Was Isaiah Washington the first to be cancelled by the LGBT?

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His imdb page says that he was on Tv series that ran for 6 years on network television, The 100.
He appeared on 60 episodes.

Recurring role on network series that aired enough episodes to go into syndication AFTER the controversy isn't being cancelled.

You're confusing the term cancelled and blackballed. That situation cancelled his career as nothing he's been since has been on the same level of Grey's Anatomy nor has he been able to get consistency in his career after. Even with The 100, his career had been floundering for years prior and still has since he left that show as well.

That was literally his first long term gig in 7 years since he had left the show at that time. Other than that and P-Valley, dudes literally been hard up for consistent gigs and resorting to taking shows on Fox Nation and Oasis Financial commercials.

 

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I think he was in Bollywood at one point

 

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His career hasn't been the same since. That whole incident hurt him. To be honest though, I think only Sandra Oh has been the only cast member to have some real success after leaving the show. So I can't really say how his post Grey's Anatomy career would have been like, had he not said it, or made an honest apology.

 

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His career hasn't been the same since. That whole incident hurt him. To be honest though, I think only Sandra Oh has been the only cast member to have some real success after leaving the show. So I can't really say how his post Grey's Anatomy career would have been like, had he not said it, or made an honest apology.

Some of them have had their own shows and success after Greys, but Sandra Oh is really the only one that's had any critical acclaim success since leaving the show. I can see why she wants no part of going back to the show even if it's just for a one appearance.

He should have just fessed up to it and apologized from the jump instead of digging in his heels about the situation. That would have more than likely helped his career as it was always obvious that they didn't want to get rid of him in the first place, but he gave them no choice.

 

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You're confusing the term cancelled and blackballed. That situation cancelled his career as nothing he's been since has been on the same level of Grey's Anatomy nor has he been able to get consistency in his career after. Even with The 100, his career had been floundering for years prior and still has since he left that show as well.

That was literally his first long term gig in 7 years since he had left the show at that time. Other than that and P-Valley, dudes literally been hard up for consistent gigs and resorting to taking shows on Fox Nation and Oasis Financial commercials.

This is moving the goal posts. When TV shows are cancelled, they go off the air. Cancelled celebs go away and stay away.
Charlie Rose and Matt Lauer were cancelled, with good reason. Tavis Smiley was unfairly cancelled. All 3 men are gone from being able to host tv shows.

Isiah continued to work, regrouped and got another tv series acting role on broadcast television. Grey's Anatomy is a blockbuster show, rare in it's ratings, accolades, and staying power. I see his former castmates are still on the series.
Using Grey's as a litmus test, and asking why has he gotten a gig on a show of that level is disingenuous. Those types of projects are extremely rare.

His career has taken a hit, certainly...not the definition of cancelled.

Isaiah Washington - IMDb

 

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This is moving the goal posts. When TV shows are cancelled, they go off the air. Cancelled celebs go away and stay away.
Charlie Rose and Matt Lauer were cancelled, with good reason. Tavis Smiley was unfairly cancelled. All 3 men are gone from being able to host tv shows.

Isiah continued to work, regrouped and got another tv series acting role on broadcast television. Grey's Anatomy is a blockbuster show, rare in it's ratings, accolades, and staying power. I see his former castmates are still on the series.
Using Grey's as a litmus test, and asking why has he gotten a gig on a show of that level is disingenuous. Those types of projects are extremely rare.

His career has taken a hit, certainly...not the definition of cancelled.

Isaiah Washington - IMDb

Charlie Rose and Matt Lauer got cancelled and blackballed. That's the difference. They got cancelled and aren't getting any gigs anytime soon.

Tavis Smiley got cancelled, but not blackballed as he's still getting gigs out here and just got his own radio show.

At one point and time, Isiah Washington was literally cancelled and blackballed as there was a couple of years where he literally went without a gig after his last show on ABC got cancelled.

 

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I think Tim Hardaway got cancelled before him

 

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'Grey's Anatomy' star Isaiah Washington said Ellen Pompeo was secretly paid $5 million 'to not tell the world how toxic and nasty Patrick Dempsey really was'

Oct 29, 2021

Ellen Pompeo, Patrick Dempsey, and Isaiah Washington.


Isaiah Washington said the "Grey's Anatomy" star Ellen Pompeo accepted "$5 million dollars under the table" to keep quiet and "not tell the world how toxic and nasty Patrick Dempsey really was" on set.

During an interview on Tavis Smiley's radio show on October 21, Washington said Dempsey "was not a nice guy from day one." He also referred to Dempsey as "a total tyrant" who had a reputation for being "pilot poison," meaning an actor who represents a liability to getting a show picked up for a series.

Washington said Pompeo took "hush money" from unnamed parties around the time that the #MeToo movement was first making headlines before she signed a $20 million contract to continue on "Grey's Anatomy" and become the highest-paid woman on television.

Dempsey and Washington film one of Washington's final episodes on "Grey's Anatomy."
The #MeToo hashtag went viral in 2017, largely inspired by reports about the now convicted rapist Harvey Weinstein from The New York Times and The New Yorker. Many women in Hollywood made sexual-abuse allegations and described gender-specific disparities.

Pompeo signed her $20 million contract with ABC "in late 2017," according to her January 2018 interview with The Hollywood Reporter.

"And you want to run around here like you are the keeper of all feminine women and the feminist movement," Washington said, referring to Pompeo.

The "P-Valley" actor said he never felt supported on the set of the medical drama because he "was never wanted there."

"Every single day, I was a problem that was being reminded, 'You're No. 4 on the call sheet,'" he said.

Pompeo.
Washington said that around the time he exited "Grey's Anatomy," his own behavior on set was being used to cover up Dempsey's.

Washington was at the center of one of the first controversies on the set of ABC's long-running medical drama when multiple witnesses said he used a homophobic slur to refer to his costar T.R. Knight during a fight with Dempsey. Washington issued an apology for his actions to People in 2006 and was fired from the show the following year.

Reps for Pompeo and Dempsey didn't immediately respond to Insider's requests for comment.

 

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Dempsey's behavior on set was not 'McDreamy,' a former 'Grey's' executive producer says
In "How to Save a Life: The Inside Story of Grey's Anatomy," a recently released tell-all book about the medical drama by Entertainment Weekly Editor at Large Lynette Rice, the former "Grey's" executive producer James D. Parriott makes similar comments about Dempsey's behavior, saying the actor was often "terrorizing the set."

"Some cast members had all sorts of PTSD with him," Parriott adds. "He had this hold on the set where he knew he could stop production and scare people."

Dempsey has never directly commented about any allegations regarding his behavior on set. In his 2015 "Grey's Anatomy" exit interview with Rice, he said leaving the show "unfolded in a very organic way" but added that "it happened very quickly."

"Grey's Anatomy."
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In November 2014, Dempsey went on a "hiatus" from the show for six episodes for reasons he didn't explain to Rice.

"They tried to keep it secret as best they could," he said.

Dempsey did say his erratic hours were hard on his family.

"It's 10 months, 15 hours a day. You never know your schedule, so your kid asks you, 'What are you doing
 on Monday?' and you go, 'I don't know,' because I don't know my schedule,'" he said. "Doing that for 11 years is challenging."

He added: "What I would like to do is focus on not being spread so thin."

 

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It's been well known over the years that Patrick Dempsey was a hassle to deal with on the set, which is exactly why they used the cover of him leaving to show to and save his marriage as a cover for him getting fired. Even then, that still doesn't change the fact Isiah Washington was idiot for letting dude mess up his bread and career while also causing someone else to catch a stray in the process.

Everyone on set knows that he called TR Knight a slur during the argument with Dempsey, so there's no reason for him to still lie about it till this day.

 

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It's been well known over the years that Patrick Dempsey was a hassle to deal with on the set, which is exactly why they used the cover of him leaving to show to and save his marriage as a cover for him getting fired. Even then, that still doesn't change the fact Isiah Washington was idiot for letting dude mess up his bread and career while also causing someone else to catch a stray in the process.

Everyone on set knows that he called TR Knight a slur during the argument with Dempsey, so there's no reason for him to still lie about it till this day.

"Letting"?
How did he let Dempsey or Knight mess up his money?

People get in arguments and incidents with co workers on tv sets. Most of it gets swept under the rug, like PD's alleged sexual harassment of Pompeo. Washington's personal argument/conversation with another man wasn't swept under the rug. In fact, PD went to the press and confirmed/aired it out. Hypocrite shyt us what Washington is pointing out.

 

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"Letting"?
How did he let Dempsey or Knight mess up his money?

People get in arguments and incidents with co workers on tv sets. Most of it gets swept under the rug, like PD's alleged sexual harassment of Pompeo. Washington's personal argument/conversation with another man wasn't swept under the rug. In fact, PD went to the press and confirmed/aired it out. Hypocrite shyt us what Washington is pointing out.

Do any of those arguments and incidents result in one co-worker indirectly using a homophobic slur against another co-worker who never had anything to do with the beef in the first place?

The argument with Dempsey didn't get him fired. Using the homophobic slur about TR Knight during the argument with Dempsey did. Not to mention the fact that he was dumb enough to bring the situation to the light on the red carpet, which got the media asking questions about what happened.

You're full of shyt if you sit here and say that a job isn't to fire you nor you face any repercussions if you use that type of slur about another co-worker when EVERYBODY on set heard you say it. He was going to get fired for that situation either way and even then, ABC liked him enough to put on another show that same season and brought him back later to close out Sandra Oh's appearance on the show.

 

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Do any of those arguments and incidents result in one co-worker indirectly using a homophobic slur against another co-worker who never had anything to do with the beef in the first place?

The argument with Dempsey didn't get him fired. Using the homophobic slur about TR Knight during the argument with Dempsey did. Not to mention the fact that he was dumb enough to bring the situation to the light on the red carpet, which got the media asking questions about what happened.

You're full of shyt if you sit here and say that a job isn't to fire you nor you face any repercussions if you use that type of slur about another co-worker when EVERYBODY on set heard you say it.

Not fired, story never "leaked" either. You seem like you follow entertainment industry . Surely this wouldn't be the first instance of white cast or crew member saying racist shyt on the set, in front of other people....with no repercussions or public disclosure of the story.

I get it, that LGBTQ have more powerful people within the industry than Blacks, so the consequences are different, but it's a double standard, the same as what's being pointed out about PD, hush money, and this actress.

 

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Not fired, story never "leaked" either. You seem like you follow entertainment industry . Surely this wouldn't be the first instance of white cast or crew member saying racist shyt on the set, in front of other people....with no repercussions or public disclosure of the story.

I get it, that LGBTQ have more powerful people within the industry than Blacks, so the consequences are different, but it's a double standard, the same as what's being pointed out about PD, hush money, and this actress.

You're correct that it's not the first instance at all. The difference though? Isaiah Washington brought up the situation himself on the red carpet which had the meeting asking questions about it. That's the only reason that people even knew that the situation had happened.

ABC literally gave him another job right after he got kicked off Grey's, but the show got cancelled earlier into the season. They even brought him back years later even with Dempsey still being on the show at the time. They never wanted to fire him in the first place and only did so because of him bringing up the situation when it was not being talked about. ABC tried everything in their power to help him out even in spite of the situation as they obviously liked him.

Both things can be true. Dempsey is an a-hole, which is why he ended up leaving the show and Washington screwed up by TR Knight catching a stray in his beef with Dempsey.

 

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Nah it was Shabba Ranks