Grey’s Anatomy Star Teases What Comes Next If Jo and the Twins Don’t Make It
Grey's Anatomy star Anthony Hill teases a worst-case scenario: if Jo Wilson’s operation ends in tragedy for her and the twins, Winston Ndugu’s world would implode — especially his bond with Atticus Link Lincoln — with fallout that won’t stop at one relationship.
Grey's Anatomy left us on one of those classic, scream-at-your-TV cliffhangers, and now Anthony Hill (aka Dr. Winston Ndugu) is poking at the anxiety. He’s teasing what happens if Jo Wilson’s emergency operation goes sideways, and yes, the fallout would be brutal. On the flip side, he also has very specific thoughts about what to name one of Jo’s twins if things end well. Because why not add a baby-name debate to a cardiac crisis?
What Hill is actually saying
In a chat with Soaps, Hill made it clear that Winston isn’t just a colleague to Jo and Atticus 'Link' Lincoln — he’s their friend. So if Jo and the babies don’t make it, Winston wouldn’t just lose patients. He’d be losing pieces of his personal life, and the ripple effect would hit the entire hospital — the team dynamic, the day-to-day, the whole vibe. Basically: it would be a gut punch on every level.
He also wandered into lighter territory: if one of the twins gets named after him in a happy-ending scenario, he does not want a little 'Winston' running around Grey Sloan.
'That’s too on the nose. It has to be his middle name.'
There’s just one tiny snag: he’s not totally sure what Winston’s middle name is. Still, he’s adamant the writers should make it happen. A little behind-the-scenes-ish tidbit, but charmingly specific.
Where the fall finale left us
- Jo went in for a routine checkup with Link by her side and suddenly had shortness of breath.
- Diagnosis: peripartum cardiomyopathy — pregnancy-related heart failure. At first, not catastrophic.
- Winston laid out the plan: medication or a heart pump should keep things under control.
- Then it all turned fast: the meds didn’t work, and the rapid OR procedure to insert a pump into Jo’s heart also failed.
- Jo’s vitals dropped. The twins’ vitals dropped. Everything went red-alert.
- Winston did something he hasn’t done since medical school: he performed a C-section.
The wait
We find out if Winston’s high-wire move worked — and whether Jo and the twins pull through — when Grey’s Anatomy returns on January 8, 2026.