{"id":286283,"date":"2020-01-10T15:10:08","date_gmt":"2020-01-10T22:10:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/b1110619"},"modified":"2020-01-10T15:10:08","modified_gmt":"2020-01-10T22:10:08","slug":"justin-chambers-final-greys-anatomy-episode-has-already-aired","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kidn\/music-news\/justin-chambers-final-greys-anatomy-episode-has-already-aired\/","title":{"rendered":"Justin Chambers&#8217; Final Grey&#8217;s Anatomy Episode Has Already Aired"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"photo-txt-0\" data-hook=\"scrollable-block\" readability=\"37.880062305296\">\n<div class=\"column post-content__image--left post-content__image\" data-swiftype-index=\"false\" readability=\"32\"> <img decoding=\"async\" class=\"image--full\" src=\"https:\/\/akns-images.eonline.com\/eol_images\/Entire_Site\/2020010\/rs_634x1024-200110110721-634-justin-chambers-red-carpet.jpg?fit=inside|900:auto&amp;output-quality=90\" title=\"Justin Chambers\" alt=\"Justin Chambers\"><\/p>\n<p class=\"image__credits\">David Buchan\/Variety\/Shutterstock<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<section data-textblock-tracking=\"text-block-photo-text\" readability=\"19.101184068891\">\n<p>It&#8217;s too late to say goodbye.<\/p>\n<p>Actor <strong>Justin Chambers<\/strong> has played the beloved character of Dr. Alex Karev for the last 15 years, but sadly, the time has come for the actor to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eonline.com\/news\/1110533\/grey-s-anatomy-star-justin-chambers-leaving-the-show-after-16-seasons\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">pack up his scrubs and say goodbye<\/a>. On Friday, it was revealed that the beloved character has walked the halls of the famed Seattle hospital for the last time. While fans were looking forward to having a proper send off for the star, it turns out his <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eonline.com\/news\/1110573\/justin-chambers-is-leaving-grey-s-anatomy-where-are-the-other-departed-doctors-now?query=justin%20chambers\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">last episode has already aired<\/a>.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>ABC has confirmed to E! News that Justin&#8217;s last episode was in fact episode 350 which aired on Nov. 14 of last year. The star has <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eonline.com\/news\/831269\/grey-s-anatomy-s-ellen-pompeo-justin-chambers-tells-us-how-they-really-feel-about-a-possible-meredith-alex-romance?query=justin%20chambers\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">played the character<\/a> for the last 16 seasons, and is one of the last few remaining members of the main cast of the hit medical drama, which premiered in 2005.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>His last episode saw him leaving to go take care of his ailing mother, and he was replaced as head of pediatric surgery by&nbsp;Dr. Cormac Hayes played by <em>Shameless&nbsp;<\/em>alum&nbsp;<strong>Richard Flood<\/strong>.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<\/section>\n<\/div>\n<div id=\"text-2\" data-hook=\"scrollable-block\" readability=\"64.734446130501\">\n<section data-textblock-tracking=\"text-block-text-only\" data-swiftype-index=\"false\" readability=\"23.975720789074\">\n<p>&#8220;There&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eonline.com\/news\/1018427\/when-will-grey-s-anatomy-end-everything-the-cast-and-producers-have-said?query=justin%20chambers\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">no good time to say goodbye<\/a> to a show and character that&#8217;s defined so much of my life for the past 15 years,&#8221; Justin said in his statement to E! News. &#8220;For some time now, however, I have hoped to diversify my acting roles and career choices. And, as I turn 50 and am blessed with my remarkable, supportive wife and five wonderful children, now is that time.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Justin went on to say, &#8220;As I move on from <em>Grey&#8217;s Anatomy<\/em>, I want to thank the ABC family, Shonda Rimes, original cast members Ellen Pompeo, Chandra Wilson and James Pickens, and the rest of the amazing cast and crew, both past and present, and, of course, the fans for an extraordinary ride.&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/section>\n<\/div>\n<div id=\"video-int-txt-3\" data-hook=\"scrollable-block\" readability=\"26.619469026549\">\n<section data-textblock-tracking=\"text-block-video-text\" data-swiftype-index=\"false\" readability=\"3.3274336283186\">\n<p>It&#8217;s always <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eonline.com\/news\/1019700\/what-the-grey-s-anatomy-cast-was-thinking-as-they-hit-their-record-breaking-332-episodes?query=justin%20chambers\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">hard to say goodbye<\/a> to a member of the <em>Grey&#8217;s Anatomy<\/em> family, but this one&#8217;s going to leave a scar.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<\/section>\n<\/div>\n<div id=\"tune-in-4\" data-hook=\"scrollable-block\" readability=\"32\">\n<p class=\"tune-in__text\" data-swiftype-index=\"false\">Watch <i>E! News<\/i> weekday mornings at 7 a.m.!<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.eonline.com\/news\/1110619\/justin-chambers-final-grey-s-anatomy-episode-has-already-aired?cmpid=rss-000000-rssfeed-365-topstories&#038;utm_source=eonline&#038;utm_medium=rssfeeds&#038;utm_campaign=rss_topstories\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">via:: E! Online<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>David Buchan\/Variety\/Shutterstock It&#8217;s too late to say goodbye. Actor Justin Chambers has played the beloved character of Dr. Alex Karev for the last 15 years, but sadly, the time has come for the actor to pack up his scrubs and say goodbye. On Friday, it was revealed that the beloved character has walked the halls [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[55],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-286283","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-music-news"],"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-10-05 07:04:55","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"distributor_meta":false,"distributor_terms":false,"distributor_media":false,"distributor_original_site_name":"KIDN - The Lift FM","distributor_original_site_url":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kidn","push-errors":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kidn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/286283","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kidn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kidn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kidn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kidn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=286283"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kidn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/286283\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kidn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=286283"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kidn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=286283"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kidn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=286283"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}