Grey’s Anatomy star Katherine Heigl pulled herself out of the list of Emmy Award contenders as part of a protest about her character’s development on the medical drama.

The actress, who won the Best Supporting Actress prize at the Emmys last year insisted she be left off the official ballot because she felt her character was awful during the most recent season of the show.

Heigl tells website GoldDerby.com: “I did not feel that I was given the material this season to warrant an Emmy nomination and (so), in an effort to maintain the integrity of the academy organisation, I withdrew my name from contention.”

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Katherine Heigl will star in and produce the feature film adaptation of “Escape,” the bestselling memoir of Carolyn Jessop, whose testimony helped convict polygamist sect leader Warren Jeffs.

Relevant Entertainment and Como Court Prods. acquired the book. Michael Menchel and Cat Williams will produce with Heigl and her Abishag partner Nancy Heigl.

Jessop was born into the Fundamentalist Church of Latter Day Saints sect. At 18 she married a man 32 years her senior; at 35, she fled with her eight children.

Equity financier Como Court Prods. will pay to develop the script.

Relevant was started by Menchel, the former longtime CAA agent who became a manager at Artists Management Group before shifting to producer. The shingle has set up several projects at studios including a Paramount film Menchel is producing with Simon Cowell about tenor Paul Potts and the family film “The Tortoise & The Hippo” at Walden Media.

Heigl is shooting the Robert Luketic-directed Sony/Lakeshore comedy “The Ugly Truth.” Abishag projects include “Alpha Moms,” a Ryan Shiraki-scripted comedy for Warner Bros., which the Heigls are producing with Code Entertainment’s Larry Kennar and Rick Berg, and the Fox 2000/Spyglass action comedy “Drawn Together.”

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Grey’s Anatomy star Katherine Heigl received a bouquet of flowers outside of her Los Feliz area home over the weekend. Heigl happily picked up the bouquet and scanned for a card. After finding the card, Heigl read it aloud to her mother and said, “My dearest flower, Oh how I miss you on the long and lonely road. See You Soon. Love, Joshua.” Heigl smiled and showed the card to her mother. Mrs. Heigl shook her head and then said, “You sent these to yourself? I mean, I just saw Joshua just sitting on the couch setting up the VCR to record Hannah Montana episodes. Let’s not be that desperate for publicity.” Heigl then picked out a brownie from the grocery bag attached to the flowers and said, “Sometimes, you need to take off the manager hat and just wear the mom hat, mom,” then stomped back into her house, “And it’s not a VCR, it’s a DVR, mom!”

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On the set of her new film The Ugly Truth, popular actress Katherine Heigl was greeted by her future self, circa the year 2020. In unison, Heigl and her future self said that each other looked fabulous and asked each other what their workout secret was. Present Heigl asked her future self to go first, but she insisted that present day Heigl go first. Eventually, they agreed that, after a count of three, they would say their secret at the same time. Their workout secret turned out to be kettle bells!

After much laughter, present day Heigl asked the reason for the visit from her future self. Future Heigl said, “Well, one, I really needed a Capri Sun. We ran out of these in the future. For the most part, we’re doing great in the future aside from the Capri Sun drought. Still working. Nailed the transition to the movies full-time for a little bit, but now, the dismount back into television is proving a bit more difficult. Go figure. Anyways, just wondering if I could borrow some money to produce a demo for Joshua? I thought that VH1 would pay more for a reality series, but the checks are a little smaller than I thought and taking their sweet time getting there.” Present day Heigl seemed upset at the news of doing a reality series in the future, but Future Heigl assured her that it’s done all in good taste and asked if it would be cool if she took the rest of the Capri Sun supply.

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Before walking the red carpet at this weekend’s Chrysalis Butterfly Ball, Knocked Up star Katherine Heigl had a brief pow-wow with her husband, musician Joshua Kelley. It was reported that Kelley pouted in the limo on the way to the event and that his gloomy mood was due to the fact that he had to ‘Craiglist’ his pit tickets for the Iron Maiden concert in order to attend this event with his wife. Since Heigl would not be able to smoke at the event, the absolute last thing she wanted to deal with was a husband who was going to singing “Take Your Daughter To The Slaughter” under his breath the whole night, so she brokered a deal with her husband in an attempt to salvage the evening. In exchange for his good behavior, Heigl would treat her husband to a delicious brunch at Griddle City (without any cigarette smoking during the meal!), a trip to Hobby City for RC Cars and a 21-plus screening of Sex And The City: The Movie at the Arclight. Kelley agreed, but under one condition: Heigl would have to buy him a really sweet and really awesome vintage Iron Maiden concert t-shirt. She accepted and the two lived happily ever after.

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Katherine out shopping in Hills.

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After a brief honeymoon with cupcake and various delicious treats, Grey’s Anatomy star Katherine Heigl switched back to the Hollywood power diet of cigarettes and Diet Coke. Heigl has cited the change in diet for the overall improvement in her disposition. Heigl said, “I was always so bitchy and crazy when I was ingesting sugar all the time. Now that I’m back to the natural elements, the basics, I don’t know. I feel so energized and not dreading everything. I’m starting to not mind Joshua’s bitching and even sometimes, allowing him to call himself, Josh. ”

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During a trip to the grocery store, Grey’s Anatomy star Katherine Heigl enlisted the help of a majority of Gelson’s bagger department to load her groceries into her car, leaving the supermarket’s customers to their own bagging devices. According to one of the baggers, Heigl was the first person to take up her usually sarcastic offer to help with taking bags to their car. Little did the bagger know that Heigl had over three shopping carts full of stuff and would require assistance from another bagger, leaving the supermarket without help during prime weekend shopping hours. Many angry customers were quick to label Heigl as a bagger hog and said that there’s an unwritten rule where the only people who are allowed to have bagger assistance are old people.

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