T.R. Knight's former Grey's Anatomy costar Melissa George confirms he's leaving the show.
"Yes, he is," George told Us when asked at last night's Whitney Contemporaries Art Party and Auction in NYC.
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Yesterday, a source told Us that Knight was released from his contract this week. The source added that show creator Shonda Rimes had until June 30 to decide Knight's fate, but the actor went directly to the network to ask to be released early.
"He's had enough of Shonda and ABC," the source said. "He decided to take back his powers."
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George is proud of Knight, who played George O'Malley on the medical drama. (On the season finale, he appeared to have died after being hit by a bus.) "He's one of my best friends," she tells Us. "I feel great for him."
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What's next for him? "Oh, everything. He's had a good week. I'm not saying anything," she teases.
Entertainment Weekly — which also reported the news of his departure — says the actor is in talks to headline the Broadway revival of Lend Me a Tenor in 2010. George hints: "We just went to see two Broadway shows in the last two days. That's something great, you know? For him."
As for Katherine Heigl's fate, she admits: "I don't know yet."
Heigl, who plays Izzie Stevens, went unconscious after having surgery to treat her brain cancer in the last moments of the season finale.
James Pickens Jr (Chief Richard Webber) told Us in February that she was leaving the show as well.
