Mandy Moore is checking into Seattle Grace, TVGuide.com reported Friday. The 25-year-old singer-actress has been tapped to appear as a patient on the two-hour season finale of ABC’s medical drama Grey’s Anatomy. Mandy will play Mary, an ill young woman being treated by Chandra Wilson’s Dr. Bailey, on the May 20 finale.

Disney’s Demi Lovato has landed a guest role on ABC’s award-winning Thursday night medicial drama Grey’s Anatomy.

The role will be unlike anything the 17-year-old Sonny with a Chance starlet has embarked on before: Demi — who recently revealed that she is dating Jonas Brothers star Joe Jonas — will play a patient being treated at Seattle Grace for possible schizophrenia on an episode set to air on Grey’s this May.

Demi is ecstatic about her new starring role, writing on her Twitter page on Monday: “I’m so thrilled to announce that this week I’m shooting Grey’s Anatomy!!!!!!!! :D AHHH!!!!”

It took a while — but Katherine “Open Mouth, Insert Foot” Heigl has finally apologized for publicly dissing the Grey’s Anatomy writing team. Heigl — who announced her departure from ABC’s award-winning medical drama earlier this week — is sorry for snubbing the Emmy Awards in 2008 and blaming Grey’s writers for her decision not to enter the race.

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We’ve seen the last of Dr. Isobel “Izzie” Stevens. Katherine Heigl confirms her departure from Grey’s Anatomy in this week’s issue of Entertainment Weekly.

Grey’s creator Shonda Rhimes has granted Heigl her request to be let out of her contract 18 months early.

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Entertainment Weekly is reporting that budding movie star Katherine Heigl is poised to exit her role as Dr. Isobel Stevens on Grey’s Anatomy. On Thursday, television snitch Michael Ausiello cited industry tattles who claim that after seven seasons, an Emmy, and a boatload of controversies, series creator Shonda Rhimes has given the greenlight to a deal to release Heigl from her contract with the award-winning ABC medical drama. We hear Katherine’s “people” are in the process of hashing out the deets on an agreement that will pave the way for the 27 Dresses to exit Seattle Grace.