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Angry 'Grey's' fan petitions to bring McDreamy back to life

Also in Tattle: Teen’s mom in the Pink, Stephen Hawking weighs in on One Direction and more

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Having never actually seen "Grey's Anatomy," Tattle wasn't as shaken up by the (spoiler alert!) tragic, surprise death of Dr. Derek "McDreamy" Shepherd (Patrick Dempsey) as people who, perhaps, watch the show.

Then again, we weren't particularly shocked that Bruce Jenner is transitioning to womanhood.

But People.com reports that "Grey's" fan Courtney Williams is so distraught that McDreamy is McDead that she's started a Change.org petition directed at Shonda Rhimes, ABC and Dempsey, requesting his return to the living and the show.

(Tattle does acknowledge we're still waiting for Dr. Mark Greene, of "E.R.," to beat his brain tumor.)

"This is important because you cannot have people invest a decade into a character and then you just terminate them like that," Williams claims in her petition. "You have people out here donating blood and organs trying to save lives, wanting to become doctors and all from committing to this television show . . . just to let us down like this. You've destroyed us."

"Destroyed us"?

It's a TV show.

Although, if Change.org had existed when Bambi's mother was killed, the hunter would have missed.

Williams is even ticked about the way McDreamy was treated on the way out: "Because of the negligent hospital he can't even donate his organs and live on in other characters!"

"People are not sleeping nor eating because of this tragic turn of events," Williams adds, and suggests that the episode should be a dream or hallucination.

Maybe, in a really big twist, it was a dream of Katherine Heigl's.

Williams also mentions the possibility of legal action, but that's just nutty - unlike not eating or sleeping because a TV character is killed off.

A Pink suit

A mom's decision to take her 11-year-old daughter to a Pink concert has a New Jersey judge saying, "So What?"

The judge says the concert trip isn't evidence of bad parenting.

Tattle thinks it may in fact be evidence of good parenting.

NJ.com reports that the girl's parents are divorced, and her father accused his ex-wife of abusing her parental discretion by taking their daughter to see Pink at the Prudential Center in Newark.

But state Superior Court Judge Lawrence Jones rejected the complaint in a 37-page decision that was a little bit rock 'n' roll and a commentary on the increasing use of judges as referees for warring divorced parents.

"When all the smoke from the custody litigation clears, it will be self-evident that all which happened here is that a young girl went to her first rock concert with her mother and had a really great time," the judge wrote in his decision, which quoted the lyrics from Pink's songs "The Great Escape" and "Perfect" as examples of messages for adolescents.

This case got a 37-page decision?

This was a bad concert to go to.

A man scammed a South Korean steel company out of $375,000 by claiming that he worked with a Japanese talent agency that could help the company book a show by Pharrell Williams, FBI agents in Pennsylvania said.

Sigismond Segbefia, of Silver Spring, Md., faces multiple charges, including wire fraud, bank fraud and identity theft. He is also accused of stealing the identity of a western Pennsylvania postal worker and using it to bilk more than $445,000 from women he met on dating sites.

* In other concert news, CNN reports that gunshots were fired at Lil Wayne's tour buses early yesterday on Interstate 285 near Atlanta.

No one was injured in the shooting, and no arrests had been made. Witnesses said the shots came from a "Corvette-style vehicle" and an SUV.

TATTBITS

* In celebration of the DVD launch of "Selma," Paramount Home Media announced that every high school in the U.S. will receive a copy of the DVD free of charge. In addition, teachers can receive free study guides to help them discuss the events in the film.

* Thanks to hologram technology, physicist Stephen Hawking was able to answer questions at the Sydney Opera House, in Australia, on Saturday night.

After the yada yada yada about the future of the planet, etc., etonline.com reports, the questions got serious: "What do you think is the cosmological effect of Zayn leaving One Direction and consequently breaking the hearts of millions of teenage girls across the world?" someone asked.

Hawking's response, per BuzzFeed: "Finally, a question about something important."

"My advice to any heartbroken young girl is to pay close attention to the study of theoretical physics. Because one day there may well be proof of multiple universes.

"It would not be beyond the realms of possibility that somewhere outside of our own universe lies another different universe. . . . And in that universe, Zayn is still in One Direction."

"This girl may like to know that in another possible universe," he added, "she and Zayn are happily married."

Awww . . . And Dr. McDreamy is still on "Grey's Anatomy."

- Daily News wire services

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