★ News came this week that season 11 of Grey’s Anatomy will have 24 episodes. In addition to the full season order (22 episodes) Grey’s Anatomy had, ABC has ordered an additional two episodes. Source: TV Line

 
★  In the aftermath of Thursday’s Callie and Arizona centric episode of Grey’s Anatomy, Jessica Capshaw gave an interview to TV Guide where she talks a bit about working with Justin.

It’s funny to see Callie and Meredith (Ellen Pompeo) bond over their troubles, but it’s also kind of heartwarming to see the interactions between Arizona and Alex (Justin Chambers).
Capshaw: Alex is always kind of her person. It’s really funny — Justin and I are good friends outside of the show and when we go to do these scenes, he’s such a great actor and he’s been playing this part for so long that his reactions and his playing of the character comes very easy to him. And it is very Alex. He’s a boy and he’s like, “Dude, get over it.” Of course, I come to it as Jessica playing Arizona, and then Justin’ll be like, “Dude, get over it.” I’m like, “Can you please be nicer to me in that scene?”

Source: TV Guide

 
★ As usual, the screencaptures from this week’s episode of Grey’s Anatomy have been added to the gallery. The link to the album is below.

Screencaps > 11.05 – Bend & Break

 
★ Grey’s Anatomy will not be airing next Thursday. Instead, we’ll have to wait until November 6 for episode 11.07 titled “Don’t Let’s Start”. Here is the promo for the next episode.

The People’s Choice Awards opened the voting to decide the final 5 nominees in each category which will be announced on November 4, 2014 (winners of the PCA’s will be announced live on January 7, 2015).

Justin is on the PCA’s site’s list for FAVORITE DRAMATIC TV ACTOR. This is the link to his category: http://vote.peopleschoice.com/#!/home/all/31/2 .
You can vote as many times as you want and up to five nominees each time.

Other Grey’s Anatomy-related categories and names (besides Patrick Dempsey and Jesse Williams in same category as Justin) include:
– Favorite TV Show
– Favorite Network TV Drama
– Favorite Dramatic TV Actress (Ellen Pompeo)
– Favorite TV Character We Miss the Most (Cristina Yang)

Camilla Luddington posted these two photos from the Grey’s Anatomy makeup trailer where she and Justin showed up for work in buffalo plaid shirts this Tuesday.

On Tuesdays we wear plaid.. @7JustinChambers #GreysAnatomy #makeuptrailer pic.twitter.com/lk9D7t5TYd

— Camilla Luddington (@camilluddington) October 21, 2014

I added a few photos (not the best quality) from the Nexus XIX Training Conference this past Wednesday. As you may recall, Justin was invited as a keynote speaker at the conference hosted by ICAN (Inter-Agency Council on Child Abuse and Neglect) which focused on the topic of “Violence Within the Home and Its Effects on Children”. I heard Justin delivered a great and inspirational speech, but unfortunately there’s no video as far as I’ve seen.

Check out the photos which include Justin’s wife, Keisha (black & white dress), and his childhood crush, actress and author Lindsay Wagner (glasses and a red skirt).

Nexus XIX Training Conference – October 8

Here are a couple of photos with fans who were at the conference. Click on the thumbnails.

 
In an interview with Paste Magazine, Justin’s Grey’s co-star Camilla Luddington had this to say about working with him:

Paste: How is it working with Justin Chambers? Everyone always talks about how funny he is, and we’ve finally seen that playful side come through in Alex’s relationship with Jo.
Luddington: Justin is so fun. He’s so sweet. What I love about him, as an actor, is that he’s down to do whatever. There’s a scene in Season Nine when we have to jump up and do these strange animal noises, and other actors wouldn’t be down to play in those moments. He’s always up for it. It makes my job easier because I don’t feel ridiculous doing it. He’s so playful, and I feel lucky to have him as a love interest, because he’s such a giving actor.

To read the rest of the interview where Camilla talks a bit more about Grey’s Anatomy and her new movie The Pact II, click on the following link: Catching Up with Camilla Luddington

Justin is scheduled to be a keynote speaker at the Nexus XIX Conference tomorrow (Wednesday, October 8) at the Pasadena Convention Center. The NEXUS Conference examines a wide range of issues related to family violence and the relationship between child abuse and domestic violence.

According to the event schedule, Justin will be part of the luncheon presentations taking place from 12:30 p.m. – 2:30 p.m.

Looking forward to the @CountyofLA Nexus Conference keynote's by @opentheheart @7JustinChambers & @TKF_SanDiego Founder Azim Khamisa!

— Crittenton Services (@CrittentonSoCal) October 7, 2014

Bigger fan of @GreysABC now that we know @7JustinChambers taking time to speak @CountyofLA Nexus Conference this Wednesday! #childwelfare

— Crittenton Services (@CrittentonSoCal) October 7, 2014

 
Also, here’s a photo of Justin with Sheila E. on Sunday.

Great day with great peeps! pic.twitter.com/Hzsc9u91JQ

— Matheos (@DJMatheos) October 6, 2014

On Wednesday, Justin shot a short bit for a digital series called “General Hospital Now” that will be going up on ABC.com starting in October. The digital series is hosted by General Hospital star Nancy Lee Grahn. Grey’s Anatomy co-producer Karin Gleason is producing the digital series and she posted two photos of Justin and Nancy.

.@7JustinChambers and the lovely @nancyleegrahn about to tape a bit for Nancy's new digital series #greysanatomy #GH pic.twitter.com/D93huD9d7I

— Karin Gleason (@karingleason) September 30, 2014

Good fun w @7JustinChambers & @NancyLeeGrahn doing a short bit for Nancy's upcoming #GHNow digital show #greysanatomy pic.twitter.com/MoR4S0nBn7

— Karin Gleason (@karingleason) September 30, 2014

 
Lastly, Kelley Sane posted on Instagram a photo from his birthday dinner on Wednesday and thanked Justin and Keisha for it.

&#9733 Justin posted this sweet photo with his 12-year-old son, Jackson, on his Twitter account on Saturday. By the way, he has also answered a lot of fan questions and, unlike Instagram, you can go read through them all.

Loving sunny Cali with my best friend 🙂 pic.twitter.com/3zLJjuAEJt

— Justin Chambers (@7JustinChambers) September 27, 2014

 
&#9733 I added a photo to our gallery of Justin at Freda Payne’s birthday and album (“Come Back To Me Love”) release party on September 19th. Justin’s Grey’s co-star James Pickens Jr. and Quincy Jones are the two men in the photo besides Justin and Freda. Click on the photo for the album.

 
&#9733 We have another interview (thanks Amanda!) from the 54th Monte Carlo Television Festival where Justin talks a bit about the evolution of his character, whether the death of Alex’s father will have a long-term effect on him, what he hopes happens next season, how he sees Grey’s ending and how does he explain the show’s success.