Grey's Anatomy fans loved Dr Preston Burke on the hit show. Played by Isaiah Washington, the iconic role won the star two NAACP Image Awards and a Screen Actors Guild Award, but things ended on a bad note when the star was dropped from the show in 2007 around the show's third season. So what happened? Find out here… 

The actor was reportedly embroiled in an argument with his co-star, Patrick Dempsey, when he insulted another co-star, T.R. Knight (whose first name is Theodore), using a homophobic slur. T.R. came out publicly as gay via PEOPLE a few days after the reported fight, saying: "I'd like to quiet any unnecessary rumors that may be out there. I hope the fact that I'm gay isn't the most interesting part of me."

Speaking about the expletive on The Ellen DeGeneres Show, T.R. said: "It's an awesome word, isn't it? I've never been called that to my face. So I think when that happened, something shifted, and it became bigger than myself."

He added: "I was under no delusions. My friends on the set knew. We talked about it. Publicly it's not my thing to call up PEOPLE magazine and be like, 'Hey, you want to know something about me?' … I could've just let it slide and not said anything, but it became important. It became important to make the statement."

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