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Unfortunately, the subject line of this post does not refer to great Greek poets, but in fact to a survey done for a leading US entertainment magazine. In this survey, Homer Simpson was been named as the greatest ever character created for TV and film over the last 20 years!! Homer pipped Harry Potter, Buffy the Vampire Slayer and Tony Soprano (The Sopranos) to first place.

The creator of the Simpson’s Matt Groening seems to think that the reason for Homer’s popularity is that people are able to identify with him and relate to Homer because “we’re all secretly propelled by desires we can’t admit to”

The other characters in the top-10 are Rachel from Friends, Johnny Depp’s Edward Scissorhands, Anthony Hopkin’s Hannibal Lecter (Silence of the Lambs), Sarah Jessica Parker’s Carrie Bradshaw (Sex and The City) and the cartoon character Spongebob Squarepants.

There has been a bit of goss doing the rounds that Ellen Pompeo a.k.a Meredith might be following in the footsteps of Katherine Heigl and leaving the set of our beloved Grey’s anatomy.

Pompeo spoke to Extra and said ”I haven’t said I’m moving on, I said that when my contract is up after Season 8 [in two years], I would probably not renew. I think the world has had a lot of Meredith Grey.”

I am not too sure about Grey’s without Meredith…sure there is Little Grey, but really the show was built on Meredith and McDreamy.

Fortunately, we have a while to go before we get to Season 8 and so hopefully someone has thrown enough money at the problem and persuaded her to stick around a bit longer!