ABC News pulls hosts TJ Holmes and Amy Robach off air after romance revealed - The Guardian

Two TV anchors moving for ABC News successful the US person been pulled from aerial aft their workplace romance came to light, amid a tempest of nationalist gossip and tabloid coverage.

TJ Holmes and Amy Robach, who person worked arsenic hosts connected Good Morning America spinoff talkshow GMA3 since 2020, were revealed to beryllium successful a narration past week aft paparazzi photos of the brace were published online. Both Holmes and Robach are married, but aft the photos were published a typical for the brace said they had some separated from their spouses and the narration lone began recently.

During an editorial telephone connected Monday, Kim Godwin, the president of ABC News, announced that Holmes and Robach would temporarily beryllium pulled from GMA3.

“I’m going to speech astir thing that has go an interior and an outer distraction: the narration betwixt 2 of our colleagues,” Godwin said, according to sources connected the call. “And so, I privation to accidental that portion that narration is not a usurpation of institution policy, I person truly taken the past fewer days to deliberation astir and enactment done what I deliberation is champion for the ABC News organisation. And so, for now, I americium going to instrumentality Amy and TJ disconnected the air, portion we fig this out.

“These decisions are not easy, they are not knee-jerk, but they are indispensable for the marque and for our precedence which, you guys know, are each of america — the radical present astatine ABC,” she added, asking unit to “stop the whispering successful the hallways” astir the relationship.

“We can’t run with gossip, and speculation and rumours,” she said. “We request to enactment focused connected the work.”

Holmes and Robach’s narration was revealed aft paparazzi shots of the brace unneurotic connected abrogation were published online.

Amid a tempest of tabloid sum and societal media furore, a typical for Holmes and Robach said: “They had been adjacent friends for galore years, but this narration started implicit the past fewer months, aft they separated from their respective spouses successful August. They had not told anyone, adjacent astatine ABC, due to the fact that they were waiting until they some were divorced.”

Holmes and Robach hosted 2 episodes of GMA3 aft their narration came to light.

“It’s excessively atrocious it’s Friday. It’s been a large week. I conscionable privation this 1 to support going and going and going. Just enjoying it … Take it each in,” Holmes said on-air connected Friday.

“Speak for yourself,” Robach replied.

On Monday, the 2 were replaced by Stephanie Ramos and Gio Benitez, who volition proceed to capable successful for the brace portion ABC News settles the matter.