Katherine Heigl is set to star in and produce the movie adaptation of Escape, Carolyn Jessop’s best-selling memoir.

Jessop was born into the Fundamentalist Church of Latter Day Saints sect, where polygamy was the norm. By the time she was in the fourth grade, her father had three wives. At 18 she married a man 32 years her senior; at 35, she fled with her eight children.

Last year, the sect’s leader, Warren Jeffs, was found guilty of being an accessory to rape for forcing a 14-year-old girl in the group to marry her 19-year-old cousin, and Jessop’s testimony helped convict him.

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Just weeks after “Grey’s Anatomy” returned with new episodes, sources are saying Katherine Heigl is itching to hang up her scrubs. “She’s working really long hours and is ready to move on,” a source close to the actress told Us Weekly.

Fifteen months ago, Heigl renegotiated her “Grey’s” contract. The net result from that: Because the negotiations went public and she got the raise she wanted from the show, Heigl proved she wasn’t about to become an of-the-moment primetime star. Additionally, Heigl has had tremendous big-screen success with her leading roles in “Knocked Up” and “27 Dresses.”

“She’s a smart one. She saw what can happen with someone like Jennifer Aniston, who was crazy successful on TV, but can’t seem to carry a film, and she tested the waters early,” said a movie industry source.

Even so, Heigl might be locked into “Grey’s” a bit longer. “I don’t think she’ll be able to get out of it,” the US source said of Heigl’s contract.

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Grey’s Anatomy star Katherine Heigl was shocked to find out her co-star and friend TR Knight was gay – because she had spent the show’s pilot flirting with him.

The Knocked Up actress was single when shooting began on the hit US show and says that the 35-year-old caught her eye.

She says, ‘When we were filming the pilot I was single and so was he and I kind of had my eye on him. I was getting nowhere and I was super-confused. I was like, “Hello? Do I have something hanging out of my nose? Why aren’t you paying any attention to me?” Needless to say, it quickly became a friendship once he told me.’

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Katherine Heigl goes to Beverly Center with her husband Josh Kelley in L.A., yesterday.

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Knocked Up star Katherine Heigl has formed a production company with her mother – just in case her acting career fails.

The 29-year-old aims to become a movie producer when she is no longer offered high profile film roles, and has set up Abishag Productions with her mom Nancy so she has a job to fall back on. And Heigl is confident her shrewd business move will pay off.

She says, “I would like to have Meryl Streep’s career and keep working for the rest of my life – but that isn’t always the case. “It’s different for women in this industry. If I have another 10 to 15 years left, I’ll be lucky. Then I hope I can still produce. I would love to do that. “Which is why my mother and I have set up our own production company.”

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