OFF-SCREEN DRAMA!

ISAIAH WASHINGTON

The star played Dr Preston Burke in the rst three seasons but was sacked after he used a homophobic slur to describe co-star TR Knight. Knight hadn’t publicly come out when the story made headlines.

KATHERINE HEIGL

The actress earned an unfair reputation for being “di cult”when she left to focus “on her family”. “I don’t put up with bulls--t or nasty people. I don’t have time for it,” Rhimes has said of the star.

ERIC DANE

His smouldering stare and sexy love scenes earned him the nickname “McSteamy”, but Dane regrets the six years he spent playing Mark Sloan. “In Grey’s Anatomy,

I was just a piece of meat,” he told French news outlet Programme TV.