Jake Borelli, who plays surgical resident Levi Schmitt in the show, has been a series regular for the past five seasons.<\/p>\n
Season 21 is set to mark his last appearance in Grey Sloan Memorial Hospital, with Deadline reporting the actor is currently in negotiations to wrap up his storyline.<\/p>\n
Borelli\u2019s exit is believed to be due to budget cuts at ABC.<\/p>\n
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\n<\/source><\/source><\/source><\/source><\/source><\/source><\/source><\/source><\/source><\/source><\/source><\/source><\/source><\/source><\/picture>\n<\/div>Borelli\u2019s time on the show has seen him cover groundbreaking territory since joining in season 14, including being part of the first kiss between two male actors on the series.<\/p>\n
His character, Levi, was in a relationship with Grey\u2019s first openly gay male character, Nico Kim (Alex Landi).<\/p>\n
Though the pair have since broken up, their romance marked the first such storyline between two male characters on the series (the show had previously featured a lesbian romance between Sara Ramirez\u2019s Callie Torres and Jessica Capshaw\u2019s Arizona Robbins<\/a>).<\/p>\n Read more:<\/strong><\/p>\n As well as making LGBTQIA history on the show, Borelli\u2019s character has been at the centre of some of Grey\u2019s major storylines in recent years.<\/p> His character was the only one from his class of interns who remained at the hospital following the disbandment of the residency programme. He also suffered from declining mental health after losing a patient.<\/p>\n It\u2019s unclear at this stage how his exit will be approached, and whether the door will be left open for a possible return in the future.<\/p>\n [squirrel-affiliate-playlist squirrel_playlist_id=\u201d612\u2033 \/]<\/p>\n Grey\u2019s Anatomy seasons 1 to 20 (so far) are available to stream on Disney Plus <\/strong>now \u2013\u00a0sign up to Disney Plus for \u00a37.99 a month or \u00a379.90 a year<\/a>\u00a0now.<\/strong><\/p>\n Check out more of our\u00a0<\/strong>Drama<\/strong><\/a>\u00a0coverage or visit our\u00a0<\/strong>TV Guide<\/strong><\/a>\u00a0to see what\u2019s on tonight.<\/strong>\u00a0For more from the biggest stars in TV, listen to <\/strong>The Radio Times Podcast<\/strong><\/a>.<\/strong><\/p> <\/body><\/html>\n Someone is leaving Grey Sloan Memorial Hospital in season 21. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":24,"featured_media":51413,"template":"","categories":[1,5],"acf":[],"uagb_featured_image_src":{"full":["https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/uploads\/sites\/56\/2024\/05\/greys-anatomy-exit-revealed-for-groundbreaking-character-next-season-scaled.jpg",2560,1707,false],"thumbnail":["https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/uploads\/sites\/56\/2024\/05\/greys-anatomy-exit-revealed-for-groundbreaking-character-next-season-150x150.jpg",150,150,true],"medium":["https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/uploads\/sites\/56\/2024\/05\/greys-anatomy-exit-revealed-for-groundbreaking-character-next-season-300x200.jpg",300,200,true],"medium_large":["https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/uploads\/sites\/56\/2024\/05\/greys-anatomy-exit-revealed-for-groundbreaking-character-next-season-768x512.jpg",768,512,true],"large":["https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/uploads\/sites\/56\/2024\/05\/greys-anatomy-exit-revealed-for-groundbreaking-character-next-season-1024x683.jpg",800,534,true],"1536x1536":["https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/uploads\/sites\/56\/2024\/05\/greys-anatomy-exit-revealed-for-groundbreaking-character-next-season-1536x1024.jpg",1536,1024,true],"2048x2048":["https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/uploads\/sites\/56\/2024\/05\/greys-anatomy-exit-revealed-for-groundbreaking-character-next-season-2048x1365.jpg",2048,1365,true]},"uagb_author_info":{"display_name":"importmanagerhub@sprylab.com","author_link":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/radiotimes\/author\/importmanagerhubsprylab-com\/"},"uagb_comment_info":0,"uagb_excerpt":"Someone is leaving Grey Sloan Memorial Hospital in season 21.","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/radiotimes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/rss_feed\/51412"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/radiotimes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/rss_feed"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/radiotimes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/rss_feed"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/radiotimes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/24"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/radiotimes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/51413"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/radiotimes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=51412"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/radiotimes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=51412"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}\n
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