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'Grey's Anatomy' Has Exciting Arc Planned For Katherine Heigl In Which She Drops Dead
Posted by Seth at 10:55 AM on July 12, 2008
The ongoing mutual loathfest between notoriously stroppy film and TV star Katherine Heigl and the producers of Grey's Anatomy reaches a hateration crescendo with rumours that her character will have the plot equivalent of a soft hospital pillow (or maybe an actual one) pressed onto her face by showrunner Shonda Rhimes until all of her limbs stop flailing, at which point her lifeless corpse will be free to pursue whatever big screen pursuits it so pleases. From EOnline.com:
Latest buzz hissing from the set of the ABC hit is that creator Shonda Rhimes may be entertaining the idea of killing off Heigl's Dr. Isobel "Izzie" Stevens because of the now infamous remarks Heigl made about the upcoming Emmys.
"It's not good there," a source tells me of the Grey's Anatomy set. "Shonda is pissed. They're thinking of killing her off. They want Izzie dead." [...]A rep for Rhimes said, "I haven't heard anything about that." Reps for Heigl and ABC declined to comment.
We'd remind you that the rumours of Izzy's imminent demise are, for the time being at least, just that: rumours. We'd suggest waiting for confirmation before you start affecting your best Sicilian Widow, comforting yourselves between nose-blowing trumpet-flourishes by telling anyone who'll listen, "It's OK. She's finally with Denny now."
- Gone, Heigl, Gone? [EOnline]
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Old No.7
Posted 11:35 AM 12/7/08
@EuroDad: So switch it around... kill the one in real life, and the TV character will disappear as well! You know, two birds, one stone.
Old No.7
jasonelias
Posted 11:31 AM 12/7/08
They could make George the Seattle Grace Killer in a three-ep arc. You know, he'd "take care" of, a janitor, three of those non-descript interns, hopefully Hahn and sadly James Pickens Jr. In a twist, the woman who cause this blood lust/killin' spree, Izzy becomes his last victim. Their slots are filled with two has-been movie actors.
And scene.
jasonelias
EuroDad
Posted 11:19 AM 12/7/08
fat lot of good it'll do us; the real thing will still be walking around
EuroDad
tonashideska
Posted 11:14 AM 12/7/08
How about a helicopter cuts off her arm then a year later another one falls on her? Oh wait! It's been done already.
tonashideska
el smrtmnky
Posted 11:58 AM 12/7/08
elevator shaft anyone?
el smrtmnky
jasonelias
Posted 12:29 PM 12/7/08
@el smrtmnky: Yeah, they should pull a Rosalind Shays.
@kylo4: I've never seen someone so hell-bent at being a B Movie actress.
jasonelias
kylo4
Posted 12:06 PM 12/7/08
This is what she had planned though..To get killed off the show, taking her out of her contract so she could pursue a movie career. Damn I hate Heigl.
kylo4
Tiger_Tanaka
Posted 1:00 PM 12/7/08
Whatever it is, they should use a full body cast, head to toe, and cut her loose now. Or give her leprosy.
Tiger_Tanaka
inkydinkydo
Posted 3:27 PM 12/7/08
Flesh eating disease. Please?
inkydinkydo
wackiland
Posted 4:55 PM 12/7/08
I prefer the old "Suzanne Somers" treatment - you don't let her out of her contract, but "send her away" and make her come in once a week and shoot a scene where she is talking on the phone. Truly evil.
wackiland
mink
Posted 6:20 PM 12/7/08
I think it's time for a Very Special Ep where Mc-all of them accidentally blow the hospital up as they are too busy flirting to keep an eye on the gas.
If not...how great would it be if they had Heigl having elective plastic surgery that goes tragically wrong?
mink
Losin_it
Posted 11:05 PM 12/7/08
@wackiland: Right. And the plot justification for it can be truly ridiculous. Where is Izzy? She was kidnapped by a herd of politically dissatisfied alpacas in Nepal. She's in another dimension battling the forces of evil. She is on a deep cover assignment somewhere in Europe....it can be just anything.
Losin_it
Jim (The Canuck One)
Posted 10:46 AM 13/7/08
@el smrtmnky: Oh yes, it was done in LA Law about a 100 years ago so it should be safe to do again.
Jim (The Canuck One)
CourageousCoward
Posted 1:37 AM 14/7/08
A dream sequence full of Munchkins and the cast as various Wizard of Oz characters holding hands in a circle singing, "Ding, dong the witch is dead!"
CourageousCoward
Evil Tortie's Mom
Posted 10:57 AM 14/7/08
@wackiland: Perfect. And she'll have so much more time to work on her hubby!
@mink: These are maybe even better.
Evil Tortie's Mom
jmsmith76
Posted 12:18 PM 14/7/08
Can we get another a$$hole to shoot a warhead into a friend and have Izzy carry it down the hall this time?
jmsmith76
CourageousCoward
Posted 1:39 AM 15/7/08
@Hart88: Or she develops a predilection for necrophilia! (Which is ironic, because her husband probably feels like he sleeps with the dead.)
CourageousCoward
Hart88
Posted 1:08 AM 15/7/08
If Izzy really wants revenge, just keep her on the show; create an entire plot line around her as a hooker in her spare time, servicing old men and hobos. That should knock her down a few pegs.
Hart88
skc15
Posted 3:15 AM 15/7/08
I say they don't kill her off, but have her have a tragic accident (one involving a full-body cast), and have her come back, magically in the body of a different actress? Isn't there anyone else in hollywood that can play blond and annoying? Perhaps they can do the same to Meredith Grey while they're at it. That's it! A Thelma and Louise death wish double episode that puts them both in full body casts/comas until the show gets canceled.
skc15
Little Mintz Sunshine
Posted 4:19 AM 15/7/08
Don't give in and kill her, give her a huge Erica Kane "woe is me" story line. She'll be relegated to playing a pathetic loser who has to cry and wail for an entire season. Add to it by hiring a director she hates and by making most of her scenes EXT. RAINY SEATTLE STREET - NIGHT.
Little Mintz Sunshine
scoutastic
Posted 6:09 AM 15/7/08
Well, just how pissed off are they?
I say, keep her around. Give her something that makes her lose her voice (no lines) and/or some reason to take away her license. Or if we MUST go the disease route, how bout something that makes you put on 40 lbs?
And then always have her by herself, silently, in the background. Filling out forms, dispensing pills and sutures or mopping the floor.
Kill two careers with one stone.
BWAH-HAHAHAHAHA!
scoutastic