Isaiah Washington's Fired and He's Not Gonna Take It Anymore!
Guess that public service announcement didn’t help, huh Isaiah?
I’m not a Grey’s fan, so I don’t know how they wrote this into the story, but execs recently renewed T.R. Knight’s contract and chucked Isaiah Washington's.
Isaiah then said through his spokesperson, “I'm mad as hell, and I'm not going to take it anymore.” Don’t worry, Isaiah. You don’t have to! And why did his publicist release that? Isn’t it his job to cover up those kinds of statements?
Anyway, rumors flew that ABC canned Isaiah for choking Patrick Dempsey on the set of the show and calling T.R. a fag – twice.
Isaiah’s spokesperson, Howard Bragman, complained to TV Guide that they’re considering legal action against ABC, though it’s too early to say for sure, adding, "If they wanted to fire him, why didn't they fire him when [the incident] happened? Why did they say, 'Here's what you need to do if you want to come back' and then, when he did everything that was asked of him, he still gets fired.”
After the F-bomb double-whammy, Isaiah quickly ate s***, “underwent counseling” and did a bit for the Gay & Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation, warning about the damaging power of hateful words.
Apparently that wasn’t good enough for ABC, after all. As you can probably tell, I’m not that broken up about this!

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