Finding Their Person! ‘Grey’s Anatomy’ Cast’s Dating Histories

“Choose me, select me, love me.” Gray’s Anatomy has made an artwork kind out of bringing fictional {couples} collectively and tearing them aside. In actual life, the forged’s romantic ventures will not be at all times so dramatic.

Ellen Pompeo and Patrick Dempsey’s Meredith Gray and Derek Shepherd are probably the most beloved duo within the ABC drama’s historical past. For the reason that present started in March 2005, followers have been rooting for the pair, even after Derek was killed off in season 11. Though the actor left the sequence in 2015, viewers acquired to revisit his relationship with Meredith 5 years later when his character returned through dream sequences in season 17.

The Enchanted star informed Deadline in November 2020 that it felt “very particular” and “actually comfy” to movie scenes with Pompeo once more.

“It’s like using a motorbike. We simply have a chemistry and a dynamic that’s at all times served us properly, and I feel we’ve real affection for one another,” the actress chimed in. “It was very therapeutic to come back again and know that we’re doing one thing good, placing out a optimistic story, a therapeutic story, going to make folks smile.”

Whereas followers have loved watching Meredith fall out and in of affection through the years, Pompeo’s husband, Chris Ivery, was not thrilled when he found simply how steamy the present is. The couple met roughly six months earlier than she filmed the Gray’s Anatomy pilot.

“Poor man had no concept what he was stepping into,” the Catch Me If You Can actress defined throughout a July 2021 episode of the “Women First With Laura Brown” podcast.

As followers applauded Pompeo and Dempsey for his or her chemistry, Ivery struggled with their romantic scenes. “I bear in mind to start with it was actually arduous for him,” she revealed. “He was like, ‘This isn’t what I signed up for. You’re kissing a man — you go to work and make out with that. I like Patrick and the whole lot, he’s a very good dude, however, like, actually?’”

The celebrity that got here with the present’s success additionally involved the music producer initially. “It was loads for him at first. He was actually a trooper, I’ve to say,” the Massachusetts native famous. “He’s my favourite individual.”

Regardless of the drawbacks to the gig, Pompeo divulged in August 2020 that it has put her in a greater place in terms of her private life.

“I made selections to remain on the present. For me, personally, a wholesome residence life was extra vital than profession,” she stated on the “Jemele Hill Is Unbothered” podcast. “I didn’t develop up with a very glad childhood. So to have a cheerful residence life was actually one thing I wanted to finish to shut the outlet in my coronary heart.”

Scroll by the gallery under to discover the Gray’s Anatomy forged’s relationship histories.