How Ellen Pompeo's Husband Reacted to Her Steamy 'Gray's Anatomy' Scenes

How Ellen Pompeo's Husband Reacted to Her Steamy 'Gray's Anatomy' Scenes

Awkward. Most Gray’s Anatomy followers love a steamy scene, however Chris Ivery has a unique perspective. Ellen Pompeo revealed that her husband doesn’t love seeing his spouse make out with the recent docs at Gray Sloan Memorial Hospital.

“Poor man had no thought what he was moving into,” Pompeo, 51, stated on the “Women First With Laura Brown” podcast on July 27.

The actress, who has performed Meredith Gray for 17 seasons, met her future husband about six months earlier than filming the pilot of Gray’s Anatomy. Although they’d grown up in the identical space of Massachusetts, the file producer, 54, and actress crossed paths in a Los Angeles Complete Meals. As soon as the hit present began airing, Ivery needed to watch his spouse steam up the small display screen with the likes of Patrick Dempsey and Chris O’Donnell.


Ellen Pompeo and Chris Ivery.
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“I bear in mind to start with it was actually exhausting for him,” the manager producer recalled. “He was like, ‘This isn’t what I signed up for. You’re kissing a man — You go to work and make out with that. I like Patrick and the whole lot, he’s a great dude, however like actually?’”

Pompeo defined the paparazzi consideration additionally regarding her husband. Pre-social media, she stated about 30 or 40 photographers could be ready outdoors her home.

“It was rather a lot for him at first. He was actually a trooper, I’ve to say,” the Boston native commented. “He’s my favourite individual.”

Ivery caught it out although. The couple married in 2007 and share three kids, Stella, 11, Sienna, 6, and Eli, 4.

Regardless of her husband’s dislike of steamy scenes, Pompeo has remained on Gray’s Anatomy as a result of it’s good for her household to have a dependable schedule (to not point out the $20 million yearly wage).

“I made selections to remain on the present. For me, personally, a wholesome dwelling life was extra vital than profession,” the mom of three stated on the “Jemele Hill Is Unbothered” podcast in August 2020. “I didn’t develop up with a very pleased childhood. So to have a contented dwelling life was actually one thing I wanted to finish to shut the outlet in my coronary heart.”

She continued, “And so I decided to generate profits, and never chase inventive performing roles.”

Because the ABC drama heads into its 18th season, Pompeo has brazenly expressed how troublesome it may be to maintain Gray’s Anatomy fascinating.

When a fan negatively reviewed the most recent season by way of social media, the main woman had no hassle swallowing the criticism.

“All good! Seventeen seasons we are able to’t please everybody on a regular basis,” she wrote by way of Twitter in June. “It’s positively not straightforward retaining it going and retaining it nice… I get it… thanks for checking it out anyway… and thanks to your suggestions it issues …sending you’re keen on.”

Gray’s Anatomy season 18 is anticipated to return to ABC this fall.

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