Shondaland and theSkimm have teamed up and launched the ‘No Excuses’ campaign design at inspiring millennial women to vote in the midterm elections on Nov. 6th.

According to People:

The 60-second videos — to be released every Tuesday until the election — will feature Grey’s Anatomy and How to Get Away with Murder actors Justin Chambers, Kelly McCreary, Karla Souza, Conrad Ricamora, Kevin McKidd and Aja Naomi King debunking “common excuses’” people use to not vote.

“Millennial women are the demographic most unhappy with the state of our government but, compared to all other demographic groups, they’re also telling us they’re least certain to vote this November,” the companies say in a statement.

Check out the first video of the ‘No Excuses’ campaign featuring Justin below.

★ Last Sunday, Justin attended The Rape Foundation Brunch in Beverly Hills. The annual fundraiser benefits the Rape Treatment Center and Stuart House at Santa Monica-UCLA Medical Center for adult and child victims of sexual assault.

I’ve added photos of Justin at the event to the archive (link is below), including a few where he reunited with his former Grey’s Anatomy castmates Sarah Drew and T.R. Knight who also attended the brunch.

The Rape Foundation Brunch – October 7

 
★ Here are a few videos of Justin at The Rape Foundation Brunch. In the first video, he talks about why he was attending the fundraiser, and the other two videos are of him stopping for photographers and posing for them with Sarah Drew.

★ Continue voting for Justin as The Male TV Star of the 2018 People’s Choice Awards. You can vote 25 times per e-mail address or Facebook account, per category, per day at the PCAs site HERE.

 
★ Camilla Luddington posted this BTS video from the Entertainment Weekly Grey’s Anatomy cover shoot as an Instagram story.

 
★ On Saturday (Sept. 29), Justin attended Kiki Shepard’s 15th Annual Celebrity Bowling Challenge benefiting The KIS Foundation, which raises awareness and improves the social health and quality of life for patients and families living with Sickle Cell Disease. Below are a couple of pics of him at the event held at Pinz Bowling Center in Studio City, CA.

★ The day we’ve been waiting for has finally arrived! The 2-hour season 15 premiere of Grey’s Anatomy is TONIGHT on ABC from 8:00-10:00 p.m.(ET)!😀🍿

 
★ Now for some site news, JCO opened 11 years ago today!🎂🎉 I’ll keep it brief and just give a heartfelt thank you to all who visit the site, and to all who follow JCO on Twitter/Facebook. Maintaining a site and social media accounts is hard work and very time-consuming, so a very special thank you goes out to all who have shown kindness and have sent messages of support and appreciation. It truly means a lot.❤ Here’s to another year!🥂

 
★ To wrap this up, Entertainment Weekly gifted us Grey’s fans with this funny video of the cast recapping the show in 30 seconds.

★ To celebrate Grey’s Anatomy reaching its milestone 15th season and tying E.R. as one of the longest-running hospital dramas on TV, Entertainment Weekly is featuring six special collectors covers with the cast of the show this week (on stands this Friday).

Check out the gorgeous cover Justin shares with costar Camilla Luddington below. The full-sized version can be seen in this album, where I’ll also be adding scans of the magazine when it’s out.

The other covers can be seen HERE. In addition, everyday until the Grey’s premiere on Sept. 27, EW will post more things as part of their special #7DaysofGreys series.

 
★ Along with the covers, EW also posted another photo of Justin and Camilla (can be seen in full size in this album) and there’s a quote from him about shooting the pilot episode of Grey’s Anatomy.
What’s cool about this is that Justin shot the pilot the last week of Sept. 2004, and 14 years later, in the last week of Sept. 2018, he’s on the cover of EW celebrating the show reaching its 15th season milestone.😎 Check out what he said below.

Justin Chambers (Dr. Alex Karev) and Camilla Luddington (Dr. Jo Wilson)

Chambers still remembers how he felt while shooting the Grey’s pilot. “Nerves, definitely nerves,” he recalls. “I was with all these other actors, I didn’t know anybody, and I was hoping the show would be a success and thank God it worked out.”
Luddington, who came much later, spent her first day “geeking out” in Meredith’s house “when I wasn’t supposed to be there. We weren’t even shooting and I just kind of crept on and investigated everything, because I was a fan of the show. So my first memories of being on set was even before we started filming anything and I was sneaking into Meredith’s house.”

 
★ EW posted the following two videos featuring the cast. In this first video, the cast talks about the show’s fans and there is some BTS footage from the cover shoot.

 
★ In this video, the cast has some fun taking EW’s “Which Grey’s Anatomy Character Are you?” quiz. You can take the quiz HERE.

Vacation is over, it’s September and that means the new season of Grey’s Anatomy is quickly approaching. Season 15 will have a two-hour premiere on September 27 at 8 p.m. on ABC (the premiere on Canada’s CTV channel will be on Sept. 26). Here are some photos and news about Justin’s return to work for season 15 of the show.

 
★ On July 28, Grey’s executive producer Debbie Allen hosted a luau-themed party at her home for the cast and crew of the show to kickoff season 15. A couple of photos of Justin at the party (second photo includes Justin’s co-star Kelly McCreary) were posted by Tsehay Driscoll. Click on the photos to see them in full size.

 
★ Camilla Luddington was interviewed by Us Weekly and she gave some tidbits about the beginning of season 15 for Alex and Jo.

“Jo and Alex are on their honeymoon in episode one, and Jo actually gets inspired and believes she may come up with a new medical innovation,” she told Us about season 15 of Grey’s Anatomy. “She feels like the person she would love to pursue with, because she loved doing things with her, is Meredith. So now she has to go back to Seattle and convince them to kind of do this with her.”

Luddington, 34, also added that she’s hoping the honeymoon stage continues with Jo and Alex (Justin Chambers), even when they’re back at work. “They’re affectionate with each other, they’re cheeky with each other, they’re playful. That’s what I love about them. There’s so much love and support there,” she shared. “They’ll be navigating being newlyweds this season.”

 
★ Speaking of Jo and Alex on their honeymoon, Justin and Camilla filmed those scenes with Debbie Allen directing them on location in Santa Monica Beach on August 20. Check out a few BTS photos in the album linked below and a video that was posted on social media:

On location in Santa Monica – August 20, 2018

Here’s a short behind-the-scenes video of the last scene shot for the season 14 finale (ep 14.24 “All of Me”) featuring Justin, Camilla Luddington and Giacomo Gianniotti.