If anyone wants to try to convince me that Patrick Dempsey is a shady d-bag, you really won’t have to spend too much time on it. I’m pretty much already there. Dempsey, as we all know, was abruptly written off Grey’s Anatomy last month. There were rumors that Shonda Rhimes had a falling out with Dempsey, there were rumors that Dempsey was acting like a diva, and there were rumors that Dempsey was the one to want out.

Less than a month later, we still don’t really know what happened. I haven’t been following it too closely, but my general sense is that while Dempsey was “surprised” that McDreamy was killed off, he was also sort of grateful because he was ready to move on. Plus, it really didn’t seem like there was any love lost between Shonda and Patrick. But here’s a new wrinkle – In Touch Weekly claims that Shonda wrote him off after cast members learned that Dempsey had an “inappropriate relationship” with a young staffer on the set of GA.

Grey’s Anatomy star Patrick Dempsey told reporters on Jan. 23 he was “spread so thin” because the ABC show had “been taking up a lot of time.” But now In Touch has exclusively learned the secret behind both his split from his wife of 15 years, Jillian Fink, and his sudden on-screen departure as Dr. Derek “McDreamy” Shepherd.

“Patrick had an inappropriate relationship with a young woman who worked on the set,” an insider exclusively reveals in the new issue of In Touch.

“[His co-star] Ellen Pompeo found out and was angry because she’s close friends with Jillian, so of course, she told her,” the insider explains, adding that the situation even led to McDreamy’s death on the show in April after the actress spilled what she knew to the show’s creator and executive producer, Shonda Rhimes. “Shonda has no patience for that kind of behavior.”

Though their characters seemed love-struck with each other on-screen, the source says that “there was tension in Patrick and Ellen’s relationship for years before the final blowup,” adding that Ellen “was sick of his behavior on and off set.”

In particular, she hated his relationship with the female co-worker, who is in her early 20s. “Patrick found out that Ellen told his wife about the relationship and totally lost it. They had a huge blowup on the set in front of everyone,” the insider reveals to In Touch.

After that battle, Shonda got involved. “Shonda fired Patrick,” says the insider. “He didn’t want to leave.” Though Patrick had more than a year left on his contract, the insider adds, “Producers didn’t want him causing trouble.”

[From In Touch Weekly]

I believe some of this story. Not all. As I said, I’m already in the mood to believe that Dempsey is a shady d-bag. I have no problem believing he was screwing around on his wife with many different women over the years, and that some of those women might have even worked on Grey’s Anatomy. I will also be willing to believe that Dempsey and Pompeo had a less-than-friendly relationship off-camera. But I don’t really believe Ellen Pompeo would get all up in Patrick’s business, even if he was carrying on with a staffer. Plus, when did this affair take place? Patrick and his wife announced their split in January of this year, after what I assumed was a pretty open marriage.

Now, if you want to tell me that Patrick had an affair with someone on the set and maybe the woman was threatening a lawsuit or something? And maybe that’s why Shonda found out and got rid of him? Sure, I’d believe that.

Photos courtesy of WENN.

Danielle Brooks is promoting the third seasion of Orange is the New Black. I’m looking forward to the show’s return and will try not to binge it too hard. (CB tried to make me watch it faster last time!) Brooks plays the tragic yet triumphant Taystee to a tee. There are so many classically trained actresses on the show, and Brooks is one of them (she graduated from Julliard). She’s 25 years old and broke onto the acting scene a few years ago with OITNB. With the spotlight came a return of her childhood body-image anxieties.

Danielle wrote a heartfelt essay for Glamour on size acceptance, both in Hollywood and in the “real world.” I left out a few paragraphs for brevity’s sake, but you can read the whole piece here. Some excerpts:

Being a teenager can be one of the hardest phases of a person’s life. For me, I struggled every day tricking myself into appearing confident. After reading over old journal entries, I realized some days were less successful than others. I came across one that took me aback. In this entry, I had written about how insecure I was about my weight. I wasn’t able to wear the flared jeans and cute tops the other girls wore–they didn’t come in my size. On top of that, I was dark-skinned and had natural hair. By the standard definition of beauty I had absorbed from the world around me, I had three strikes against me: I was too dark, too curly, and too fat.

Because of this insecurity, I was desperately unhappy. I was even having suicidal thoughts. But you wouldn’t have known it. The world saw a young teenage girl who was happy in her skin, laughed a lot, and didn’t care what anyone thought about her. The truth of the matter was I wasn’t happy in my skin; I laughed to hide my pain, and cared deeply what my peers thought of my appearance–to the point that I even was having suicidal thoughts. But you wouldn’t have known it.

I didn’t always feel so self-conscious. As a young girl, I was always a healthy kid but never a skinny kid. I didn’t know that there was anything “wrong” with my body until I was in middle school and a woman from church felt the spirit move her to tell me. As I walked home from Bible study one Wednesday night, she stopped me and exclaimed, “Danielle you’ve got stretch marks on your arms!” and proceeded to take her pointer finger and identify the four or five tiny lines that were starting to form. She continued, “You’re too young to be getting stretch marks,” though she was covered in them herself. And that’s when the cycle of judging myself began.

From that moment on, it was a long road to learning to love myself again. I dreamed of being an actor, but when I looked for reflections of myself on the screen, I found few … Ironically, achieving a measure of success in this field that gave me confidence threatened to shake the very foundation of that hard-earned self-worth. Being in the public eye magnifies my “imperfection” to an insane degree. Attending the Golden Globes for the first time, I was aware that the majority of the other actresses in the audience didn’t look like me. But you see, the average woman is a size 12 to 14. Those actresses don’t look like most women. I’m not saying those actresses should gain 30 pounds, but I am posing the question, that if art is supposed to reflect life then why don’t the red carpets and magazines reflect reality?

[From Glamour]

Danielle goes on to stress that she’s “no longer operating out of a place of fear.” She refuses to hide her body on the red carpet and will show off her arms (and sometimes her midriff) as “a reminder to myself and the world that I know I’m beautiful.” Damn straight, Danielle is gorgeous! Her sense of style is blossoming too. Her SAGs dress was one of my favorites of the evening. And yes, Danielle is correct that Hollywood should take more care to reflect reality in a lot of ways (including body types).

Photos courtesy of WENN

If you’re anything like me, the name “Ashley Benson” conjures a cartoonish “?????” thought-bubble. I know I’ve seen her before, and I’m pretty sure she’s been trying to break into bigger and better things for years now. Some cursory research indicates that Ashley was in that Spring Breakers movie (the one with Selena Gomez) and Ashley was on/is still on Pretty Little Liars. So… good for her. She had a steady gig on a CW show and she’s been working somewhat consistently in other film and TV projects. That still doesn’t make her a major celebrity though, and I question whether she was even worthy of the cover of Canada’s Fashion Magazine. But here we are. And I honestly would have ignored it except I glanced through her quotes and I had a good chuckle. You see, Ashley Benson wants you to know that she could never date high-profile men the same way Angelina Jolie has. Because similarities.

She can’t date like Angelina: “I don’t think I would be able to date a high-profile actor the way Angelina Jolie has. Her and Brad [Pitt] have done a good job at keeping private, but I’m sure that takes work. It’s too much attention when two powerful people are together.”

She hates the red carpet: “I hate the red carpet. It’s nerve-racking. People are yelling at you and pictures are being taken at all angles. It is not a comfortable thing for a human to experience!”

Her role in Spring Breakers: “My family hated the movie, but I told them, ‘There are going to be films that you are not going to want to support, but you don’t have to see those films.’ I wanted that challenge.”

J-Law is the coolest: “I think she’s the coolest person in the business. She’s breaking the mould of what Hollywood stars are supposed to act like. I look up to her so much. Actors should stop acting when the cameras are off.”

[From E! News]

I feel like people are going to nit-pick me about this, but just go back and re-read the Angelina quote. “It’s too much attention when two powerful people are together.” She is saying that she’s like Angelina, right? That she’s a powerful woman, just like Angelina, but Ashley “WHO?” Benson could never date a high-profile man, because Ashley Benson is just too famous and powerful already and it would just be too much power and celebrity in one relationship if she ever dated someone famous. Except I’m pretty sure she tried to “date” James Franco a while back, and no one even cared. My general takeaway: Ashley Benson would love it if you knew her name because of a connection to a famous person. She would love it if she was in Page Six as “Jake Gyllenhaal’s canoodling partner” or whatever.

So, congrats, Ashley Benson. I know your name now because you basically told the world that you wouldn’t date Brad Pitt because your combined star-power would be too much for the world to take.

Photos courtesy of WENN, Fashion Magazine.

Beyonce. MET Gala dress. How could you forget it?

According to US Weekly, it might not have been her first choice?

B was an hour late arriving at the event. According to an US source, she was delayed because she was online, checking what other people were wearing. And then decided to turn…      

Beyonce. MET Gala dress. How could you forget it?

According to US Weekly, it might not have been her first choice?

B was an hour late arriving at the event. According to an US source, she was delayed because she was online, checking what other people were wearing. And then decided to turn…      

Katy Perry and the deep blue fish tank.

????????Had a magical dinner with the tour watching the natural choreography of the beautiful sea life in one of the world’s largest aquariums at S.E.A Aquarium in Singapore???????? S/O #catcora #jason #pwtlife

A photo poste…      

Katy Perry and the deep blue fish tank.

????????Had a magical dinner with the tour watching the natural choreography of the beautiful sea life in one of the world’s largest aquariums at S.E.A Aquarium in Singapore???????? S/O #catcora #jason #pwtlife

A photo poste…      

For four weeks in a row now, Amy Schumer has been making some observations. Last night her observations focused on the late night talk show. How the host pervs out on the female guest. And how the female guest, well, behaves like Blake Lively with a double leg of Gwyneth Paltrow.

If the chara…      

For four weeks in a row now, Amy Schumer has been making some observations. Last night her observations focused on the late night talk show. How the host pervs out on the female guest. And how the female guest, well, behaves like Blake Lively with a double leg of Gwyneth Paltrow.

If the chara…      

The first trailer for Guillermo Del Toro’s much anticipated Crimson Peak introduced us to the creepy setting and not much else, but now the international trailer has arrived and it lays out a little more of the story. Mia Wasikowska plays a Victorian lady author who is interested in ghosts and th…