Normally, I’m a little suspect of people who have initials for a first name, but I make an exception in the case of T.R. Knight.  He just seems to be a nice, normal human being — doesn’t belong in Hollywood at all — who tells it like it is.

In this week’s Entertainment Weekly, Knight reveals that his role on Grey’s Anatomy wasn’t just slowly phased out, but cut suddenly and drastically.

“There just comes a time when it’s so clear that moving on is the best decision,” Knight says in this week’s issue of Entertainment Weekly, on newsstands tomorrow. The actor cites a “breakdown in communication” with Rhimes and says he asked to be let out of his $14 million contract three years early.

“My five-year experience proved to me that I could not trust any answer that was given [about his character, George],” states Knight, who says George evolved into someone he didn’t understand or even respect (the character slept with his best friend, Izzie — played by Katherine Heigl — while he was married to Sara Ramirez’s character, Callie). Knight also resented his noticeable lack of screen time. “It didn’t seem like an ebb to me,” he says. “No other series regular’s character had ever disappeared like mine did this past season.”

In addition to being cut, he also said that series creator Shonda Rhimes wasn’t supportive of his decision to come out of the closet after the Isaiah Washington “faggot” incident. 

However, Knight says complications arose between him and Rhimes immediately after the incident, when he decided to respond to the sticky situation by outing himself. The actor says Rhimes was among those who wanted him to remain in the closet — though in the EW article, the creator herself denies this.

I guess I just give a lot of credit to an actor who makes a decision to walk based on principles.  As opposed to some people coughKatherineHeiglcough who abandon the role that make them a star strictly for monetary advancement.  Knight will now be a starving stage actor as he gears up for his September appearance in Parade and then will star in Lend Me A Tenor on Broadway next winter.  

It’s only the Daily Star, but they are reporting that Amy Winehouse is working on developing a fragrance.  Yep, she’s jumping on the celebrity perfume bandwagon.  I mean, is there anything about Amy Winehouse that is synonymous with “Smells Good”?  No.  Though I feel the same way about Paris Hilton and she’s got about 157 fragrances in her empire.  Perhaps by the holidays we’ll be able to buy Wino, with top notes of cocaine and bourbon and secondary wisps of subtle desperation.

In other Amy news, yesterday she appeared at court for her latest legal entanglement.  Last summer she allegedly punched a fan and has opted to try the “I’m too short to punch anyone” defense.  Clearly still high. 

And why is no one focused on the real story?  The one about how Amy Crackhouse wore her slippers to court.

Slumber party!!!!

A bra-free Lindsay was spotted leaving Samantha’s house yesterday with a bag filled up with what looks like clothes. I’m sure toward the bottom she has the rest of the usuals: toothbrush, toothpaste, face wash, conflict resolution techniques, etc. Everything she needs to spend the night.

Behold, the press release:

New VH1 series “My Antonio” follows General Hospital soap star, former Calvin Klein model, and notorious bachelor Antonio Sabato Jr. on his search for true love. In this 10-episode series, thirteen beautiful women will be competing for the affection of one of the most desired men on the planet. This real-life soap opera also has a shocking plot twist when Antonio’s ex-wife shows up, pleading for Antonio to take her back. Antonio, along with the help of his scrutinizing mother, will attempt to find a new leading lady to love by the end of this dramatic journey.

Wow. So, um, now I don’t have to watch it, right? Since you totally gave away the big twist? Because otherwise I was sooo tuning in. Antonio Sabato Jr is definitely one of the most desirable men on the planet. As long as you mean Planet NOT!!!! (Zing!)

Really, like, I love you, VH1, but you’ve put Best Week Ever on permanent hiatus and every other show you air is a sleazy D-lister dating show. I understand that you’ve found a niche, but maybe next you could spend some time trying to find your dignity. You know, the little pieces you use to fill in the shell of your former self.

Anyway: Fun game! Of all these women, which managed to be posed worse for the photo? (I have an advantage because I have the hi-res version, but I have faith in your abilities. Although you can view the hi-res version by clicking on the photo, then again on the photo on the next page.)

Kirsten Stewart looking like Joan Jett? Dakota Fanning looking like Taylor Momsen? Seventies jeans???

How can you not love it?

And Joan Jett actually is in some of these photos.

… Michael Lohan is involved.

Yes, that Michael Lohan. You know he’s been salivating from the start of this, trying to figure out how best to exploit Jon’s naivete and worm himself into this story. Mission accomplished!

Yes, we all know that Jon Gosselin took Hailey Glassman to France last week, but this week he has a new girl on her arm. She’s Kate Majors, a reporter for Star, which wasted absolutely no time in getting her to confess to their coupledom. “I didn’t mean it to happen, it just did,” she says. “I went to do a story on Jon and ended up falling for him.”

My Lord, Kate Majors, your romantic life jumped straight off a porn set, drove from Malibu to New York in shiny-ass Cadillac, and bumped right into you, didn’t it? Wait … is that why your face looks that way?

And now, enter from stage left, Michael Lohan, who invited the twosome to chill with him at his place in the Hamptons on Wednesday. And Jon Gosselin, who is clearly uninterested in consulting with any professionals as regards his “image” or “career” or “future court dates,” accepted. He took the little girl to the Hamptons with MICHAEL LOHAN.

“Jon is a friend, he’s a great guy, he needed a place to get away to, and my doors were open to him and Kate Major,” Lohan says. “Jon and Kate [Major] are good friends of mine. She’s with him. Kate’s like a daughter to me. When she needed a place my doors were open.”

OMG. I don’t even want to think about the relationship Kate Major may have had with Michael Lohan before any of this went down. In fact, now I’m thinking it may have been Michael Lohan who instructed Kate Major to hook up with Jon and then take him to the Hamptons, so that Michael Lohan could become a part of this story. It’s just plain crazy.

Really, though, this plot has turned out so much better than anything I could have scripted, and I have a feeling it’ll continue to blossom beautifully. I mean, if Michael Lohan’s involved, you know Lindsay and Paris can’t be far behind. Come on, Universe. I’m asking nicely.