Good Morning America 3 (GMA3) anchors T.J. Holmes and Amy Robach are leaving ABC Information, the community stated on Friday, concluding an almost two-month tabloid spectacle sparked by revelations that the co-hosts have been romantically concerned.
Their departures finish weeks of uncertainty inside ABC about what would turn out to be of the anchors, who have been abruptly taken off the air in early December.
“After a number of productive conversations with Amy Robach and T.J. Holmes about totally different choices, all of us agreed it’s greatest for everybody that they transfer on from ABC Information,” the community stated in a press release. “We acknowledge their expertise and dedication over time and are grateful for his or her contributions.”
In line with NBC information, GMA3 didn’t elaborate on the circumstances of the anchors’ exit.
The departure of the anchors — who till just lately had been thought-about rising stars with the potential to take over the community’s flagship present, GMA— is one other powerful second for ABC Information. Final week, Cecilia Vega, the community’s chief White Home correspondent, introduced that she was leaving for a correspondent function at “60 Minutes” on CBS.
The on-air charisma between Holmes and Robach had been a staple of their early-afternoon discuss present. However their careers have been upended in late November when The Every day Mail reported that the anchors, each of whom have been married, had been having an affair.
Initially, ABC Information took no motion. Holmes and Robach continued their anchoring duties, even alluding to the media curiosity of their relationship whereas on the air, earlier than going public with their relationship.
5 days after that report, Kimberly Godwin, president of GMA3 introduced that she was pulling the anchors off the air. Godwin stated that whereas the anchors’ relationship didn’t quantity to a violation of firm coverage, the episode had turn out to be an “inner and exterior distraction.”
On the time, a consultant for the anchors stated that their relationship had begun a “few months” earlier and that each had separated from their spouses in August. The consultant stated Mr. Holmes and Ms. Robach had not advised anybody at ABC about their relationship “as a result of they have been ready till they each have been divorced.”
GMA3, a syndicated offshoot of Good Morning America, premiered in 2018. Robach, who had been with ABC Information since 2012, and Holmes, there since 2014, teamed up because the present’s co-hosts in 2020.
