Grey’s Anatomy star Patrick Dempsey was forced to wear a kilt for new movie Made of Honor - but had to shun tradition and put on some underwear, after his private parts were attacked by insects.

The actor was filming in Scotland and was happy to don the country’s native dress, which is often worn without undergarments.

Dempsey was determined to wear his kilt in an authentic manner, but found himself covered in bites from local winged flies - forcing him to go back to wearing underwear to protect his most delicate area.

He says, “I wore a kilt for the wedding scenes, but had to wear something underneath. I tried nothing but I was bitten all over by midges.”

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Grey’s Anatomy star Patrick Dempsey has quit smoking on the eve of the launch of a new cancer treatment centre he has funded in his home town.

The actor has donated $250,000 of his own money to a new cancer centre at the Central Maine Medical Center in Lewiston, Maine. And, as he planned to cut the ribbon on the new Patrick Dempsey Center for Cancer Hope and Healing on 31 March, the actor decided it was time to stop smoking.

And he’s already a fervent anti-smoker. The 42-year-old says, “The thought of smoking now is absolutely ridiculous and I think more people have to quit smoking. “There was a defining moment (for me); I remember being outside and I took a puff and I was like, ‘You know what, it doesn’t taste good anymore to me. This is not what I want to do, and it stopped.”

Patrick Dempsey may not be a real doctor, but that isn’t stopping him from helping save lives!

Yesterday, the Grey’s Anatomy star, 42, gave the Central Maine Medical Center — in his hometown of Lewiston — $250,000 for a spanking new cancer center.

The CMMC has special meaning for Dr. McDreamy: Not only was he born in the hospital, but his mom, Amanda, has been treated there twice for ovarian cancer, which is now in remission.

Dubbed The Patrick Dempsey Center for Cancer Hope & Healing, the facility opens March 31. Oh, and one more heartwarming note: the center will be managed by Patrick’s sister, Mary Dempsey!

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The self-confessed serial monogamist tells ET, “I love romance, absolutely.” But the “Grey’s Anatomy” star, who has been married for eight years, admits that his proposal to wife Jillian was done “poorly.” “We just bought this house and we were in the middle of remodeling it and the kitchen was a mess,” he explains. “I kept giving her this line where I had to find the right ring, and I finally found it while she was gone and I couldn’t wait, so I popped the question in the kitchen!”

Patrick Dempsey says he is looking forward to reuniting with his “Grey’s Anatomy” co-stars when they return to work, “I’m glad the strike is over. It was nice to take a break and take a deep breath, spend time with my family. We had some date nights. I really needed that. It’s been good for me, but I’m glad were going back to work.”

On what’s in store for the rest of the season, “I think we’ll probably do four or five episodes and that will be the end of the season.”

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There’s a doctor in the house of Versace. Patrick Dempsey, aka Dr. McDreamy of “Grey’s Anatomy,” cuts a strikingly modern figure in Versace’s spring ad campaign, set to bow in the February editions of select fashion and lifestyle magazines. The campaign was shot by Mario Testino last November in Los Angeles.

Dempsey wears a slim, two-button chocolate brown suit; a white button-down (true button-front for Quinn) shirt, and a deep purple tie in several of the images. The background is clean white, save for a few moody shadows.

In other photos he sports sleek sunglasses, a bit of scruff and a broken-in leather jacket. “I discovered that Patrick is a man who is not afraid to like or even love fashion,” Donatella Versace said. “He’s got extremely refined taste.”

Dempsey is the latest celebrity to pose for chez Versace. Others have included Jonathan Rhys Meyers, and on the women’s side, Demi Moore and Madonna, among others.

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Patrick Dempsey has declined his invitation to Grey’s Anatomy co-star Katherine Heigl’s wedding in favor of spending the holiday with his family.

Heigl, 29, is set to marry singer Josh Kelley, 27, on December 23rd. “I am so happy for her,” he tells Entertainment Tonight’s.

“I’ve never seen her so happy,” he added. “He’s a great guy, too, and they are a great couple.”

Dempsey, 41, will be spending the holiday with his wife Jill, daughter Tallulah, & 10-month-old twins Darby and Sullivan.

“It’s the first Christmas with the boys. They’ll be walking by then, so we’re excited,” he tells ET. Dempsey might be a no-show, but Grey’s will be represented at the wedding by castmate T.R. Knight, who will be Heigl’s bridesman.

What do we think about the term “bridesman”? As a chica with more guy friends than gal, I think I may be one of the few to have a bridesman (or two) at my own wedding!