Ellen was at Letterman last monday for taping an interview. It airs this thursday.

Pictures of her arriving there.

“This fashionable shot of ELLEN POMPEO is part of the ONE.org campaign that features several celebrities uniting to help fight global AIDS and extreme poverty in Africa.”

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As “The Sopranos” won its last Emmy Award on Sunday night at the Shrine Auditorium, everyone at the awards began the scramble for their limos, heading out for a big night on the town. Some stayed behind to hit the Governor’s Ball, however – winners Jamie Pressly, America Ferrera, Helen Mirren, Sally Field, and Robert Duvall stayed around for that one. But most people had picked out their favorite place to be, and that took some driving.

The hottest ticket of the night was the Entertainment Tonight/People magazine party, held downtown at the Walt Disney Concert Hall. Hot because of the sophisticated venue (never used for an after party before) and the band (Duran Duran) set to play; so it was no surprise that the limos lined up out front, pouring out famous faces.

Outstanding Lead Actress in a Comedy Series (“Ugly Betty”) winner America Ferrara clutched her golden statue and smiled for the cameras, looking fantastic (sans braces and glasses, of course) in her cobalt blue jewel-toned Monique Lhuillier gown. “She made this dress for me,” the first-time winner said, “I love it, it feels really good.”

“Grey’s Anatomy” stars Ellen Pompeo and Kate Walsh obviously felt good too, as they both looked stunning. Pompeo wore a strapless navy Michael Kors gown with a matching jacket and Fred Leighton jewels, while Walsh chose a form-fitting, ruby-red, plunging neckline satin number from Pamela Dennis. Debra Messing (“The Starter Wife”) may have lost the Emmy, but she won the fashion race, in a gorgeous Ralph Lauren gown that she “snatched right off the runway” at his Spring 2008 show last week.

Felicity Huffman and hubbie William H. Macy boogeyed down to the sounds of Duran Duran, while Hayden Panettiere, Lisa Rinna, and Tori Spelling checked out the Maybelline swag booth set up in one corner of the concert hall’s vast lobby. Jeremy Piven held court at the bar with his second consecutive Emmy for his work in “Entourage,” much to the delight of Ali Larter.

Other beauties on hand for the fun were Jennifer Love Hewitt, Vanessa Williams, Ana Ortiz, Daisy Fuentes, Jane Krakowski, Jeri Ryan, and Rebecca Gayheart, along with handsome hunks Rick Fox, Tim Daly, T. R. Knight, and Harry Hamlin.

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Telegraph.co.uk has this interview on Ellen, very interesting!

So long the underdog, Ellen Pompeo has finally hit the big time as the star of the award-winning drama ‘Grey’s Anatomy’. The product of a desperately tough childhood – and now the ’12th most powerful’ celebrity in the world – she tells Marianne Macdonald how it all came good

The dark back office of a Georgian house in Bloomsbury is an incongruous place to be interviewing Ellen Pompeo. But that’s where we’ve retreated after her photo-shoot is over. It’s a far cry from the sun-baked Los Angeles lot where Pompeo is usually to be found, in scrubs, as the title character in Grey’s Anatomy. Dr Meredith Grey – brisk, vulnerable, self-destructive, talented – is a lead unlike any other on American television, and her gripping screen presence and romantic ‘car crashes’ hook 20 million viewers a week.

In its annual ‘Celebrity 100′ power list the business magazine Forbes ranked Pompeo and her co-stars at number 12 this year, while the Desperate Housewives cast languished at number 47. Yet here in Britain, where the drama is the main draw on the digital channel Living with reruns on Five, Pompeo is hardly a household name.

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Ellen Pompeo is dishing on her upcoming wedding to fiancé Chris Ivery, but she’s warning not to expect anything extravagant.

“There will be no ‘big’ anything,” the “Grey’s Anatomy” star says. “”It’s going to be very small.”

Ellen’s keeping her lips sealed on other details about the big nuptials, revealing only that the ceremony won’t take place in Los Angeles.

“We were thinking about going away and getting married,” she said.

Ellen, 37, met record producer Chris Ivery at an L.A. grocery store in 2003.

After striking up a friendship, they quickly discovered that they’d grown up just 10 miles away from each other in Massachusetts.

“We have a lot in common,” Ellen said. “We’re from the same hometown, almost.”

Ellen says her fiancé has changed her life because, “I just have somebody to share everything with, all of these moments. The bad ones and the good ones. We have a very strong bond, and we just understand each other. He’s just a real companion.”

So when Ivery proposed on her 37th birthday, she knew it was coming.

“Chris and I have been together for four and a half years, so I was completely surprised, but not that surprised,” Ellen admitted. “We’ve been together awhile.”

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“Grey’s Anatomy star Ellen Pompeo has revealed how Madonna finally helped her to cope with the loss of her mother.

The 37-year-old’s mother died when she was four-years-old but for years the family banned any mention of her.

It wasn’t until years later that Ellen, whose earliest memory is the day her mother died, could come to terms with what happened to her.

She said: “It was very tough. I think it was probably tougher for my older siblings who were a lot more cognisant of what was going on. I think I was so young there’s only so much I could understand.

“My first memory is the day she died and all the commotion.

“It’s a funny thing what happened. I come from a tradition Irish-Italian background and things aren’t talked about, you know, they’re not spoken about.

“Her death wasn’t really spoken about for years and she wasn’t spoken about. It was almost as if she never existed. It was too painful for everybody to talk about.

“So I knew what happened but I was never really allowed to grieve. There was a big chunk that was missing out of the story I didn’t quite understand.

“I was very confused and very unhappy as a young teenager.”

It wasn’t until Ellen saw Madonna talking about her mum, who she also lost as a child, that she was able to grieve.

She said: “For the first time I saw Madonna when she first came out and she was on television talking and singing songs about her mother and how her mother had passed and how sad she was.

“And it dawned on me ‘oh that’s what happened to me, my mother died’.

“And it makes you terribly sad and that’s why I’m so unhappy and it’s okay to talk about it and it’s okay to grieve and I should be sad and I should be upset and I should be allowed to go through these things.

“I didn’t even realise the enormity of what had happened because it had been so sort of buried for obvious reasons I suppose.

“So I did go through that process because of Madonna, because I saw her talking about it and singing about it, I was able to understand what happened to me and work through it and use my experiences in my favour to give me a lot of what I draw from when I act.”

Ellen also revealed that the chemistry between the Grey’s Anatomy cast is the secret to its success.

Speaking on the TV show Richard and Judy she said: “The chemistry of the cast is just lightening in a bottle. You can’t sort of plan it, you can’t predict it.

“We just all have tremendous chemistry and we got very, very lucky and we all get on very well and I think the audience feels that.

“They all are very, very skilled actors and really make you feel the stories.”

Ellen also revealed how she and her co-star Patrick Dempsey are neighbours.

She said: “Patrick Dempsey and I were neighbours. We hadn’t met but of course I had known that he lived on the street because all the girls would say ‘oh Patrick Dempsey lives in that house up there’.

“And so when I tested for the role and I had to test with the would-be love interests I saw his name on the sheet and I said ‘oh it’s going to be him’. I had a feeling because things kind of work like that don’t they.”

Ellen, who loves the traditional British dish bangers and mash, had to perform a fake operation on a plastic model to win her meal on the chat show. She won three sausages. ”

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Grey’s Anatomy star Ellen Pompeo’s actions spoke as loud as her words on June 9 at the “Life Out Loud” benefit in Los Angeles. While Pompeo took the high road when addressing costar Isaiah Washington’s firing, just her presence at the event for LifeWorks, which finds mentors for gay and lesbian youth, spoke volumes. She sat down exclusively with Usmagazine.com’s Jeffrey Epstein at the event to talk about why she cares about the cause and what she would do if she was the mother of a gay child.

US: How did you get involved with LifeWorks?
Ellen Pompeo: I got involved through Chip Sullivan who’s a dear friend and fellow Bostonite. He speaks so passionately about the organization. It’s such a wonderful organization. I would love to see it be taken nationwide.

US: Growing up did you have gay people in your life?
EP: Yes, a ton. I was raised by drag queens practically. And when I left Boston at 20 years old, I went to South Beach with all of my gay friends. Always very close with the gay community.

US: Was there anyone when you were younger who touched your life?
EP: I wouldn’t say there was one person who touched my life. There were several people who touched my life. My mother died when I was four years old, so I was effectively raised by a bunch of different people. And a lot of those people were friends of my sister, Kathleen (I have three sisters), who had all these gay friends. She would baby-sit me everyday, and she would take me over to her friend’s houses with all kinds of things going on: tucking, and eyebrow drawing, waxing, all sorts of things. I was literally raised by gay men. And a lot of other people: my grandmother, my aunts and uncles, but I spent a great deal of time with a lot of gay men.

Obviously there was a lot of controversy on your set this year, but you’re making a big statement by being here. How did that all unfold for you?
EP: I choose to focus on, now what has happened but what we can do. What can we do to make things like this [referring to Isaiah’s outburst] not happen again? What can we do to be proactive and change the environment and more forward and make it a day when we don’t have these problems. And hopefully organizations like LifeWorks moves us in that direction.

US: How did it affect you to hear the kind of language, that word, that obviously a lot of gay youth hear every single day?
EP: I’m not going to take the martyr position and say, “It hurts me deeply”‚ because I don’t know what it is to bear that burden. I don’t know what it is to be gay. I don’t know that struggle and pain—or, hopefully, that happiness and joy. I don’t know that experience. But what I do see is my friends who are hurt by that language.

US: And when T.R. came out, it was an amazing positive thing. It puts a really good role model out there.
EP: I have to say, when T.R. came out, I did cry. Such tremendous courage. Most people don’t have to come out to the world like that.

US: Is your fiancee Chris Ivery as open minded as you?
EP: Yes, he grew up in Cambridge, Massachusetts, one of the most liberal places on the planet. And he grew up with a white Jewish mother and a black father, so he has had to deal with a lot of diversity issues as well. So we’re very open minded.

US: Cher is famous for having said how, despite having tons of gay friends and fans, she didn’t take it so well when Chastity came out of the closet. How would you feel if your child was gay?
EP: Just fine. As long as my child was happy and healthy and hopefully could grow up and decorate my houses [laughs]!

US: Do you want to have kids?
EP: Maybe not kids. Maybe one.

US: Have you and Chris set a date.
EP: We have not.

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Grey’s Anatomy won as Best Drama Series, and more pictures here.

And, a new episode of Grey’s tonight