They have not been seen collectively since they had been taken off the air final Monday after they had been suspended ‘indefinitely,’ one week after information of their affair broke.
Now, DailyMail.com can reveal, sources near GMA co-hosts T.J. Holmes, 45, and Amy Robach, 49, are casting doubt on whether or not the connection can climate this storm.
In accordance with one insider, ‘They would not dare be caught collectively now, not whereas ABC is making a choice.
‘Their marriages are over, however they’ve youngsters to consider they usually do not need to jeopardize their futures with the community any greater than they have already got.’
GMA3 co-anchors and lovers Amy Robach and T.J. Holmes have been preserving their distance whereas ABC carries out an inside probe into their affair. The 49-year-old was seen strolling alone in Manhattan on Monday afternoon
Holmes broke cowl for the primary time since his suspension, final Friday afternoon. Pictured solely by DailyMail.com he was dressed casually in black sweats and a jean jacket and carried a Christmas tree stand
Up till their affair was uncovered in late November, the 2 had been caught sneaking round city, assembly up for flirty drinks in midtown bars, holding fingers in taxis and taking weekend journeys
At first the couple appeared decided to brazen it out – with Holmes sparking disbelief when he appeared alongside Robach and made gentle of the scandal two days after their relationship grew to become public.
Talking on the finish of that first week he joked: ‘ it is too unhealthy it is Friday, it has been an awesome week’ – one, he mentioned, he wished would simply ‘carry on going.’
Robach hit again: ‘Converse for your self.’
Their subsequent transfer was to assert that they had been, ‘brazenly relationship’ and discuss, ‘rising their relationship.’
However since then, there was little proof of any united entrance from the couple who, as a substitute, more and more appear to be dealing with down the firestorm from their separate foxholes.
Chatting with DailyMail.com final week, a weary-looking Robach mentioned: ‘It is type of over now,’ as she walked her golden doodle, Brody.
Holmes has made no public remark.
Amy Robach and T.J. Holmes lastly alluded to their secret love affair on air for the primary time by awkwardly laughing off the scandal as they closed out the week
In a memo to employees this morning, ABC Information President Kim Godwin confirmed that each hosts would stay off-air till the assessment is full
Eight days after information of her affair with GMA co-host T.J. Holmes broke, Amy Robach informed DailyMail.com ‘It is form of over now’
It was all very completely different simply two weeks in the past after they had been sneaking round city, assembly up for flirty drinks in midtown bars, holding fingers in taxis and taking off for a weekend upstate.
Then, they had been hardly ever out of one another’s firm. Now, they’re by no means in it.
And the reality is that when Holmes was first approached for remark by DailyMail.com, his knee-jerk response was a profession saving try and ‘adamantly deny’ the connection existed in any respect.
ABC Information President Kim Godwin began this week by issuing a memo to all employees in an obvious try and tamp down workplace hypothesis and gossip over what she referred to euphemistically because the ‘on-going matter involving GMA 3 anchors T.J. Holmes and Amy Robach.’
She wrote: ‘I perceive that the persevering with protection will be distracting from the extremely vital work our crew does right here at ABC Information.’
She knowledgeable employees, ‘Amy and T.J. will stay off-air pending the completion of an inside assessment, and there can be a rotation of anchors at GMA3 in the intervening time.’
And whereas Godwin appears at pains to challenge a picture of ‘enterprise as standard,’ insiders say that Holmes and Robach are each keenly invested in salvaging their very own careers.
Each had been seen as rising stars throughout the ABC firmament.
Holmes joined the community in September 2014 and had develop into everlasting anchor on World New Now inside three months in addition to a correspondent for GMA.
Robach joined the community two years earlier becoming a member of GMA as a correspondent earlier than changing into the present’s information anchor in 2014.
Each Holmes and Robach had been a part of the GMA crew when the present received a Daytime Emmy Award for Excellent Morning Program in 2015.
Holmes on Friday acknowledged DailyMail.com as he headed into his house constructing in New York’s monetary district however declined to remark
T.J. Holmes and Amy Robach are seen with ABC President Kim Godwin in an Instagram photograph in March
Each Holmes and Robach have been married to their respective spouses, Marilee Fiebig and Andrew Shue, since 2010. Each {couples} are mentioned to have break up up in August this yr after studying of the co-hosts’ romance
Three years later Robach was named co-host of 20/20 alongside David Muir and two years later, in 2020, she and Holmes had been put in as co-anchors of GMA3: What You Have to Know, the place they traded on their simple chemistry and a detailed friendship of which they made no secret.
Simply final yr, Robach appeared on the present together with her now estranged husband, actor Andrew Shue, 55, to advertise a youngsters’s e book the couple had co-authored about mixing their households.
Each Shue and Robach had been married earlier than, with Robach having two daughters from her first marriage and Shue three sons from his earlier union.
In a love-in that now makes for excruciating viewing, Holmes interviewed the pair about their love story.
He referred to Shue as one in all his ‘dearest buddies’ and ‘my man’ a number of occasions and boasted that he had ‘promised to ship’ a particular visitor.
In the meantime Robach appeared uncomfortable following a quick video wherein the couple recounted how they’d been arrange at a e book social gathering the place they ended up ‘nostril to nostril’ evaluating tales and images of their youngsters.
They met the next day, acquired engaged 5 months later and married inside ten.
Holmes could possibly be heard exclaiming, ‘Yuck!’ because the saccharine video ended whereas Robach joked awkwardly, ‘Does anybody want an insulin shot.’
And whereas Holmes and Robach maintain their breath high brass are wrestling with the thorny situation of optics and potential allegations of racial discrimination with only one misstep.
ABC Nationwide Correspondent Stephanie Ramos and Transportation Correspondent Gio Benitez hosted GMA3 final Monday afternoon and brushed over the PR nightmare. The alternative anchors kicked off the present telling viewers, ‘Amy Robach and T.J. Holmes have the break day’
T.J. Holmes and Amy Robach haven’t been on the display since December 2
A supply defined: ‘There’s been all these tales about T.J. being a serial cheater with at the very least one different affair and hints that there are extra.
‘However how can they let him go and preserve Amy? They love her they usually do not need to lose her. However think about the potential backlash in the event that they go down that path.
‘Letting the black man go and preserving the white lady? It appears to be like just like the worst type of double customary and would depart them extensive open to allegations of racism.’
Disney Chief Government Officer Bob Iger was President of ABC when he met his spouse, Willow Bay, a GMA presenter whom he married in 1995, only one yr after divorcing first spouse
In accordance with one supply, executives could also be afraid of taking a tough line for the precedent it might set.
They mentioned: ‘If Amy and T.J are punished for his or her affair they will should deliver a jail bus to the studios to ship out all the different {couples} who’re at it at ABC!’
Certainly, one former ABC producer informed DailyMail.com that the newsroom was ‘a hotbed’ of indiscretions and gossip.
‘I’ve actually by no means labored wherever prefer it,’ they mentioned.
It has additionally been identified that, for Disney Chief Government Officer Bob Iger, who was in New York this week, speak of inter-office relationships might all be a little bit too near dwelling for consolation.
Iger, 71, was President of ABC when he met his spouse, Willow Bay, 58, a GMA presenter whom he married in 1995, only one yr after divorcing first spouse Susan, 74.
It’s two weeks since DailyMail.com broke the story of Holmes and Robach’s affair, a relationship that left each their marriages in tatters.
Robach, 49, break up from husband of 12-years and Holmes, 45, has been kicked to the curb by long-suffering spouse lawyer Marilee Fiebig, 44, to whom he was additionally married for 12 years.
Behind the scenes, ABC insiders have admitted they weren’t shocked that Holmes and Robach had been an merchandise.
However they had been ‘shocked and dismayed’ on the method it grew to become public and are angered by the community’s lackluster response.
Because it stands the community appears caught, with insiders telling DailyMail.com that employees are confused and at nighttime since Godwin made the choice to take away Holmes and Robach from the air.
She made the decision after information broke that he had performed a three-year affair with then married GMA producer Natasha Singh in a bootleg relationship that pre-dated his affair with Robach.
Rumors that Holmes and Robach had been having an affair had began on the community lengthy earlier than the pair started co-anchoring GMA 3.
In truth, in 2017 Holmes went to ABC Information executives to guarantee them that his relationship with Robach was purely platonic after studying that the hallways had been buzzing with rumors of an affair.
Unique DailyMail.com images confirmed the 2 had been sneaking round city and visiting one another in plain sight
The 2 additionally took a romantic weekend journey Upstate the place Holmes was seen giving Robach a cheeky squeeze within the butt as she packed up her automotive
He informed bosses these had been ‘completely not true.’
Because it seems, Holmes was having an affair on the time, simply not with Robach.
His affair with GMA producer Singh – one in all Robach’s finest buddies – lasted from 2016 and 2019.
Sources informed Web page Six that Singh was very a lot in love with Holmes, even giving him a key to her house when she moved from LA, which is the place she was primarily based when the connection started, to New York.
In accordance with a supply Robach was the individual in whom each Singh, who was additionally married on the time, and Holmes confided.
The affair ended when Fiebig found overly private emails exchanged between the couple.
Web page Six reported that when the rumors began swirling of one other infidelity Fiebig by no means dreamt that the most recent object of her husband’s affections was Robach.
Robach and her husband socialized with Fiebig and Holmes whereas, based on Web page Six, Robach’s daughter babysat Fiebig and Holmes’s little woman.
It wasn’t till the summer time that she grew suspicious of the closeness of Holmes and Robach’s ‘friendship,’ and each marriages crumbled in August.
