The friendship between Izzie Stevens and George O’Malley on Grey’s Anatomy was a thing of beauty.
A new BTS book has revealed Heigl, Knight and even Ellen Pompeo all had different — and very valid — reasons for disliking Izzie and George’s courtship.
It probably had something to do with the fact that Katherine Heigl and T.R. Knight were BFFs in real life.
But because TV writers seemingly hate platonic boy/girl relationships, Izzie and George became romantically involved in Seasons 3 and 4.