Ellen Pompeo may be unsure about whether she’ll stick with Grey’s Anatomy after her contract expires next season, but it sounds like her on screen hubby has made up his mind.

下一季《实习医生格蕾》中，Ellen Pompeo跟剧组的合约就要到期了，留还是不留？不过她剧中的老公已经做了决定。

In the new issue of the Italian Vanity Fair, Patrick Dempsey confirms that the show’s upcoming eighth season will be his swan song. “It’s gonna be my last,” he told the mag. “I do not know what’s going to happen to the other characters, but for me it’s done.”

在新一期的《名利场》中，饰演格蕾老公的Patrick Dempsey证实了第八季将是他的最后演出。“我不知道其他角色的安排情况，但我的角色在第八季结束后就没有了。”

Dempsey added that the idea of checking out of Seattle Grace after seven years is “bittersweet because it’s been great and a great part of my life. But I can’t see me doing it anymore.”

Dempsey表示这些年来拍戏的经历很令人难忘，但是不打算继续下去。

One person who we’re pretty sure won’t be caught off guard by this news: Shonda Rhimes. The Grey’s creator told TVLine earlier this month that she was approaching next season as if it was the last – not just for Dempsey but his fellow original cast members Pompeo, Chandra Wilson, Sandra Oh and Justin Chambers. “It might be the last hurrah for a lot of them; you never know,” she said. “I really don’t know and I don’t presume to know. Everybody has an individual choice to make and I get that…. All the originals are in play.”

制作人Shonda Rhimes倒对此表示讶异，她透露说的确有将下一季作为最后一季来制作的打算，对于剧组其他演员Pompeo, Chandra Wilson, Sandra Oh 和 Justin Chambers来说，下一季都可能会是告别演出。“虽然说不准，但第八季很可能是他们最后的出演了。我不太确定，也不想去确定，每个人都有自己的打算，我理解。”

Of course, this begs the provocative question: What happens if Dempsey leaves but Pompeo stays? Perhaps a clue can be found in this next quote from Rhimes. “I feel like Meredith and Derek are meant to be together forever, and we’re going to make sure that in the end they end up together, one would hope — unless one of them dies or something.”

不过，要是Dempsey走了，而Pompeo留下来，那要怎么办？Rhimes接下来的话可能会给我们一点线索：“我觉得Meredith和Derek一定会在一起的，我们也保证最后他们会在一起，除非其中一个死了或是怎么样。”