As Michael Ausiello over at Entertainment Weekly put it – Callie’s new girlfriend is a keeper! Grey’s Anatomy has signed actress Jessica Capshaw, who plays pediatrician Arizona Robbins, to a contract, sources confirm to EW exclusively.

The deal calls for Capshaw to appear in all remaining episodes this season with an option to return as a series regular next fall. She was initially signed for only three episodes, but the possibility existed that it could turn into something more permanent.

EW writes:

News of Capshaw’s promotion should silence critics who sounded the anti-gay alarm after ABC kindly asked Grey’s creator Shonda Rhimes to banish Callie’s first girlfriend, the brusque and ballsy Dr. Hahn (played by Brooke Smith), to the hospital’s parking lot. “The character was not working for us and the relationship was not working for us,” Alphabet prez Steve McPherson acknowledged last month at press tour.

The whole Grey’s Anatomy cast seemed to be present at this year’s Chrysalis Butterfly Ball. Pictured above is Sara Ramirez, who said she found it “interesting” that the writers chose to end the season by leaving unclear the fate of T.R. Knight and Isaiah Washington.

Once Kate Walsh leaves to star in her own spin-off, the set of Grey’s Anatomy just won’t be the same, says her costar Sara Ramirez.

“I think she is amazing, and I am going to miss her to death,” Ramirez said Wednesday at a party in New York for People En Espanol’s “50 Most Beautiful” issue.

“Kate is an enormously talented woman, and I think she is so much fun to watch,” added Ramirez. “I wish her continued success.”

Walsh’s character, Dr. Addison Montgomery-Shepherd, is leaving Seattle Grace for a new life in California as the basis for her new show, Private Practice.

Asked about Walsh’s real-life plans to marry Alex Young, a production co-president at 20th Century Fox, Ramirez says: “They’re lovely people. I hope it’ll be a beautiful wedding.”

Source: People.com

Tony award winning actress Sara Ramirez, aka Callie O’Malley on Grey’s Anatomy, has recently signed a deal to record her own album.

According to TV Guide, she’ll be spending her summer break from Grey’s in the studio recording the album. But the season of Grey’s isn’t over yet, so what’s in store for the newlywed because from what I can see, things are not going along swimmingly in her marriage to George.
“Callie is just showing up doing her job, oblivious to everything,” says Ramirez. So will she call it quits after discovering George slept with ex-model Izzie? “I think she knows her relationship with George is in sort of a delicate place,” she hints. “But she’s a strong lady. She knows what she wants so I’m sure she’ll go to any lengths to get it!”

A week after Katherine Heigl slammed her employers over issues surrounding her stalled contract renegotiations, her Grey’s Anatomy costars are saying they enjoy working with the actress.

“She’s a super-talented girl,” Kate Walsh told PEOPLE on Sunday at the National Association of Black Female Executives in Music and Entertainment Dreamgirls luncheon in Beverly Hills. “Everyone’s just working hard.”

As for contract renegotiations Walsh, whose character Addison Shepard is the subject of a possible Grey’s spinoff, said, ” I literally just worked with Katherine the other night. We just go to work. I don’t know – I don’t really get into all the stuff. Everybody is doing their own thing with negotiations.”

One of Heigl’s other costars, Sara Ramirez, says of the actress who plays Izzie Stevens on the hit ABC show, “She’s lovely….Everybody’s very professional – not just Katherine – but everybody else too.”

Added Ramirez, “At the end of the day, we all have to be grateful for our jobs. We’re working actors, and not only that, we’re on a hit show.”

Last week, Heigl’s contract negations became public, and she eventually issued a statement criticizing ABC and Touchstone, saying she was “embarrassed” and had been treated with disrespect.

“I am embarrassed that this has become a public matter and disappointed that Touchstone felt it necessary to divulge private employment information,” Heigl said in the statement. “I had hoped I would be able to deal with this issue confidentially with my bosses. I dropped out of the renegotiation simply because I wanted to treat myself with the respect I was not getting from them.”

Heigl, according to a statement ABC released, is contractually obligated to remain on the highly rated TV show for “several years,” and is “an integral part of Grey’s Anatomy and its success.”

Grey’s creator Shonda Rhimes, who was honored at Sunday’s NABFEME luncheon, had no comment.

The ladies of Grey’s Anatomy pose for pictures in the press room. From the left: Katherine Heigl, Ellen Pompeo, Sara Ramirez, Chandra Wilson, Kate Walsh and Sandra Oh.

The cast of Grey’s Anatomy took home the award for favorite Drama in the Television category. Congrats you guys – you fully deserve it!