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Grey’s Anatomy star T.R. Knight has defended his decision to date a man 16 years his junior - insisting they “love each other”.

Knight, 35, has been involved with 19-year-old Mark Cornelson since February and the age gap has put their romance under intense scrutiny.

But the actor is convinced that although some people might take a negative view - it doesn’t matter because their relationship is so special.

He tells People.com, “It’s bound to raise some eyebrows but we love each other. (He is) an amazing guy. I love being around him. I love what we have.”

Knight admits that although it is too soon to think about a wedding, he definitely thinks his relationship with Cornell will last.

He adds, “We’ve only known each other for six months, so I think it’s a little soon to consider marriage. I don’t think you date anyone that you don’t see a future with.”

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Even though Grey’s Anatomy star T.R. Knight recently told reporters that he and boyfriend Mark Cornelson are “not having a commitment ceremony, ” multiple sources are telling OK! the couple have every intention of getting hitched.

According to the whispers going around Hollywood, the 35-year-old actor, who was forced to come out of the closet in October 2006 after some on-set drama on the hit ABC medical drama, could say “I do” to his 19-year-old beau as early as tonight. Additionally, insiders tell OK! that the ceremony itself will be at a trendy West Hollywood hotspot.

“It’s going to be a big celebration,” one insider says about the event.

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T.R. Knight and beau Mark Cornelsen won’t be following Ellen DeGeneres and Portia De Rossi down the aisle just yet – but they are happily living together.

“Mark just moved here from San Francisco,” Knight gushed to Usmagazine.com at the Butterfly Ball in L.A. Saturday.

The Grey’s Anatomy star dismissed rumors they’re planning to wed and that he’ll officiate a commitment ceremony.

“To clarify, we are not having a commitment ceremony and I am not performing a commitment ceremony,” he told Us.

Knight said the recent legalization of gay marriage in California gave him an “extraordinary feeling.”

“Once you are given something that you were never allowed before, you realize how much of a second class person you were before,” he told Us. “That is horrible and fantastic at the same time. It makes me want to sob and scream with joy all at the same time.”

“The floodgates have been opened they will never be closed,” Cornelsen added.

Despite his youth, Cornelsen, 19, has received a warm welcome from Knight’s Grey’s Anatomy castmates.

“Someone in particular, I won’t mention names told me, ‘You know I like him more than I like you, right?’” the actor, 35, joked. “They said it about three or four times so it’s kind of not as funny as it was the first time anymore.”

“They love him,” Knight said. “They’re like, ‘When is he coming?’ They want him there.”

“They’re all wonderful and so sweet,” Cornelson raved to Us. “It’s amazing.”

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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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The two had been in Paris promoting Katherine’s new movie, “27 Dresses.”

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