ABC has gotten around to responding to Isaiah Washington’s use of a gay slur at the Golden Globes, and, no, they’re not at all happy about it.

The ABC statement, according to TV Guide’s Michael Ausiello, says, in part, “We are greatly dismayed that Mr. Washington chose to use such inappropriate language at the Golden Globes, language that he himself deemed ‘unfortunate’ in his public apology issued at the time of the original incident. We have a long standing policy to create and maintain respectful workplaces for all our employees, and his actions are being addressed.”

Washington said he had “never” called gay castmate T.R. Knight “a faggot” after Monday’s Golden Globes. Knight told Ellen DeGeneres that he had in fact heard Washington use the term during a scuffle with Patrick Dempsey on the set of “Grey’s Anatomy.”

It is unclear when the network will make a decision on Washington’s future on the show.

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Honestly, I couldn’t care LESS if Isaiah get’s the boot.  His character on GA drives me NUTS.  I think he totally overacts most of the time.  He’s annoying, and I think ABC should kill his character off, then use his body for science.  But that’s just my opinion.

In the Globes press room on Monday, Washington tried to set the record straight in regards to reports in October of an on-set incident that resulted from the alleged use of a homophobic slur toward co-star T.R. Knight.

After a reporter questioned the validity of the on-set incident, Washington denied his involvement saying, “No, I did not call T.R. a faggot. Never happened, never happened.”

In response to Washington’s use of the slur when addressing the situation last night, Heigl spoke out.

“I’m going to be really honest right now, he needs to just not speak in public. Period. I’m sorry, that did not need to be said, I’m not okay with it,” Katherine told Shaun.

When asked if she thought it was just an off-the-cuff remark, Heigl added, “I have no idea what it was, I just find it hurtful…I just feel like this is something that should be very much in house we need to deal with and it’s among us and the cast and crew and among Shonda [Rimes, show creator] and the producers.”

Heigl said that she hoped they work the situation out, making her loyalty to Knight, who plays Dr. George O’Malley on the hit show, clear.

“I don’t think [Washington] means it the way he comes off…But, T.R. is my best friend. I will throw down for that kid. I will beat you up. I will use every ounce of energy I have to take you down if you hurt his feelings,” she said.

When asked if she thought Knight was hurt by Washington’s comments she added, “I don’t see how you could not be under those circumstances. Drawing attention to it and saying the word again is just unnecessary.”

After making his comments in the press room, Washington came straight to Access Hollywood’s Billy Bush and Nancy O’Dell to explain.

“There is no way I could do anything so vile, and so horrible, not only to a castmate, but to a fellow human being,” he insisted.

When asked what spurred his comments on the October incident Washington told Bush, “It’s the truth. It did not happen. I was going to hire some other great shiny publicist, but you know what, God laid it on my heart to say it because it was so close. The reports were all wrong. It did not happen. I’m very disappointed that the New York Post actually wrote legitimately about something that was put in a tabloid about some angry person to get some validity to this, and then it just rippled.”

Washington also said that he and co-star Patrick Dempsey have moved beyond the October incident.

“I kiss Patrick Dempsey. We sing ‘Ebony and Ivory’ everyday since the so-called incident and it hasn’t come up. We purposely sing ‘Ebony and Ivory’ every night since October 9 and nobody has written about it,” he added.

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I’m DYING without any good tv!! Okay, that totally made me sound like I have no life.  I guess I kinda don’t. 

At the end of the day - after working, making dinner, bathing the boys, brushing their teeth and putting them to bed (which is quite an event)…I feel like all I want to do is watch tv.  Is that so wrong!? Is that so horrible!?

Give me some freakin tv!  And not just any tv will do…I’m a tv snob. I actually need DECENT tv to entertain me.  Which is why I need Grey’s Anatomy, Brothers & Sisters, LOST, Prison Break, Desperate Housewives, Survivor, The Soprano’s, The Duel, Men in Trees, ER, and Studio 60 (to name a few). 

Don’t try and give me crap like ”Dirt”.  That show sucked balls. I need some good ol’ entertainment.  I need some love triangles…some Exile Island…some steamy McDreamy’s.

Look what we’ve got waiting for us on the next episode of Grey’s Anatomy….coming next Thursday!!

He’s the best thing that ever happened to Grey’s Anatomy.

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The cast of the television hospital drama “Grey’s Anatomy” tops Entertainment Weekly’s list of the year’s top entertainers because of their cultural impact, the magazine said.

Entertainment Weekly’s year-end issue hits U.S. newsstands starting Friday with its widely watched lists of the year’s top picks in movies, music, television, books and many other categories.

A video Web site, two fake journalists and a veteran actress also rated highly on the magazine’s lists.

Entertainment Weekly said the cast of “Grey’s” — McDreamy, McSteamy and all the others — led the chart of top entertainers because they had a cultural impact beyond their show’s roughly 20 million weekly viewers. In addition, the episodes — filled with sexual affairs and career problems — sparked chatter around offices, schools and homes across the United States.

“‘Grey’s’ isn’t just a show, it’s a phenomenon,” said Entertainment Weekly Executive Editor Lori Majewski.

“Back in May when last season’s final show aired, every place in New York City was empty. You could get a table at the best restaurants,” she said.

YouTube, the wildly popular Web site where people post videos of anything from themselves singing to comedian Michael Richards shouting racial epithets, made the list because it too had a cultural impact beyond its cyberspace borders.

The Richards incident sparked discussions of when comics should and should not use the “N-word” when commenting on black Americans.

Likewise, comedian Sacha Baron Cohen’s character Borat Sagdiyev, a politically incorrect TV reporter from Kazakhstan, forced Americans to take a hard look at themselves — warts and all — in his hit film, “Borat: Cultural Learnings of America for Make Benefit Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan.”

“He held up a mirror to America,” Majewski said.

But not all the year’s top entertainers had such a serious edge. Streep turned in strong performances in two very different movies — the musical drama “The Prairie Home Companion” and the comedy “The Devil Wears Prada.”

Other top entertainers included the new James Bond, Daniel Craig, singers Justin Timberlake and Beyonce, British actress Helen Mirren and Stephen Colbert, host of the television news spoof “The Colbert Report.”

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