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Patrick Dempsey and Jillian Dempsey

Patrick Dempsey's Best Love Advice

Grey's Anatomy's Patrick Dempsey gets intimate about his love history and shares his best advice.

Six seasons into Grey's Anatomy and Patrick Dempsey—aka Dr. Derek "McDreamy" Shepherd—still makes fans' hearts skip a little as he performs brain surgery within the walls of the show's Seattle Grace Hospital. The actor, 44, dons a dashing doctor's coat again in the movie Valentine's Day, a comic homage to amore that stars an ensemble cast, including Julia Roberts and Anne Hathaway. Without the stethoscope, though, McDreamy is more McDude, a family man (he and his wife, makeup artist Jillian Dempsey, have a daughter, Talula, eight, and three-year-old twin sons, Darby and Sullivan) with a low-key approach to romance and a serious passion for … auto racing? Luckily, that's only one of the things that rev his engine. Here, he confides a few more.

Two guys with funny mustaches

4 Reasons Women Find Mustaches Sexy

It has been shown that women prefer a little bit of facial hair, but are mustaches the new stubble?

The Telegraph reported that in a study carried out by psychologists at Northumbria University in Britain, women were found to rate men with stubble as, "tough, mature, aggressive, dominant, and masculine – and as the best romantic partners, either for a fling or a long-term relationship."Read: Stubble: The Best of Both Worlds But this study only asked women about men who shave their faces clean of hair (or the ones can't grow any hair to begin with), the rugged man who always has a little bit of stubble and guys who sport full-on beards. It left out one of the most important facial features a man can create, style and show off: the mustache. Given the options the study provided, it's no surprise females preferred men who groom their faces to resemble the hottest TV hunks like Matthew Fox (Jack) and Josh Holloway (Sawyer) from Lost and Patrick Dempsey (McDreamy) from Grey's Anatomy.

Meredith and Derek

MerDer To Finally Tie The Knot

Grey's Anatomy pulls out all the stops, a wedding website even, for the couple's nuptials.

Grey's Anatomy has had its share of engagements, almost-weddings, marriages, divorces, affairs and everything in between, but after the engagement that we'd all been waiting for, a date has finally been set for the wedding we thought would never happen. After all of their hook-ups, break-ups, fights and even a partial-death, Meredith Grey finally has a ring, although it's not yet on her finger (she just carries it around), from Derek Shepherd, and the two will wed on May 14… a Thursday. MerDer, played by Ellen Pompeo and Patrick Dempsey, have a real-life wedding website at theknot.com "set up" by Dr. Izzie Stevens, that is replete with photos, the couple's story, even a gift registry. Show creator Shonda Rhime's said in an interview with USA Today, "I said, 'it should feel like a real wedding website.'"

Grey's Anatomy Recap: Izzie Has Two Boyfriends

Grey's Anatomy Recap: Izzie Has Two Boyfriends

Grey's Anatomy recap: Meredith and Derek are blissful and Izzie tells Alex about Denny.

Grey's Anatomy is back! In the first 2009 episode of TV's relationship soap opera disguised as a medical drama Derek and Meredith are blissful, Izzie tells Alex about Denny, Sloan and Lexie may have a future together and Christina rebuffs Owen.

McDreamy Into Spanking

Patrick Dempsey's got a kinky side.

We never would've expected shmoopy heartthrob Patrick Dempsey (Grey's Anatomy, Made of Honor, Enchanted, etc.) had a kinky side, but it turns out the man they call McDreamy's a little steamier than we thought! Dempsey told a UK paper that spanking spices up his sex life: Romance is an atmosphere, a feeling, a mood, a place, it's in the air. It is the little things - even a spanking every now and then. Wow, who'd have thunk? McDreamy didn't elaborate further, so we'll have to leave it to our dirty little imaginations as to whether he's the spanker ("a top") or the spankee ("a bottom")!