Grey’s Anatomy actress Katherine Heigl, who has been outspoken about costar Isaiah Washington’s Golden Globes outburst, keeps her cool at a Los Angeles convenience store on Wednesday.

Patrick Dempsey and wife Jillian welcomed twin boys on Thursday, People has confirmed.

The twins, named Darby Galen and Sullivan Patrick, were born in Los Angeles. They join 4-year-old sister Talula in the Dempsey household.

Dempsey, 41, who plays Derek “Dr. McDreamy” Shepherd on Grey’s Anatomy and recently starred in the movie Freedom Writers, announced the pregnancy in September on Live with Regis and Kelly.

In January, he posed for Life with his head resting on Jillian’s pregnant belly.

Asked how fatherhood has changed him, he told the magazine, “Now, making money is about providing for my children. And being a father makes you look at yourself. You look at your marriage and go, ‘How do I improve this? How do I keep growing and create a stable environment for my children?’ ”

Dempsey and his wife met in 1994 when he came into her salon for a haircut. (She now has her own high-end cosmetics line.) They married in 1999 at the Dempsey family farmhouse in Maine.

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Isaiah Washington is scheduled to return to the Grey’s Anatomy set as early as Thursday for the first time since entering counseling after making a homophobic slur, a source tells PEOPLE.

Washington, who plays Dr. Preston Burke, has not been on the set since Jan. 23, the day before he issued a statement saying he would seek counseling “as a necessary step toward understanding why I did what I did and making sure it never happens again.”

He also missed picking up a trophy at Sunday’s Screen Actors Guild Awards that honored the Grey’s cast for drama. “There’s a little awkwardness here,” costar Katherine Heigl said before the show. Best actress winner Chandra Wilson alluded to his absence, saying in her acceptance speech, “It’s about the 10 cast members sitting over there and the other one in rehab.”

A source familiar with the Grey’s Anatomy production schedule tells PEOPLE that Washington has confirmed he’ll arrive for his next call time, now set for Thursday, though the show’s production schedule changes.

Washington, 43, has been at the center of controversy since using a homophobic slur to refer to costar T.R. Knight, who is gay. After a firestorm of criticism, Washington apologized, then on Jan. 23 announced: “I have begun counseling.”

“I appreciate the fact that I have been given this opportunity and I remain committed to transforming my negative actions into positive results, personally and professionally,” he said.

Reps for the show and Washington declined to comment.

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The big question before Sunday night’s Screen Actors Guild Awards was whether Isaiah Washington would be sitting with his Grey’s Anatomy castmates.

Turns out, he wasn’t even at the ceremony. “There’s a little awkwardness there,” costar Katherine Heigl told us on the red carpet, adding that she hadn’t spoken with Washington since he entered a treatment facility.

But best supporting actress winner Chandra Wilson gave a shout-out to her costar while accepting her award, saying from the stage, “It’s about those 10 cast members sitting over there and the other one in rehab. Y’all just hold me together.”

Washington has been seeking treatment after using a gay slur on the Grey’s set and at the Golden Globe Awards, in reference to costar T.R. Knight, sparking an online petition for his network, ABC, to fire him and condemnation from GLAAD. He’s since apologized.

Heigl, who has been the most critical of Washington, told E!’s Ryan Seacrest she was “very hopeful that things will work out and be okay, and that Isaiah is taking the necessary steps to redeem himself.”

When asked if the cast knew when Washington would return to the set, she told Seacrest, “There’s a lot of confusion,” adding that “we don’t know when he’ll be back or for how long.”

The cast seems to be trying to move on. Ellen Pompeo included Washington in her acceptance speech for the cast’s best ensemble in a TV drama trophy. And the costars stayed close at the official after-party, cohosted by PEOPLE and the Entertainment Industry Foundation, where they toasted their win with champagne.

Knight described the evening as “wonderful.” He would not comment on Washington – he simply told us, “I’m here,” when asked about his costar’s absence – but he did praise another castmate.

“I’m very happy that Chandra [Wilson] was honored in the way she was,” he said. “She’s one of the most excellent people I know. She’s a phenomenal actor. They all are – but obviously she’s family.”

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The actor was the subject of a widely-publicized homophobic slur by a cast mate and he “is so upset about the situation and so disgusted by how it was all handled,” that he’s planning to leave the show, says a source.

“He was told not to say anything about the whole incident,” says the insider, referring to an on-set dust up in October when fellow cast member Isaiah Washington referred to Knight, who plays Dr. George O’Malley, with a derogatory word used to describe gay men.

“He kept his word, but then the whole thing blew up again at the Golden Globes, and when he was asked about it, he basically called Isaiah a liar,” says the source. “He feels that the atmosphere there is so toxic and unhealthy. I suppose things could change and we would stay, but for now, he’s planning to leave the show.”

When asked if Knight planned to leave the show, his spokeswoman told The Scoop: “We’re not commenting on that.” She later called back and said that the story was “Completely, one thousand percent false.” A rep for the network also called to add that “rumors of T. R. Knight’s departure from the show are irrefutably untrue.”

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