{"id":2292962,"date":"2026-02-21T19:08:15","date_gmt":"2026-02-21T19:08:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/?p=2292962"},"modified":"2026-02-21T19:08:15","modified_gmt":"2026-02-21T19:08:15","slug":"chyler-leigh-says-shell-hold-greys-anatomy-costar-eric-dane-in-her-heart-forever","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/chyler-leigh-says-shell-hold-greys-anatomy-costar-eric-dane-in-her-heart-forever\/","title":{"rendered":"Chyler Leigh Says She\u2019ll Hold \u2018Grey\u2019s Anatomy\u2019 Costar Eric Dane in Her Heart Forever"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Many Grey\u2019s Anatomy<\/a> actors have offered tributes to costar Eric Dane<\/a>, who died at age 53 this week. But Chyler Leigh<\/a> was arguably Dane\u2019s closest collaborator on the show, playing Lexie Grey<\/a> opposite his Mark Sloan<\/a>. And now she, too, is speaking out about the loss. \u201cThe last 48 hours have been devastating,\u201d Leigh said in a statement to E! News<\/a> on Saturday, February 21. \u201cI never thought I would be using the term \u2018had or was,\u2019 but here we are. And I hate it.\u201d She went on: \u201cEric had a heart of gold. His humor and, especially, his laugh was infectious. He was a deeply intelligent man who could carry a…<\/div>\n

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Many Grey\u2019s Anatomy actors have offered tributes to costar Eric Dane, who died at age 53 this week. But Chyler Leigh was arguably Dane\u2019s closest collaborator on the show, playing Lexie Grey opposite his Mark Sloan. And now she, too, is speaking out about the loss. \u201cThe last 48 hours have been devastating,\u201d Leigh said […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2292963,"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":[25173],"tags":[25538,31714,21751,22556,21993,22860,21912,21738,24141,22205,21913],"class_list":["post-2292962","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-artists","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\/Chyler-Leigh-Says-Shell-Hold-\u2018Greys-Anatomy-Costar-Eric-Dane.png","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2292962","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=2292962"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2292962\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2292964,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2292962\/revisions\/2292964"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2292963"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2292962"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2292962"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2292962"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}