Patrick Dempsey Reacts to Ellen Pompeo’s Gray’s Anatomy Exit

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McDreamy can not help however crack some jokes about Meredith Gray hanging up her stethoscope. Simply hours after Ellen Pompeo shared an emotional message to followers about her forthcoming departure from “Gray’s Anatomy,” longtime costar Patrick Dempsey reacted to the information on “Jimmy Kimmel Stay.”

Host Kimmel breached the subject by telling Dempsey, “She’s leaving the present. I do not know for those who heard — she acquired caught stealing Band-Aids from the set.” With out hesitation, the “Disenchanted” star went together with the bit, quipping, “Did she actually? Lastly they caught her. Are you able to think about what she’d have in her home now from 19 seasons? A full hospital within the basement.”

On Nov. 17, Pompeo preemptively bid adieu to followers earlier than her function within the medical drama drastically scales again within the new 12 months. “I’m eternally grateful and humbled by the love and help you could have all proven me, Meredith GREY and the present for 19 seasons!” the actor wrote on Instagram. “By way of all of it . . . none of it . . . would have been doable with out the very best followers on the planet. You all are RIDERS and also you all have made the trip so enjoyable and ICONIC!! I like you madly and respect you proper again.”

Meredith will seem within the winter premiere of “Gray’s Anatomy” on Feb. 23 to have fun her final day at Gray Sloan Memorial Hospital earlier than shifting to Boston to analysis a treatment for Alzheimer’s illness. However in true “Gray’s Anatomy” style, it seemingly will not be her final time on the long-running ABC collection, as Pompeo hinted she could pop up once more sooner or later. “This is not your first time on the rollercoaster,” the mom of three added on Instagram. “You understand the present should go on and I am going to undoubtedly be again to go to.” Present creator Shonda Rhimes echoed an analogous sentiment in her personal Instagram tribute to Pomepo that learn, “This is not a goodbye, it is a see ya later!”

Although Pompeo will proceed narrating “Gray’s Anatomy” episodes and stay an government producer, she’ll be spending a lot of her time engaged on an untitled Hulu restricted collection about an adoption story that goes awry. As for Dempsey, who exited the present in 2015 after 11 seasons of portraying heartthrob Dr. Derek Shepherd and Pompeo’s onscreen husband, he is nonetheless grateful for his time within the halls of Gray Sloan. “It is superb the ability of that present and the way lengthy it is lasted and the impression it is had all over the world,” he informed Kimmel on Nov. 17. “It is modified my life profoundly, [and] my household’s.”