Grey’s Anatomy is enlisting Jack Bauer’s ex to throw a monkey wrench into Owen and Cristina’s burgeoning romance. Sources confirm that Grey’s has tapped former 24 heroine Kim Raver to join the cast as a new surgeon and a possible love interest for Kevin McKidd’s doc.
Back in August, Owen’s portrayer, Kevin McKidd, revealed that a major skeleton would tumble out of Owen’s closet this season. “Someone comes to the hospital that he was connected to in his past, not his ex-fiancée, but it’s somebody we didn’t expect,” the actor told E! Online. “I think it could get a little tricky, but exciting and interesting. Hopefully it will bring [Owen and Cristina] closer in the long run.”
Raver’s role is recurring and she will debut in this season’s ninth episode, airing Nov. 12.
Thoughts?
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ugh. don’t like kim raver at all. i was just starting to get really excited about christina and owen, too! i hate wrenches.
You can’t be too excited about Cristina. You don’t even know there’s no h in her name!
ooh, you’re such a fan. stop showing off!
wow, sorry. i didn’t know there were spelling police on this board.
@ ila:
You DO know that you can like and watch the show without “McDreamy Cornflakes” for breakfast, right?
I reely like Deruck, Meradeth, Izzy, Arazona, Balee, and the Cheef! It’s a grate show!
rofl
ur a dork
I really don’t like Kim Raver either. I hope she pulls a Rose or Hann and is kicked to the curb for being unlikable and uninteresting.
You mean Hahn??
@ila
Get a freaking life! Now!!
I hope you never make a typo…then we’re all going to jump on it!!
I am really starting to LOVE Owen and Cristina too! But I am not worried about this character, it will just make it interesting!
I love Cristina and Owen but it will be fun watching Cristina jealous of Owen’s ex!
Yeah, it should be interesting. However, it was really fun to watch the baseball game and it would be far more interesting to watch Owen get to really know Christina, and how he handles “dark, twistd Christina”. Love it when he stands up to her. Definitely soulmates! THE BEST couple on tv. And the Min reason I watch Greys again! Also love Mer and Chris together, need more Callie with Mark too! LOVe the friendships in the show! It doesn’t always have to be about romantic love Shonda! More outside hospital scenes too please!
Oops, better watch my spelling! Cristina with no H. Also, I meant “main”, not “min” reason I watch Greys again! Can’t wait for lighter Owen this season. Can’t blame Kim’s character for saying she’d go back to the battleground just to be with him!.. Oh, and I know the whole Burke thing is probably being avoided by the writers and ABC but, come on sooner or later he has to be mentioned by Cristina. Owen has to find out! Now that would be interesting.
Love, love, love Kim Raver. I’m thrilled she’s coming to Grey’s. If she won’t reappear as Audrey on 24, being on Grey’s is a nice consolation prize for this viewer!
I like Kim Raver, too, but we seem to be in the minority. It sounds like she’s playing the Addison-equivalent, if Cristina and Owen were Mer and Derick. I hope the writers are more imaginative than that.
Kim Raver is perfect. She and Jack were the best and she and Owen will be too. Enough if Cristina’s negative, poor me crap. Welcome Kim Raver. Can’t wait for tonight!
I love Kim Raver as well and I was a fan of Audrey in 24, but I can see the Cristina-Owen fans disliking her a mile away.
I love her too, but if she breaks up C/O, I will want her to die a fiery, horrible death.
I don’t like Kim Raver at all and now she’s going to help ruin the best thing GA still has going? No thanks.
I agree with you 100%! I can’t stand Kim Raver! However, I’d be all for a shake-up of Cristina & Owen’s relationship just to keep things interesting (so long as they ultimately end up together, of course!) but at least get a less annoying actress to play the part.
I am all for a little shake up too! As long as ultimately Cristina and Owen are together! The physical and emotional chemistry between this couple is off the charts!
What I love about this couple is they can be so freaking HOT / Sexy one moment and freaking adorable / awwwww worthy the next moment! Cristina and Owen are the whole package.
Owen and Cristina are just perfect together! As the writers say in their blog, Owen is good for Cristina!
Agreed 100%
BLAZING VOLCANIC CHEMISTRY = Cristina and Owen!!!!!!
As long as no one messes with Lexie and Mark, I’m good.
I agree, do not mess with Lexie and Mark!!!!
Please, mess with Lexie and Mark!! Can’t stand them together!
Oh, no way! Lexie and Mark are freakin’ adorable! Seriously.
Amen, Sistah! Bring back Mark and Callie who were sooo smoking hot together. Get Lexie a nice little milquetoast (WHICH I spelled correctly!:p) just like her.
I think Lexie and Mark are awesome together.
how many hoops are these guys gonna have to jump through? They were just starting to work it out! Of course now that Mer and Der are quasi-happy Grey’s needed a new power couple to make (more) miserable…
Then again, this could be really fun to watch. That, or just really painful.
well , just to say you have an lovely name !! , I will watch GA and see what Kim will add
I think Kim Raver will be a great addition. She is a great actress!
I wish Kim Raver would stop infiltrating my shows! She’s as stiff as a piece of cardboard and doesn’t know the meaning of emotion. Yuck! On top of that, she’s going to mess with one of my favorite couples? Double yuck!
Glad to see I’m not alone in my dislike for Kim Raver. Lousy actress. Not happy about her showing up on Grey’s. Less thrilled about her as a spoiler for Cristina and Owen.
Interesting!!
Definitely not a Kim Raver fan. Hopefully she won’t last long.
How does this woman continue to get work? She is a horrible actress and a show killer! Can we say the Nine? Lipstick Jungle? Shonda what are you doing?
And yet she was amazing in 24, which I’ll be honest is where I’d rather she show up.
i agree i want her back on 24, not greys. I WANT AUDREY BACK NOW.
I want her back on 24 as well, for me she’s the only one who is meant for Jack!
You want the writers to throw obstacles into the way. More interesting. No obstacles and you get the lameness of Mark and Lexie.
I don’t love the thought of an obstacle for Cristina and Owen, because I love them together, but I do adore Kim Raver and can’t wait to see her on TV again.
Ax her now, Shonda. Ax her now.
I hope it’s fun and not painful like the short-lived Derek/Rose relationship
I absolutely love Kim Raver and can’t wait to see her on one of my favorite shows!
Why? No seriously, why?
Another triangle on Grey’s? Yawn. Really, can they not think of any other story?
agreed!
ausiello– where is my smallville scoop?! if i don’t get it soon, somebody’s getting slapped. and since i don’t have the money to fly to you, you’ll have my roommate to answer to.
Shonda must really hate the fans. I mean seriously, can’t Cris/Owen just get some happy time? And why did it have to be Kim Raver of all people?
Well, that sucks. Should be good though – cristina and owen are currently my second favorite couple. I suddenly fell for Mark and Lexie. Theyre too presh.
I like Kim raver , I was waiting her to reprise her role in 24 as Audrey , I can’t see Jack without her , but happy to see Kim again , she is Definitely an great actress , 24 lost her !
I agree on all accounts.
It’s the Plant 2.0! Make it stop, Shonda! Ugh. I bet the Kim’s character either served with him in Iraq or they went to med school together. They may or may not have had a fling in the past.
But it’s all good. She can’t hold a candle to Cristina!
LOL. Couldn’t have given a better name to her character.
Cristina is going to give her hell…
I know the frustration. I want the end of AI and ML crap but give me a break. Kim is a great actress and she’s more attractive than Sandra Oh. I like both but we can’t lie. Secondly you can’t compare her with that Idiot of Lauren Stamile. Kim is more like Walsh.
Please stop talking like what you are saying are facts. You’re stating opinions, just like she was.
Speaking of facts, here’s a couple for you:
1. Kim Raver doesn’t have 5 Emmy nominations under her belt.
2. Hahn and Sadie, both of whom messed with Cristina, didn’t last long on the show.
I’ve never seen Kim Raver in a show, so the comments above make me worry a bit. There are too many happy couples on the show, though, so I think they need to throw somebody else into the mix. I would personally prefer they give us some sort of relationship for Bailey. The show’s been on for years now, and she’s never even had an onscreen kiss, has she?
see 24 season 4 and season 5 , see Lipstick Jungle , Kim raver is a successful actress that’s why she had a haters .
sorry and see the 3ed watch ,
Baily need to hook up with the chief, create a new love line for the show, they will try to keep it secret, lots of gossip
Oh, my Lord, no!!! Bailey deserves a great guy HER OWN AGE who loves and appreciates her. The Chief just about dilled himself to get his marriage back on track, and then he blows it by hooking up with Bailey? That would be all kinds of wrong.
this show is going DOWNHILL and i bet no one will watch by next season. shonda and everyone else will be out of a job, and they will have ruined a perfectly good tv show
Hopefully, we’ll get another ILY out of this. Cristina and Owen belong together.
Cristina is at her best when she is not happy. I am thrilled!
i love kim raver she is a great actress. if she cant be on 24 which is my favorite show, at least she can be on greys which is my second favorite show! and the two seasons of 24 that she was a main cast member (4,5) were two of the best.
Why does every “twist” have to be an ex? Don’t they have an ORIGINAL story??
what if she is his sister? it only says possible love interest in the story by Kevin’s spoiler doesnt mention romance
For everyone who thinks Kim Raver is a horrible actress who can’t show emotion go find the episode of Third Watch where Bobby dies, and then come back and try again. LOVE HER! I can’t wait for her to come to Grey’s! I hope she’ll be around for a LONG time!
Third Watch hasn’t been on air in 4 years! In that time, Kim Raver has been on a number of other shows, sucking the life out of all of them.
Just because the shows “had the life sucked out of them” doesn’t mean she caused it. Kim Raver was amazing in Third Watch, and was the only likable person in that craptastic Lipstick Jungle. She’ll be awesome in Grey’s, provided they give her good material to work with (which she really hasn’t been getting since Third Watch.)
to all of those people who dont’ like this new twist – seriously? Sounds like Cristina’s going to have some (perceived?) competition – and we all know how Cristina behaves when there’s a competition. Cristina and Kim, start your engines, let the hilarity ensue; I can’t wait!
Come on, bring Kim back to 24!
Owen has too much drama already.. let christina and owen be.. so far season 06 is not what i´ve expected taking into consideration s05 finale.