Katherine Heigl withdraws from Emmys race, citing bad material

Katherine Heigl has declined to submit her name to be a contender for an Emmy Award this year, releasing this press release to explain her absence. I did not feel that I was given the material this season to warrant an Emmy nomination and in an effort to maintain the integrity of the academy organization,


Katherine Heigl has declined to submit her name to be a contender for an Emmy Award this year, releasing this press release to explain her absence.

“I did not feel that I was given the material this season to warrant an Emmy nomination and in an effort to maintain the integrity of the academy organization, I withdrew my name from contention,” she tells Gold Derby. “In addition, I did not want to potentially take away an opportunity from an actress who was given such materials.”

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It is not unheard of for multiple Emmy winners to withdraw their names to give others a chance, but they would normally announce this before the nominations were released. Katherine has released the information after a request for a statement, making it looks like she really is stubborn and obstinate.

This year Grey’s Anatomy hasn’t been very good, particularly Katherine’s character Izzy has been dull. Possibly as a result of Katherine last year publicly criticizing the writer’s for the storyline, saying her character’s storyline was a ‘ratings ploy’.

Katherine is really outspoken in interviews and says some unflattering things about scriptwriters. If this is what she says to the press when she is, I presume, self censoring, I think she must be very difficult to work with. If she keeps criticizing everyone she works with she may find herself unemployed very soon.

I think that Katherine is trying to move away from television into film, although her last film 27 Dresses was a hit it was an awful movie. Her only other film post-Grey’s was Knocked Up, and she’s signed on for another comedy about polygamists, which could be a poor move depending on how the charges against the sect in Eldorado, Texas pans out in public opinion.

Katherine Heigl is shown on the set of her film The Ugly Truth with Gerard Butler on 6/3/08, thanks to WENN.

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