He's Doing It for the Money
Filed under: TV News > Isaiah Washington
Former Grey's Anatomy douchebag cast member Isaiah Washington has filed a complaint with the Screen Actors Guild against his former show.
What ticked off the ill-tempered star???
Well, it seems like ABC used a pic of his sorry ass mug in an episode of Grey's without his permission.
The character played by Washington, Dr. Preston Burke, was featured in a "newspaper article" about the character receiving a prestigious surgeon's award in an episode that first aired on May 9th.
A rep for Washington says, "They (Grey's) have the rights of the character to advance the story, but not the image," then adding that what he expects for his client is a "financial settlement."
So gross.
Grey's should should just kill off his character once and for all!
P.S. He'll be lucky if he gets $10.99 for his picture.
[Image via Celebrity Babylon.]
$10.99 for his picture and it will still outsell Madonna's CD here in the United States!
Even as a homo-basher, he's more popular than Madonna is!
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They need to pay him. They need to bring him back. Grey's is boring without him.
i hate this guy
I LOVE MILEY CYRUS!
LEAVE MILEY ALONEE!! (:
i love perez and all the dramz!!!!!!!!
The ratings are in the shitter for Gray's, they are desp and will do anything to keep the show's name in the spotlight. They are probably paying Big Black to do this! DUH. Dramsz is CREATED! Who fuckin' cares! Where is Brit? KAtie!
WHAT A CUNT FACE!!
first bitches
He looks like poop w/ teeth. He's all ~burnt 'tup~
why wouldn't he sue for the money?
don't people usually file these lawsuits for the money?
it's not as if Washington left the show on good terms! His character was an integral part of GA and the writers cant just drop a main character and move on with no mention.
ABC is just gonna have to pay up and let it go.
Well…what would Grey's Anatomy expect. They KICKED the man off…FIRED him. And then expect to use his picture in the previews to make more pepole watch… Now they see what a mistake they made…and Isaiah is right to do what he is doing. MAKE THEM GRAVEL! The show was AWESOME with him…and now sad to say it is lacking.
They should have never gotten rid of him anyway. GA sucks now and has not been the same since he let go. Yeah he shouldn't have used derog. racial slurs but it wasn't even intended for the real fag on the show (TR),, it was said to Patrick who he was arguing with at the time.
23rd?
not only does he deserve the money he earned it even if it was passive. after all they wouldn't have the pic of the character if he hadn't done it. not only that but let someone use a pic of Mickey Mouse in an ad and see how fast the mouse gets rabid. Whats good for the mouse is good for the cat. Besides that the cat is feral, and takes what meals it can get legitimately.
i agree give him 20 dollars for his ugly mug shot and call it a day… what a ass.. after all the money he made off the show he does this…. like they say you can take the person out of the ghetto but the ghetto will always will be with them..sheesh
Is this is the homophopic silly guy that kill the new Bionic Woman series. I think is the same one that his caracter was killed to try to save the show??????????
he's a little bitch, calm the fuck down son
Who cares? Get over it Perez. I love your site and I think youre funny but when you get it wrong, you really get it wrong. Isaiah is entitled to his opinion even if it doesn't agree with yours. I hope he does get all the money he's asking for.
watch gossip girl tonight at 8pm on cw11
He's preparing to be rotten in hell.
seriously that is pathetic!
there never going to bring him back after what he did so yea kill him off!
i love greys but this is pathetic hes obviously desperate for cash and hes lucky they even included him in the show again.
That whole issue was blown out of proportion, and Grey's has gone downhill. Look at you Perez, out there pimpin your damn clothes line, is that for love of fashion only? No $$? Why shouldn't Washington get paid? It's his face they're using.
Wow. He looks REALLY gay in this picture.
the story is better with burke. but he is a dick.
Whaaaa…. cry me a river, Isaiah.
He's an asshole.
If any producers from Grey's read this posting, BRING BACK DR. BURKE.
Good for him. He is within every right to sue ABC.
Hey if they're going to use his picture then they better pay him. IMO They fired him and have no right to use him. They can use the name Burke all they want but not his image…not without permission. DUH!
GOOD FOR YOU ISAIAH! Greys sucks!!
So just because you don't like him, he shouldn't get what's coming to him? Retard.
Even if Grey's was wrong in using his image, he should just be a man about it and say, "Just don't do it again" and be done with it. But to make this all a big issues like this? Get over it. He's just bitter.
Oh for real?! God…I used to wish he could have stayed on Grey's but I'm glad to have seen his sorry ass leave. Seems that some celebs need to make the biggest shit out of the stupidest of things. The second I saw his pic last epidose I had an uneasy feeling about it….and I guess I was right. Oh it's just a fucking picture IW, get OVER IT. The only reason why I can justify his actions is because if you're going to kick him off the show then at least kick him off for good. No one wants to see him again.
This guy is NOT making any friends in Hollywood, that is for sure!
What an IDIOT!
What would he have said had they used a picture of ANOTHER MAN (hopefully, a gay one) and said that was Preston Burke. The man is a diva.
OH BOY! THEY'RE BRINGING BACK THE "$1.98 BEAUTY PAGEANT"!
You can hate him all you want but he has every right to ask for a settlement.
It's too bad he got fired from Grey's because of one blown out of proportion comment. How many times does someone have to apologize? Why isn't sorry good enough? Because cry babies like Perez bitch and whine and get other cry babies to bitch and whine instead of accepting that he made a mistake. What he said wasn't right but either are the overreactions of idiots like Perez.
S-E-L-L-O-U-T!!!!!
DUDE, HE'S A D-LIST CELEBUTARD WHO IS IN DESPERATE NEED OF "PUBLICITY" I DON'T EVEN KNOW WHY YOU GIVE HIM THE TIME OF DAY ON THIS.
Re: k…. – okay and tell me what he did that was so ghetto!
He better check his contract….They usually allow the owners of the show to use your image for a period of time and it looked like a publicity shot from before anyway. Notice its a SAG complaint not a suit. He won't get a penny. SAG is in no position to demand anything right now with the contract coming up and the studios would love for them to walk off just like the writers and fill up the waves with cheap shows just like before. Total publicity stunt. He can't get a meeting with ANYONE these days. Pack up and move to BFE…..Old News.
Don't hate Perez, just go back into the closet. 2 out of 3 people don't approve of the gay life style. Wake up and smell your boyfriends underwear. That's why gay marriage never gets passed by the voters except in super liberal states like Massachusetts. We are going to keep shutting it down here. Even liberal states like Cali won't let it through. I'm not very religious but didn't someone in the Bible say "be fruitful and multiply?" It didn't say just be fruity. LOL!
Yep, I was hoping the article was saying he was killed somewhere, so there is NO chance he can ever come back to the show.
He needs to be back on grey's he had the best story line of the cast and let's face it this season has kind of sucked with out him.
That is so stupid…they only showed his picture for a few seconds. He needs to get over himself and pull the huge pole he has shoved up his ass out. And I so agree Perez, they need to kill him off once and for all!!
Re: Hillary Rodem Clinton – Oh come on Mrs Duggar!
Dear Isaiah Washington,
Enjoy your $15.45 that is rightfully yours. We are deeply sorry that featuring your picture on an episode of a show that could have made you an unfathomable amount of money, caused you such emotional distress.
Maybe you should stop gay-bashing and get a real job.
xoxo
Alex the fuckingprincess A.
Re: greg – They should pay the brother and now. I would be bitching too if they hadn't paid me. And I would love to trade places with Perez so he could take my place being the bitch of the cellblock. He would probably enjoy it more than me.
Love
Wesley
Re: Hillary Rodem Clinton – When are you going to let your daughter out of the closet. I could use a younger upgrade.
Shit you'd have to pay ME to accept a signed photo of him. But don't worry, he'll come out in a few years in PEOPLE.
VOTE FOR HILLARY OR BARACK - I NEED HANDOUTS THAT I'M ENTITLED TO BECAUSE I'M TOO LAZY TO WORK.
Re: Martina – As soon as you douche a little.
Can you say Desperation?
Awwww, pewez is mad at him because he called someone a FAGG. Well, he is a FAGG. He didn't lie.
Listen you racist Latino bitch, Isaiah is better than you and your butte boy TR Knight put together. I wouldn't fuck TR with your dick. A bunion on Isaiah's foot is better looking than both of you. Now why don't you, that fag hag Katherine Heigel and her handmaiden TR Knight go ass rape each other in seedy hollywood club till you bleed.
I agree! He should've been compensated. When I saw his picture in the episode, I thought for sure they received his okay before using it. The people behind Grey's have some nerve!
Shut up Perez…get over it already. All the trash you spout about other people
What a stupid thing to do. Apparently the guy can't get work elsewhere and is desperate for money. I hope he gets DENIED! What a gay bashing looser!
Re: Perez blows –
IF you don't like it then why do you read it? I find it so funny how people who don't like Perez, come to his site and read what he rights and then bitches about it. If you really didn't like him then you wouldn't waste your time on this site. Get a fucking life you looser! Go Perez - I think that you're great!
I saw that shot on the promo and thought it was for an obituary for the show. They should just kill him off; the just can't bring somone else on and call him Preston Burke, that would not be good.
He needs to get a life… Oh wait that was his life! Give him the money that yes he maybe legally obligated to have, yet non the less i think he should instead ask for the job and not the money he knows he needs it.
Well if he is soooooooooo awful then why did they use the pics? Perez it is not like they used yours. Give the man his money! You fire him then decide to go back and use him? No you can't do that in America. Pay him…
Re: Missouri2 –
are you retarded? grey's is one of the biggest shows out there. and has incredible ratings. SUCH AN AMAZING SHOW, with an amazing cast.
dr. burke was the best part of that show, WE NEED HIM BACK!
I don't agree with that either, however I would LOVE to see him back on the show. He and Cristina have unfinished business. I wish everyone would settle their differences and give us at least 4 maybe 5 episodes with him in it. To bring closure to both their characters. A small piece of me misses Preston Xavier Burke.
Re: perezsucks –
NO IT HASN'T! grey's is amazing and always will be
Ah, how nice. And now he has his anger AND his denial to keep him warm all his life. Stay warm…you should have known better, but you listened to fear instead of acceptance.
what a total douchebag a-hole!!!
Re: Crackalakin –
SOOOO AGREEEEE
i love him
i love him
I LOVED HIS CHARACTER AND IN BLACKHOLLYWOOD HE'S THE SHIT.SO WHAT HE USED A SLURR BUT WHO DOSEN'T GET OVER IT I'LL BUY IT FOR ASMUCH AS HE SELL.
I miss him - the show has gone downhill since he left. His character was awesome I loved him - I really couldn't care less about his personal opinons - plenty of other homophobics cruising around with jobs.
hahhaha, gotta love him! I REALLY MISS HIM ON GREYS:(!! The show just isn't the same without him!
Grey's is suffering. The ratings have sucked since he left the show and you, Perez are mostly to blame. Your campaign to smear him got him fired, but it also helped to ruin the chemistry of a previously good show. Without him they are nothing and the ratings prove it. I predict one more season and the show will either be canceled or half the staff will bail ship before it's canceled.
HOW UNCLASSY!
Greys should do what the daytime soap operas do and that is recast him with another, BETTER actor since they have rights to the character. It's been done in primetime many times before!
THEY SHOULD PAY HIM I KNOW THEY WOULD HAVE TO PAY ME IF THEY KICK ME OFF THE SHOW AND JUST B/C THEY RATING IS FALLING THEY THINK THEY HAVE THE RIGHT TO FLASH HIS FACE THAT AIN'T RIGHT AT ALL!! IF ANYTHING THEY SHOULD HAVE FLASH HIS NAME INSTEAD AND THEY WOULDN'T HAVE TO BE GOING THRU THIS!! GOOD FOR EM!!
black male celebrities are so fucking arrogant….fuckn' assholes..
love greys
hate him
It seems petty, and not surprised if there is bad blood. He might be an idiot homophobe, but he was fired for the wrong reasons. Had he been an alcoholic or drug addict, they would've stuck with him. They bowed to political correctness and got rid of possibly the strongest actor on the show. For all we know George (er T.R.) could be a real pain in real life - his character is certainly the most annoying in history! Personally I would have missed him a lot less than Preston Burke.
The show is crap since he left so he got his sweet revenge with or without the money. Now the show is just a bunch of girlfriends (the guys included) operating on their free time.
I just assumed they had his permission…yeah, they totally need to pay him/get his permission to do that…
…I don't think he's a jerk for calling them out…honestly, think about if Grey's had done that with an image of Oprah or someone…they'd lose their shirts.
grey sucks without Isaiah Washington..its so boring, who cares if he called him gay ONCE ?..they were having a fight the media blows everything up..
COME BACK!
i'd pay him 11 dollars just to GO. AWAY. FOREVER.
They should tape the settlement check around the hard cock of a white gay guy to deliver it to him.
What the hell is wrong with him? Chandra Wilson created the character therefor she has rights. Who the fuck cares about his picture? He's just pissed because he got fired. He's being an incredible douchbag.
Why doesn't this jerk shut up?
Andrew
Oh please perez u just hate him cause he shared his feelings about take it in the butt boys like you. Everyone is entitiled to their own opinion, hence the success of your opinionated website.
What a twat. God forbid they put his picture on TV and contribute to his fame.
Good! He was so great on the show but they have to make the gays happy so he got screwed.
I want Issah in my next film
fuck the overly sensitive homo's
without him the show sucks
he added flavor and now greys is paying the show sucks ass.
Re: LEA – Exactly. I might understand if he said it to someone that was gay but he said it to a straight guy just like most straight guys say to other straight guys all the time. It's a term most people use, get over it.
BRING BACK DR. BURKE…THIS SHOW SUX ASS NOW W/O HIM….PRESTON BURKE AND CHRISTINA YANG ARE MY REASONS FOR WATCHING …,..YOU SUCK ABC FOR GETTING RID OF HIM AAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH
he is sooooooo lame
Good for him - ABC threw his A$$ to the wolves and now they want to use his picture in their story line - I agree with him - i'ts BS.
So he should be compensated.
Anyone with any brains knows Washington to be a big closet case. What a loser!
He is a despicable man. But he is in the right here. Charmed could not be released without Shannen Doherty's permission. They could not use her picture in the finale. This sucked for all the fans but it was her choice. ABC has no right to use his likeness without his permission. They own the character not the man. If they wanted to use a likeness they should have recast or used a picture of someone who looked enough like IW to fool you. Just because he has a dirty mouth and does not when to keep his comments to himself does not mean that ABC can walk over him after they get rid of him.
he must love the fact that he looks like that guy samwell who sings "what what in the butt" hahahaha
I said what what in the butt!!
Get over it Perez, he said the Fag word almost or over a year ago. do you know how many people say that word daily. So you are going to be pissed off at them too. Get a grip. the guy was fired from the show and they don't have the right to show his image. He is trying to protect himself and your sorry fag ass would do the same if you were given the chance.
All right, Perez. The man used a common slur, made a PSA, got fired anyway, and has done his penance. Do you think you can find it in your heart to forgive him and move on? I don't think he's a douchebag, he's a fine actor and I let go of the anger. I think you should, too.
Get over it Perez!! The show sucks without him…