Ellen Pompeo Fun Facts, Quotes and Tweets
18th September 2016
Quote: "A lot of scenes you don't see my kids, I'm sitting around on a couch drinking all the time - things that I would never do with children! I don't think Meredith is really a parent!" Grey's Anatomy star Ellen Pompeo insists her real-life parenting style is vastly different from that of her onscreen character.
18th September 2016
Quote: "I'm probably a little over-protective, a little overbearing. I tell my daughter how amazing she is probably a little too much!" Actress Ellen Pompeo admits she spoils her eldest daughter Stella, seven, after losing her own mother to a drug overdose at the age of five.
14th May 2015
Fact: GREY'S ANATOMY star Ellen Pompeo has been added to the star-studded cast of Taylor Swift's new music video Bad Blood, which will premiere at the beginning of the 2015 Billboard Music Awards on Sunday (17May15). The actress will appear alongside Swift's model pals Karlie Kloss, Gigi Hadid, Lily Aldridge and Martha Hunt, hitmakers Ellie Goulding and Kendrick Lamar and fellow actresses Lena Dunham, Jessica Alba and Hailee Steinfeld.
5th March 2015
Quote: "She loves coming to set. She goes to our medical producer's office and plays with fake organs. I went in the other day and found her holding a bone drill, drilling a fake femur bone. They have her doing advanced procedures!" Grey's Anatomy star Ellen Pompeo's five-year-old daughter Stella wants to become an emergency room doctor when she grows up.
3rd October 2014
Quote: "We get in trouble all the time on the show for saying vagina. You can say penis but not vagina. It's a whole standards and practices thing." Ellen Pompeo reveals the cast of Tv medical drama Grey's Anatomy have to be careful what they say.
4th August 2014
Fact: Jessica Alba, Lea Michele, Stevie Wonder, Zachary Quinto, Ellen Pompeo and pregnant Kelly Rowland were among the stars in the audience for the second night of Jay Z and Beyonce's On The Run tour stop at Los Angeles' Rose Bowl on Sunday (03Aug14). The hip-hop supercouple also delighted fans at the same venue on Saturday (02Aug14).
2nd March 2012
Quote: "We are literally like brother and sister so it does get awkward... We don't use tongue, but you have to open your mouth a little bit to make it look real and sell it." Grey's Anatomy star Ellen Pompeo on her love scenes with co-star Patrick Dempsey.
1st March 2012
Quote: "I don't think that's happening." Actress Ellen Pompeo pours doubt on her former co-star Katherine Heigl's plans for a return to TV medical drama Grey's Anatomy.
9th March 2011
Quote: "She won a Tony (Award) for Spamalot, so can really sing. She does the bulk of the singing." Grey's Anatomy star Ellen Pompeo reveals Sara Ramirez is the big star of the show's upcoming musical episode.
7th November 2010
Quote: "I suppose girls love that whole white dress fantasy thing. Me, I got married in black and thigh-high leather boots." Actress Ellen Pompeo wasn't a conventional bride.
6th November 2010
Quote: "High heels and two glasses of wine aren't the best combination." GREY'S ANATOMY star Ellen Pompeo on her recent foot injury, which has left her hobbling around Hollywood.
3rd February 2010
Quote: “Chris - he loves dressing her up like him. He goes out and buys her clothes that look like his clothes.” GREY'S ANATOMY star Ellen Pompeo reveals her husband CHRIS IVERY likes their new baby daughter Stella to dress like him. The couple welcomed the tot in September (09).
21st September 2009
Quote: "There may be some bambinos (babies) in my future. I hope so, I would love that." Actress Kate Walsh is broody around her GREY'S ANATOMY co-stars, expectant mum Ellen Pompeo and Katherine Heigl, who welcomed her adopted daughter with husband Josh Kelley earlier this month (Sep09).
18th February 2009
Quote: "Last Valentine's Day we went to the Bahamas with PUFFY (Sean Combs)... So you're in the suite James Bond was (filmed) in, and then you've got Sean 'Diddy' Puffy Combs and my husband (music producer CHRIS IVERY) traipsing around the house in white bathrobes likes they're James Bond." GREY'S ANATOMY actress Ellen Pompeo on one of her most memorable holidays.
3rd February 2009
Quote: "You can ingest these parasitic worms in uncooked food, so now Im afraid to eat sushi." GREY'S ANATOMY star Ellen Pompeo doesn't appreciate everything she's learning on the medical drama.
18th January 2008
Quote: "It sucks. It's terrible. Our life is very difficult." GREY'S ANATOMY star Ellen Pompeo jokes about married life. She wed fiance Christopher Ivery in November (07) in a low-key ceremony.
15th November 2007
Fact: Newlywed GREY'S ANATOMY star Ellen Pompeo and husband CHRIS IVERY celebrated their low-key nuptials on Friday (09Nov07) by attending a New York Knicks basketball game. The new Mr. and Mrs. Ivery have no immediate honeymoon plans.
16th June 2007
Quote: "When T.R. (KNIGHT) came out, I did cry. Such tremendous courage. Most people don't have to come out to the world like that." Ellen Pompeo on her co-star's announcement he was gay following the onset fight, in which now-sacked actor Isaiah Washington `outed' him.
16th January 2007
Quote: "Poor thing. He doesn't have (wife) JILL tonight. She's having twins and she's on bedrest. She's due very soon, so she has to take care of herself and the babies. He'll be missing her all night long. I'll have to hear about how much he misses her!" GREY'S ANATOMY star Ellen Pompeo admits her pre-Golden Globe fears that she'll have to listen to lonely co-star Patrick Dempsey's har-luck story all night.
16th January 2007
Quote: "Poor thing. He doesn't have (wife) JILL tonight. She's having twins and she's on bedrest. She's due very soon, so she has to take care of herself and the babies. He'll be missing her all night long. I'll have to hear about how much he misses her!" GREY'S ANATOMY star Ellen Pompeo admits her pre-Golden Globe fears that she'll have to listen to lonely co-star Patrick Dempsey's har-luck story all night.
28th May 2006
Quote: "It was the last scene of the last episode on the last day... and everybody was just looking at their watches, going, 'When is this going to be over... and when do the panties drop again? Where's the light? Move the knee, no the other knee.'" Patrick Dempsey insists his steamy love scene with GREY'S ANATOMY co-star Ellen Pompeo in the season finale was far from sensual.
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