Big-time Hollywood star and renowned pleasant person to work with Katherine Heigl will return to Grey’s Anatomy next season, according to someone who cared enough to find out.

Although ABC and ABC Studios won’t officially declare that Katherine Heigl will return for a full season next year,  sources close to “Grey’s Anatomy” said today that the actress will return to the medical show for the last year of her contract.

When viewers last saw Izzie, she was enticing her BFF, George (T.R. Knight), to join her in what was presumably the last elevator ride of both their lives since Izzie has terminal cancer and George got hit by a bus. Well, the elevator appears to have saved Izzie, but George, not so much. [L.A. Times]

Not that you or I care, because we don’t, but Knight himself confirmed he won’t be returning to “Grey’s.”  So we lose George but keep Izzie.  Gosh, this changes everything for me.  Now I’ll still not have to watch.

In case you’re not up to speed on “Grey’s Anatomy” news, Katherine Heigl’s endless diva bitching has led to her character Izzy getting a brain tumor that supposedly leaves her only a 5% chance of survival.  Meanwhile, T.R. Knight, who plays dough-faced pansy George, asked to be released from his contract last fall, leading to this spoiler from Michael Ausiello:

[Knight's] wish may be granted by an upcoming story line that finds… George marching off to war as an Army medic. Just as the season wraps up, George gets injured in the line of duty, leaving his fate up in the air for viewers — and even Knight himself. “T.R. doesn’t know whether George lives or dies,” explains a source close to the show. “And, as a result, he doesn’t know whether or not he has to come back next season.”

Originally I had this big long paragraph that applied logic to this scenario and broke down all the different ways this is totally retarded and in no way realistic for either Knight’s character or the military, but it was pretty boring and the whole process was like trying to debate a six-year-old.  So just take my word for it: I could totally kick a six-year-old’s ass in a debate.  Also, “Grey’s Anatomy” BLOWS.  I’m dead serious when I say I’d rather live in Fallujah for a month than watch every season of that show on DVD.

Image source. P.S. I wanna punch this photo.

Katherine Heigl, the joyless harpy who makes “Grey’s Anatomy” 50% more unwatchable than it already is, will leave the show, according to Us Weekly.  And she’ll be taking her fag-hag buddy T.R. Knight with her.

When Us Weekly asked James Pickens Jr. (a.k.a. Grey‘s Dr. Richard Webber) [a.k.a. Who? -Ed.] on February 7 if Heigl is leaving the medical drama, he said, “Yes, she is.” And he continued, “Wherever Katherine goes, I wish her nothing but the best.”

“Wherever Katherine goes” = starring in movies on Lifetime

Following Heigl, 30, out the door?  Her outspoken BFF, Knight, 35. “He’s going too,” Pickens told Us at the NAACP Awards luncheon in Beverly Hills. “He just wanted to pursue other career paths.”

“He complains to Katherine all the time,” a set source has said of Knight (with Heigl). “The energy on set will be much better when he’s gone.”

Well, these two sound like delightful people to work with.  I can’t believe that the cast and crew hasn’t begged them to stay.  Is there a duo more universally loved and admired than the attractive girl who thinks she’s prettier than she really is and her bitchy gay best friend?