Now Washington stays and TR Knight goes?

Somebody oughta keep the Grey’s Anatomy cast away from award shows. Isaiah Washington wound up in homophobia rehab because of his behaviour at the Golden Globes. Now, the morning after the cast won the Screen Actors Guild award for best ensemble in a TV drama, comes word that one of them is planning to quit.

T.R. Knight, the softie Dr. O’Malley, became an overnight star in October when he announced his homosexuality, shortly after his Washington allegedly called him a “faggot” during a scuffle on the set. Now sources on the show say that T.R. “is so upset about the situation and so disgusted by how it was all handled,” that he’s leaving the show.It was the night the cast won a Golden Globe a couple of weeks back that the whole backstage soap opera blew up again. Washington blurted the slur again while denying he said it in the first place. Knight ran off to The Ellen DeGeneres Show to call him a liar. Washington wound up with his job on the line.

Jeannette Walls over at MSNBC quotes a show insider saying that Knight had been ordered by his bosses to keep quiet about the original incident, and now “feels that the atmosphere there is so toxic and unhealthy… he’s planning to leave the show.”

Knight’s spokesman says the story is “completely, one thousand percent false.” An ABC flak tells MSNBC that “rumors of T. R. Knight’s departure from the show are irrefutably untrue.”

Judging by the history of this overplayed affair, we can assume it’s a done deal and T.R. Knight is leaving Grey’s Anatomy.

–Tabloid Baby