{"id":2291307,"date":"2026-02-20T17:19:54","date_gmt":"2026-02-20T17:19:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/?p=2291307"},"modified":"2026-02-20T17:19:54","modified_gmt":"2026-02-20T17:19:54","slug":"patrick-dempsey-texted-eric-dane-a-week-before-greys-anatomy-co-stars-death-he-was-the-funniest-man-and-such-a-joy-to-work-with","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/patrick-dempsey-texted-eric-dane-a-week-before-greys-anatomy-co-stars-death-he-was-the-funniest-man-and-such-a-joy-to-work-with\/","title":{"rendered":"Patrick Dempsey Texted Eric Dane a Week Before \u2018Grey\u2019s Anatomy\u2019 Co-Star\u2019s Death: \u2018He Was the Funniest Man\u2019 and \u2018Such a Joy to Work With\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Patrick Dempsey<\/a> paid tribute to his \u201cGrey\u2019s Anatomy<\/a>\u201d co-star Eric Dane<\/a>, calling him \u201cthe funniest man\u201d and \u201csuch a joy to work with\u201d after Dane died on Feb. 19 at 53 years old.<\/p>\n

The two starred on \u201cGrey\u2019s Anatomy<\/a>\u201d together for several season as Dr. Derek Shepherd<\/a> and and Dr. Mark Sloan<\/a>, aka McDreamy and McSteamy. They played rival surgeons who later became best friends and two of the biggest heartthrobs on the medical drama.<\/p>\n

\u201cI just woke up this morning, and I was very sad to read the news,\u201d Dempsey<\/a> said on \u201cThe Chris Evans Breakfast Show\u201d Friday morning. \u201cIt\u2019s hard to put into words.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

\u2018 The preceding article may include information circulated by third parties \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n

\u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source www.imdb.com \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Patrick Dempsey paid tribute to his \u201cGrey\u2019s Anatomy\u201d co-star Eric Dane, calling him \u201cthe funniest man\u201d and \u201csuch a joy to work with\u201d after Dane died on Feb. 19 at 53 years old. The two starred on \u201cGrey\u2019s Anatomy\u201d together for several season as Dr. Derek Shepherd and and Dr. Mark Sloan, aka McDreamy and […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2291308,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[25177],"tags":[25538,31714,21751,22556,21993,22860,21912,21738,24141,22205,21913],"class_list":["post-2291307","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-celebrities","tag-actors","tag-actresses","tag-celebrities","tag-directors","tag-films","tag-hollywood","tag-movies","tag-news","tag-stars","tag-television","tag-tv"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/Patrick-Dempsey-Texted-Eric-Dane-a-Week-Before-\u2018Greys-Anatomy.png","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2291307","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2291307"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2291307\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2291309,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2291307\/revisions\/2291309"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2291308"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2291307"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2291307"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2291307"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}