospital.
The Grey's Anatomy showrunner and enforcement shaper volition measurement down astatine the extremity of the show's existent 19th season, she confirms to E! News.
Vernoff worked arsenic caput writer and enforcement shaper connected the archetypal 7 seasons of Grey's. She departed and yet returned successful her existent relation astatine the commencement of play 14 successful 2017.
She will besides measurement down from her originative perch astatine Grey's spinoff Station 19, which she took implicit astatine the commencement of play 3 successful 2017.
"It has been the privilege of a beingness to beryllium entrusted to tally Grey's Anatomy for the past six years and Station 19 for the past four," Vernoff said successful a connection to E! News. "The passionateness of the dedicated fandoms and the interaction that these shows person connected hearts and minds cannot beryllium overstated. The magnitude of endowment successful these 2 bonzer casts and these 2 superb writers rooms is beyond measure—and these crews enactment magic week aft week."
Instead of wholly cutting the cord, Krista referenced backmost to her erstwhile departure from the amusement arsenic a mode to soften the blow.
"The past clip I near Grey's Anatomy, I was gone for 7 seasons and the amusement was inactive going erstwhile [creator] Shonda [Rhimes] called maine to tally it," she continued. "So I'm not saying goodbye due to the fact that that would beryllium excessively bitter sweet. I'm saying, ‘See you successful 7 seasons.'"
Shonda paid tribute to Krista, who helped usher Grey's done galore of its astir caller buzzworthy moments, including the shocking instrumentality of Patrick Dempsey successful the play 17 premiere.
"Krista's creativity, imaginativeness and dedicated enactment person allowed Grey's Anatomy and Station 19 to proceed to flourish," Shonda said successful a connection to E! News. "I americium incredibly grateful to her for each her hard work. She volition ever stay portion of the Shondaland family."
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Of course, Krista isn't the lone large Grey's unit preparing to accidental goodbye.
When the aesculapian play returns from its wintertime hiatus connected Feb. 23, Ellen Pompeo, who plays the titular Meredith Grey, volition marque her last quality connected the show—for now, astatine least.
As for Krista's replacement, Deadline reports that Meg Marinis, "who has been connected the amusement since the precise beginning, rising from a researcher each the mode to enforcement producer," is presently successful beforehand of the succession line.
Grey's Anatomy returns for its mid-season premiere Feb. 23 astatine 9 p.m. connected ABC.
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