gt22

Nov 4 2008, 05:09 PM

For your reading pleasure! The bit about Brooke kids made me smile …

Rumours began to swirl when Ramirez was spotted in NYC looking at apartments this past weekend and the sudden termination of Brooke Smith, one half of the Callica couple (Callie/Erica), only adds to the mystique surrounding what is really going on over at ABC.

A source who is close to the actress would only say, "Sara really supports the gay and lesbian communities so she's not really happy by what has gone on. She was extremely close to Brooke Smith, so close in fact, that she has spent a lot of time with Brooke's children. (Smith has a five year old daughter and a newly adopted baby girl from Ethiopia)."

Sources close to the set claim that T.R. Knight, a homosexual man who has felt the sting of workplace adversity, was so angered by Brooke's firing that he became too ill to complete the filming of the then current episode. Sly watchers will notice that Knight's 'George O'Malley' character was rarely seen in the episode called 'Life During Wartime'. Evidence suggests that it was during the filming of this episode that the cast and crew found out that Brooke was being terminated.

While it has not been implicitly confirmed that the decision to terminate Brooke Smith came down from the ABC execs, in an interview with Michael Ausiello, Smith seemed to imply that Shonda Rhimes (series creator, producer, and writer) was not happy with the decision. Shrouded by a thin veil, the goings on behind the scenes at Grey's Anatomy seem to play out in the public eye more often than not. (Most recently was Isaiah Washington's derogatory slur and Heigl's anger at the writing for her character: Izzie Stevens).

With no official word from Shonda Rhimes beyond stating that Smith's termination was not due to the fact that she was playing a lesbian, fans are understandably jarred. Perhaps the person who needs to be the most worried, however, is Sara Ramirez. In the same press release, Rhimes said that Ramirez's character - Calliope Torres - is the show's lesbian.

We see what happened to the last lesbian, Ms. Rhimes.

It's no wonder Sara Ramirez is apartment shopping on the other side of the country. Run from the madness, Lady of the Lake, and submerge yourself once again in the welcome waters of Broadway. Perhaps they will appreciate you more there