It might be the happiest downside that Bob Iger, newly-reinstated president of ABC’s mum or dad firm Disney, will face as he retakes the reins of the conglomerate and its top-rated money cow “Good Morning America.”
Two of “GMA”‘s most reliable — and, till lately, very married to different individuals — star anchors, Amy Robach and T.J. Holmes, are drawing much more consideration to the No. 1 morning present because of their bombshell secret romance.
Insider say the affair, revealed this previous week in a collection of photographs displaying the pair canoodling in a Lincoln Middle-area bar and at a comfortable rented cabin upstate, is translating into what one supply referred to as “scores gold” for the present.
Phrase is that Robach and Holmes, each 49, who started co-hosting “GMA 3” collectively in 2020, received’t be disciplined for carrying on behind the scenes — at the least up to now. And they don't seem to be planning to finish their relationship any time quickly. TMZ reported Saturday that sources near the couple stated they're planning to proceed with their relationship.
The drama might get messier although. A number of sources informed Web page Six Friday that Holmes — who has been wed to Marilee Fiebig since 2010 — had an alleged three-year affair with a married producer at “GMA,” Natasha Singh starting in 2016.
Holmes and the producer each confided in mutual good friend Robach as they tried to determine the way to depart their spouses.
“Amy was the individual they went to speak about their affair and marriages,” in accordance with one insider.
' class="wp-image-24857965"/>As rumors swirled about Holmes and Robach, one other supply stated, “Marilee by no means thought of Amy as a result of she was targeted on Natasha. She by no means considered [Holmes cheating] with Amy as a result of they had been pals. Amy’s daughter was their daughter’s babysitter.”
Holmes reportedly ended the affair and began working with Fiebig to reconcile their marriage all through the pandemic. Robach remained pals with Singh and it angered Fiebig as a result of “she would see photographs of them on Instagram and she or he didn’t perceive how their good friend and her husband’s co-host might stay pals with the lady who tried to interrupt up their marriage,” the primary supply stated.
All that's apparently prior to now for Holmes and Robach. The 2 got here to work unapologetically final week after the information broke. They omitted any point out of the scandal throughout Thursday and Friday’s reveals — privately proclaiming that the affair started after the 2 shed their respective spouses.
“They’re not ashamed. They’re two consenting adults who ended up loving one another,” one ABC supply informed Web page Six.
In reality, the 2 giggled collectively on set Thursday previous to baking vacation cookies with chef Caroline Schiff, with Robach fortunately asserting, “It’s Friday eve!” Robach seemed carefree when photographed returning to her Manhattan house solo after Friday’s present.
Nonetheless, insiders say there was collateral harm within the type of the spouses left behind. Robach married former “Melrose Place” star Andrew Shue in 2010, the identical 12 months T.J. Holmes tied the knot with immigration lawyer Fiebig.
A staffer at “GMA” informed Web page Six that Holmes and Fiebig had been separated for six months however had been making an attempt to “work issues out” when information of his romance with Robach broke Wednesday.
“She’s devastated. She had no thought,” the supply stated. “They haven’t been collectively in [a while], however they had been making an attempt to work it out.
“They had been simply collectively for T.J.’s birthday,” which was Aug. 19.
The supply notes that whereas Fiebig hasn’t been sporting her wedding ceremony ring, the now-estranged couple was making an attempt to reconcile.
Shue, for his half, wiped Robach off all his social media accounts.
Robach and Holmes reportedly might have been romantically intertwined since at the least March, after they had been coaching for the New York Metropolis marathon. Sources informed The Submit on Thursday that Robach and the “Melrose Place” alum’s divorce is almost finalized.
“He moved out earlier this summer time,” one supply shared. “They’ve consistently had issues over time, and so they lastly broke up.”
Only one 12 months in the past, although, in a joint December 2021 interview with Robach on “The View,” Shue gushed about his spouse and the success of their marriage and mutual step-parenting. The looks was pegged to a kids’s guide they authored, “Higher Collectively.”
“That is our best achievement as a result of it isn't straightforward,” Shue stated on the time about their marriage. “Anyone who’s blended a household is aware of that whenever you’re bringing collectively totally different parenting types it is rather arduous.”
Robach has two daughters, Ava and Analise, with ex-husband Tim McIntosh, whereas Shue shares sons Nate, Aidan, and Wyatt along with his ex-wife, Jennifer Hageney. Shue stated mixing their households was difficult however rewarding.
“I give Amy all of the credit score for actually sticking with it as a result of there have been numerous instances the place I used to be type of the issue in determining the way to create a playbook collectively,” he defined in the course of the interview. “I resisted. It’s powerful to have two playbooks. It's a must to have one playbook. And whenever you’re married for the primary time, it’s apparent you could have one playbook. And Amy has introduced a lot to my boys, self-discipline, and love. It’s actually been a journey.”
Robach was equally rhapsodic about her then-husband in response.
“Andrew’s being very selfless there,” Robach stated. “He introduced a lot love and construction and pleasure and coronary heart to our household as nicely, and so the 2 of us made selections to get on the identical web page. But it surely was not straightforward, and generally it nonetheless isn’t straightforward. It’s not that we’ve figured it out. We’re simply making an attempt to work collectively, that’s the entire level.”
Holmes and Robach have reportedly been very pleasant since he joined the GMA group in 2014. Robach beforehand informed Individuals that she was thrilled when execs determined to pair them on “GMA 3.”
“[They] stated, ‘Hey, we need to carry on a co-anchor. What do you consider T.J. Holmes?’ And I virtually fell out of my chair,” Robach stated.
“My God. You couldn’t have picked a greater individual to ask me what I considered, as a result of we’ve been making an attempt to determine a approach to work collectively for actually the final 5 years.”
Robach additionally detailed to Individuals how she and Shue double-dated within the early years with Holmes and Fiebig.
“The second he began at ABC, I believe we simply clicked,” she stated. “We’ve gone on tons of double dates with our spouses and my daughters babysit his daughters.”
The 2 couples’ closeness is barely paying homage to former CNN head Jeff Zucker’s once-secret affair along with his then-colleague Allison Gollust, a 10-year relationship that started whereas Zucker and his spouse and Gollust and her husband lived in the identical Manhattan house constructing. It led to their respective divorces in addition to their mutual downfall at CNN.
In the meantime, Mika Brzezinski and her now-husband Joe Scarborough, the co-anchors of MSNBC’s “Morning Joe,” reportedly started an affair whereas they had been each married to others however one way or the other escaped scandal.
“Everybody knew, I imply everybody,” a former NBC Information staffer stated of Brzezinski and Scarborough’s initially illicit romance. “However one way or the other it by no means changed into a difficulty.”‘
Robach has expertise weathering storms each on and off digicam. Born in Michigan and raised in Georgia, Robach started working at a neighborhood station in Charleston, SC and moved to WTTG in Washington earlier than methodically transferring up the ladder of cable and community information. A stint at MSNBC in 2003 led to the “Weekend Immediately” anchor job at NBC Information. She left for “Good Morning America” in 2012.
In 2019 she was caught in a sizzling mic second when complaining about how ABC allegedly “quashed” her unique protection of the Jeffrey Epstein intercourse scandal earlier than it exploded years later.
In 2013, she came upon she had Stage 2 most cancers in each breasts and lymph nodes. She underwent a double mastectomy and stated on the time that docs had caught the most cancers.
Robach stated final 12 months that she credited a keto eating regimen and intermittent fasting with sustaining her well being. Her lookalike mom, Joanie, has a weblog dedicated to keto recipes referred to as MyKetoHome that had been impressed by her daughter’s sickness.
As for her present paramour, Holmes, he has all the time sounded assured to powerful out any scandal.
If his affair with Robach doesn’t work out, he in all probability received’t fear about discovering somebody new.
When his “GMA” co-host Sara Haines requested him in 2015 about what he makes use of for pickup strains, Holmes seemed momentarily puzzled.
“I don’t want pickup strains, are you kidding me?” he stated. “I say … ‘Hello.’ That’s my line.”
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