KATHERINE HEIGL - GREY'S ANATOMY CO-STARS RALLY AROUND HEIGL

LATEST: KATHERINE HEIGL's GREY'S ANATOMY co-stars have rallied around her after issues surrounding her contract renegotiations became public last week (ends02MAR07). Heigl, who plays IZZIE STEVENS on the hit show, issued a statement last week stating she was "embarrassed" about the public dispute and had been treated with disrespect by her TV bosses. Co-star KATE WALSH says, "She's a super-talented girl. Everyone's just working hard... I don't really get into all that stuff. Everybody is doing their own thing with negotiations." Co-star SARA RAMIREZ adds, "She's lovely. Everybody's very professional, not just Katherine, but everybody else, too. At the end of the day, we all have to be grateful for our jobs. "We're working actors, and not only that, we're on a hit show." Heigl dropped out of renegotiations last week, but network executives fired back, saying the star was contractually obliged to remain on the hit TV show for "several years".