MAN’S BEST FRIEND-
Actor And Pup Share A Love Of Steak And Being On Camera
by Julia Szabo (Source)
December 30, 2007

Fans of “Grey's Anatomy" know Jeffrey Dean Morgan as
heart-transplant patient Denny Duquette, who also stole
Izzy (Katherine Heigl)'s heart. Now starring in “P.S. I
Love You," the 6-foot-2, dark-haired hunk of an actor
plays Hilary Swank's love interest, Irishman William Gallagher. Upon meeting him, Swank's character Holly
blurts out, “You're beautiful!"

That's pretty much the assessment of women everywhere,
including “Grey's" creator Shonda Rhimes, who calls
Morgan her muse. In fact, she's writing a TV treatment
just for him.

But the love of Morgan's life has four legs: She's a 9-year-
old Rottweiler mix named Bisou, French slang for kiss.
“She's pretty awesome," Morgan says of the dog he
rescued as a 2-day-old pup.

“I was walking on the boardwalk in Venice, Calif., and these kids were selling
puppies in a cardboard box," he recalls. “There was this little runt, maybe four
inches long, so I took her home and bottle-fed her. She got her name because she
couldn't open her eyes yet and kind of kissed her way around."

That little pup grew up to be a healthy 60 pounds, partly because Morgan loves to
cook, and he and Bisou share steak “at least once a week. She likes it medium rare,
just like her dad."

Bisou shares another one of her pop's interests: being on camera. She has a canine
cameo in Morgan's next film, “The Accidental Husband," co-starring Uma Thurman.
“We were shooting here in New York, and I had Bisou off-leash," Morgan says. “She
came running up behind me like a crazy dog." Bisou's improv impressed dog-lover
Griffin Dunne, the movie's director, who kept it in.

“Bisou's become quite accustomed to being on sets," Morgan adds. “The first thing
she figures out is the location of the food truck. If she ever goes missing, she turns
up there, doing her ‘I haven't eaten in 100 years' thing."

To keep in her fit, Morgan has a walker to take Bisou on long daily hikes. Now, he
reports, “Bisou is probably in the best shape of her life, plus she's entertained while
I'm on set for 20 hours at a time. She's a little celebrity," he concludes. “I get the
doggie life, and she's living the fast life!"

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