ABC News boss confirms 'GMA3' anchors are subject to internal probe after being pulled from air - CNN

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“GMA3” co-anchors T.J. Holmes and Amy Robach volition “remain off-air pending the completion of an interior review,” ABC News President Kim Godwin disclosed to web employees successful a memo Monday morning.

The memo is the archetypal clip Godwin has acknowledged to the institution the beingness of a ceremonial interior probe targeting the hosts of the channel’s greeting amusement aft photos surfaced of the brace engaged successful an evident romanticist relationship. Godwin’s enactment did not specify what the probe is looking at.

CNN reported past week that the network’s ineligible section was conducting a review, quality first broken by Semafor.

A idiosyncratic acquainted with the substance told CNN that the probe focuses, successful part, connected whether the company’s morality rules mightiness person been violated. Hosts and correspondents astatine quality networks are mostly taxable to morality clauses that forbid them from behaving successful a mode that whitethorn origin harm to the estimation of the company.

Godwin archetypal said past Monday that Holmes and Robach had been taken disconnected of the aerial pursuing the nationalist disclosure of their romanticist relationship. At the time, she referred to the substance arsenic an “internal and outer distraction” and requested staffers not “gossip” astir the substance portion astatine work.

In her latest memo, Godwin again acknowledged the “continuing coverage” of the substance “can beryllium distracting.”

Godwin said a rotating formed of hosts volition proceed to capable successful for Robach and Holmes connected the program.

People acquainted with the substance antecedently told CNN that erstwhile the Daily Mail archetypal reached retired to ABC News for remark astir the narration betwixt Robach and Holmes, a amazed web spokesperson tried to find whether the allegation was true. The spokesperson contacted Holmes, who poured acold h2o connected the tabloid’s reporting.

That resulted successful the spokesperson trying to propulsion backmost against the outlet’s reporting. The Daily Mail wasn’t deterred and published its explosive story. When ABC representatives aboriginal saw the images included successful the Daily Mail’s story, they were taken aback, the radical acquainted with the substance said.

ABC News declined to supply a remark connected the matter.

Following reports of the relationship, Robach and Holmes continued to anchor the program. But the brace person been disconnected the aerial since Dec. 5.