Chaos at ABC over whether or not to fireplace ‘serial cheater’ T.J. Holmes however preserve Amy Robach

One week after taking GMA hosts T.J Holmes and Amy Robach off the air, bosses at ABC are in turmoil, DailyMail.com can reveal

The couple was suspended ‘indefinitely,’ Monday, with Stephanie Ramos, 40, and Gino Benitez, 37, taking their seats within the present’s lunchtime hour, GMA 3 What You Have to Know.

However, in response to well-placed sources, what employees have to know is what bosses plan to do now.

GMA anchor and newsroom doyenne Robin Roberts, 62, is ‘livid’ with the affair which she has slammed as ‘messy’ and ‘tainting the model.’

Now, DailyMail.com has discovered, a annoyed Roberts has taken her considerations to the highest and complained to ABC’s mother or father firm Disney concerning the lackluster response to the scandal.

Roberts instructed Holmes and Robach in no unsure phrases to ‘knock it off’ when she caught wind of the affair a while in the past.

However whereas religious Christian Roberts is looking for motion, prime brass are staring down the barrel of a doable racial firestorm.

ABC executives are actually dealing with a doable racial firestorm in the event that they had been to maintain Amy Robach and hearth her ‘serial cheater’ lover T.J. Holmes, who broke cowl for the primary time since he was taken off the air

Robin Roberts, 62, is ‘livid’ with the affair between Amy Robach and T.J. Holmes which she has slammed as ‘messy’ and ‘tainting the model’

‘Letting the black man go and protecting the white lady? It seems to be just like the worst form of double commonplace and would go away them extensive open to racism allegations,’ a supply stated

A supply defined, ‘There’s been all these tales about T.J being a serial cheater with at the 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 wish to lose her. However think about the doable backlash in the event that they go down that path.

‘Letting the black man go and protecting the white lady? It seems to be just like the worst form of double commonplace and would go away them extensive open to allegations of racism.’

One insider instructed DailyMail.com, ‘Kim Godwin [President of News] is hopeless. She’s simply busy ensuring her greatest pursuits are coated and would not appear to have the ability to come to any choice in any respect. She’s completely unavailable and largely hiding in her workplace.’

Based on one, executives can also be afraid of taking a tough line for the precedent it might set. One stated, ‘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 instructed DailyMail.com that the newsroom was ‘a hotbed’ of indiscretions and gossip. They stated, ‘I’ve actually by no means labored anyplace prefer it.’

It has additionally been identified that, for Disney Chief Government Officer Bob Iger, who was in New York this week, discuss of inter-office relationships might all be a little bit too near residence 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 12 months after divorcing first spouse Susan, 74. 

T.J. Holmes and Amy Robach are seen with ABC President Kim Godwin in an Instagram picture in March. One insider instructed DailyMail.com, ‘Kim Godwin [President of News] is hopeless. She’s simply busy ensuring her greatest pursuits are coated and would not appear to have the ability to come to any choice in any respect. She’s completely unavailable and largely hiding in her workplace’

Holmes broke cowl for the primary time since his suspension, Friday afternoon. Pictured completely by DailyMail.com he was dressed casually in black sweats and a jean jacket and carried a Christmas tree stand

He acknowledged DailyMail.com as he headed into his house constructing in New York’s monetary district however declined to remark

Holmes broke cowl for the primary time since his suspension, Friday afternoon. Pictured completely by DailyMail.com he was dressed casually in black sweats and a jean jacket and carried a Christmas tree stand.

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 12 months after divorcing first spouse 

He smiled and waved, acknowledging DailyMail.com as he headed into his house constructing in New York’s monetary district however declined to remark.

He reduce a distinctly extra chipper determine than his lover Robach, seen a day earlier strolling her goldendoodle, Brody.

Then, an apparently weary Robach instructed DailyMail.com, ‘It is actually form of over.’ It was unclear whether or not she was referring to the furor or the connection that sparked it.

She and Holmes haven’t been seen collectively since they had been taken off the air regardless of early claims to be, ‘overtly relationship’ and decided to ‘develop their relationship.’

It’s greater than every week since DailyMail.com broke the story of Holmes and Robach’s affair, a relationship that left each their marriages in tatters.

Robach, 49, cut up from husband of 12-years, actor Andrew Shue, 55. 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 stunned that Holmes and Robach had been an merchandise. However they had been ‘shocked and dismayed’ on the means it grew to become public and are angered by the community’s failure to adequately reply.

Since they started anchoring GMA 3 in 2020, the 2 hosts have all the time been identified to have an in depth friendship off display screen, with each usually sharing photographs collectively from ABC’s studio on Instagram

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 Holmes had performed a three-year affair with then married GMA producer Natasha Singh, 37 – a bootleg relationship that pre-dated his affair with Robach.

However, sources say, the silence from the highest has been deafening ever since.

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 2020.

In reality, 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.

He instructed 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 every of Robach’s greatest mates – lasted from 2016 and 2019.

Sources instructed 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. She has not commented publicly.