The duo launched their new podcast Tuesday by discussing their high-profile exit from ABC News: “We’re the folks who lost the jobs we love because we love each other.”
Executives at the Disney news division — and its corporate parent — hoped to cut recent scrutiny by parting ways with Amy Robach and T.J. Holmes, the co-anchors of early-afternoon program GMA3 who also had a romantic relationship despite being married to other people. On Friday, the two sides broke up, so to speak, with ABC News President Kim Godwin telling staffers she hoped their departure would end a period of “distraction” at the home of Good Morning America and World News Tonight. But Godwin and her team are likely to face a period of rebuilding.
T.J. Holmes and Amy Robach are both out at ABC. Sources connected to the network tell TMZ, that after a marathon mediation session Thursday, ABC and the two GMA3 anchors have severed ties, and both will receive payouts per their contracts.
Gayle King was asked on Thursday’s Watch What Happens Live with Andy Cohen for her thoughts about the situation at ABC’s GMA3, in which co-hosts Amy Robach and T.J. Holmes where at least temporarily pulled from hosting duties after their romantic relationship was made public. “It’s just gotten very messy and very sloppy,” she said.
Networks spend millions trying to conjure the kind of energy the GMA3 anchors Amy Robach and T.J. Holmes brought to the show. But news of their relationship threatens a delicate balance.
Good Morning America anchors Amy Robach and T.J. Holmes reportedly will not anchor their morning show for an unspecified period of time in the wake of their alleged romantic affair going public. ABC News President Kim Godwin reportedly recently told staffers that GMA anchors Amy Robach and TJ Holmes “will be off air while network figures out how to best handle situation,” Joe Flint of the Wall Street Journal tweeted Monday. “Calls it a distraction but not a violation of policies.”
Exclusives
ABC said today it would temporarily suspend its Strahan, Sara and Keke early-afternoon talk show in favor of a news program led by anchor Amy Robach focused on the coronavirus crisis, the latest example of news programming supplanting entertainment and opinion shows as the nation grows more concerned about the contagion’s spread.
CBS News has fired a female staffer believed to have had access to the tape of Amy Robach raging against ABC News,
ABC said Tuesday that a interview 2015 interview with Virginia Roberts never made the air because it lacked sufficient corroborating evidence. Robach said she was “caught in a private moment of frustration.” The episode raised immediate comparisons to reporter Ronan Farrow’s accusations that NBC News discouraged his reporting on Hollywood mogul Harvey Weinstein’s misconduct.
NEW YORK (AP) — Amy Robach of ABC News says she can’t wait to get back to work following her double mastectomy but has more cancer treatments ahead of her. […]
