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Followers of “Gray’s Anatomy” know the present will not be the identical with out Ellen Pompeo’s Meredith Gray, however the long-running medical drama made positive her farewell served as the proper goodbye. However is that this actually the top for Meredith?
As beforehand reported by Selection, viewers have seen loads much less of Dr. Gray in season 19 as a result of actor’s function in a forthcoming Hulu present, which nonetheless stays untitled, and she or he formally departed the present in its Feb. 23 episode. Nevertheless, in response to “Gray’s Anatomy” government producer Debbie Allen, who additionally performs Catherine Fox, this is not the final we’ll hear of her.
“Lots of people have loads to say,” Allen advised “Leisure Tonight” of Meredith’s midseason exit. “You realize, Meredith Gray is taking a journey to a different course, [but] she’s nonetheless alive. She’ll nonetheless be coming again to the present. However she is certainly taking a departure.” She added: “The reality is, it isn’t her final episode. [She’s] leaving Gray Sloan [Memorial Hospital], not ‘Gray’s Anatomy.'”
Allen stated that it is “an enormous deal for all of us to not have her on set [every day] like regular,” including: “However she’s there. I imply, she’s nonetheless shopping for meals vans for the crew. She’s nonetheless coming to evaluate bake-offs, she’s nonetheless our primary on the decision sheet,” she shared with a smile.
Though viewers will not bodily see Pompeo’s character on “Gray’s Anatomy” anymore (not less than for now), she’ll nonetheless be narrating each episode, and the actor will proceed to function one of many present’s government producers.
Forward of her remaining goodbye on “Gray’s Anatomy,” Pompeo shared a message to followers in a Nov. 17 Instagram submit celebrating her time on the sequence. “I’m eternally grateful and humbled by the love and help you will have all proven me, Meredith GREY and the present for 19 seasons!” the actor wrote. “By all of it . . . none of it . . . would have been potential with out the perfect followers on this planet. You all are RIDERS and also you all have made the experience so enjoyable and ICONIC!! I like you madly and recognize you proper again.”
Pompeo additionally hinted at her potential return to the present. “This is not your first time on the rollercoaster,” she added. “You realize the present should go on and I am going to positively be again to go to. With a number of love and immense gratitude XoE 🙏🏼❤️”.
As for Pompeo’s upcoming Hulu function, the streamer has green-lit eight episodes centered round a Midwestern household who undertake who they suppose is an 8-year-old woman with a uncommon type of dwarfism. Nevertheless, they quickly start to query her identification, throwing their very own relationships into turmoil as they uncover that she won’t be precisely who she says she is.
The present relies on the true story of a girl named Natalia Grace Barnett, whose official age was modified from 8 to 22 in a 2012 court docket order, per Journal & Courier, although the case has continued to develop since then. Along with appearing within the present, Pompeo additionally serves as an government producer, working alongside Katie Robbins (“The Affair”), Erin Levy (“Mad Males”), and some different members of her Calamity Jane manufacturing firm.
Although this implies much less display time for Meredith Gray, this actually is not the top of Pompeo’s profession.
