Dr. Preston Burke looks like a goner for good, now that creator Shonda Rhimes has given Isaiah Washington the boot from "Grey's Anatomy." The addictive med-sci soap set in Seattle recently wrapped its third season with an ending that left Washington's fate dangling.
Now we know his character has flat-lined, at least when it comes to employment at Seattle Grace.
Washington, who played the fiancé of Sandra Oh's Dr. Cristina Yang on the show, left Yang at the altar and cleared his possessions from their pad, leaving Oh sobbing hysterically.
ABC Television made it official that Washington will not rejoin the cast when they come back from hiatus. Washington's reaction to the rejection was something his character might have said upon being dissed for the role of chief of surgery: "I'm mad as hell and I'm not going to take it anymore."
He shouldn't sound so surprised; his ailment with ABC has been chronic this past season, with reports of an anti-gay slur against castmate T.R. Knight during an altercation with Dr. McDreamy, aka Patrick Dempsey, last fall. And then Washington put his foot in his mouth again backstage during January's Golden Globe Awards. He repeated his slur while trying to defend himself (bad, bad move), prompting another co-star, Katherine Heigl, to blast him in defense of her buddy (and on-screen love), Knight.
Unlike his skillful surgeon on the show, Washington flubbed and flopped through rehab, apologies and public service announcements trying to get back in the network's good graces. It looked as if the prognosis was good -- until the finale.
source : http://seattlepi.nwsource.com
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