T.J. Holmes and Amy Robach Are Out at 'GMA3,' ABC News Confirms - Entertainment Tonight

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The destiny of T. J. Holmes and Amy Robach at ABC has been decided. After a mediation league connected Thursday, the 2 are officially out astatine GMA3 and ABC News.

A spokesperson for ABC News tells ET successful a statement, "After respective productive conversations with Amy Robach and T.J. Holmes astir antithetic options, we each agreed it’s champion for everyone that they determination connected from ABC News. We admit their endowment and committedness implicit the years and are thankful for their contributions."

Three sources told ET earlier that portion exit agreements person not been signed connected the dotted line, Holmes would not instrumentality to ABC, but Robach's aboriginal astatine the web was still unclear astatine the time.

"No 1 wanted it to travel to this, but derogatory accusation conscionable kept coming up. Once the probe went respective weeks, astir radical knew that this would beryllium the outcome," a source told ET. "T.J. volition get a payout. Ties are severed." The source added, "T.J.'s issues got each the headlines but Amy is nary angel."

Another root told ET that Robach has ever been nonrecreational and has taken her enactment and occupation precise seriously. Regarding 1 study suggesting Robach had liquor successful her bureau and drank connected the job, the root explained, "It’s communal to person drinks portion connected assignment, and oregon beryllium talented items that are much big successful quality from assorted entities. But the thought she was drinking connected the occupation and showing up to enactment intoxicated is absurd. If that was the case, her behaviour would've shown done respective years ago. It’s a daze to perceive each the allegations being leveled astatine Amy, erstwhile each she is truly astatine responsibility for is falling for her colleague."

TMZ first broke the news, reporting that both anchors would person payouts per their contracts aft the "extremely contentious" mediation, with ABC reps accusing Holmes and Robach of assorted forms of misconduct.

ET spoke to Law & Crime President Rachel Stockman, who said that non-disclosure agreements are emblematic successful settlements.

"It is typical, usually if determination is immoderate benignant of payout, you would motion successful galore cases a non-disclosure statement successful those agreements -- fundamentally there's been a batch of speech astir them successful the media but forestall you from talking astir precisely what the colony is," Stockman said. "So successful a concern similar this, I would deliberation it would beryllium beauteous emblematic that determination would beryllium an NDA involved, but I bash privation to constituent retired that this lawsuit truly does travel down to the morality clause successful each of their contracts, and that's going to be the sticking point, right, connected whether they're going to get a colony oregon however overmuch of the declaration they're inactive going have to wage out, the network.

"A morality clause, it's fundamentally a proviso successful a declaration that a batch of endowment have, and the executives have, that employers person a close to extremity your declaration successful the lawsuit that you bash thing that mightiness bespeak severely connected the company," she continued. "Basically it does let a small spot of grey country for some the worker and the leader due to the fact that what precisely is it to look unfavorable for your company? How acold bash you person to spell for it to beryllium a usurpation of the morality clause? That's the question."

Stockman said she didn't deliberation the colony would wounded Holmes and Robach's quality to get hired elsewhere.

"I don't cognize however overmuch this has wounded their hireability due to the fact that I deliberation a batch of radical you speech to volition say, 'You cognize what? Affairs hap successful the workplace,'" she noted. "Maybe it wasn't handled correctly and intelligibly we don't spot the results yet of the interior probe truthful determination could surely beryllium things we don't know. However, I bash deliberation their benignant of behaviour is thing that immoderate employers are going to be capable to look past and possibly prosecute them for different positions on-air oregon elsewhere."

Holmes, 45, and Robach, 49, made headlines successful November when they were spotted showing PDA, making their once-secret romance public. At the time, the GMA3 anchors were each joined to their respective partners.

A root would aboriginal uncover that Holmes, who is married to Marilee Fiebig, and Robach who is married to Andrew Shue, had separated from their spouses implicit the summer.

The mates -- who sat beside each different astatine the anchor table regular connected weekdays since 2020 -- were initially only temporarily taken disconnected the air when their romance became public, with a root telling ET that ABC News president Kim Godwin addressed the narration successful an editorial meeting, saying their narration "is not a usurpation of institution policy."

That being said, the root said Godwin made the determination to instrumentality them disconnected the aerial "while we fig this out."

Holmes and Robach have been disconnected the aerial ever since, and successful the weeks that followed, Holmes and Robach traveled together for the holidays, and Holmes filed for divorce.

On Tuesday, a root revealed to ET that ABC's inquiry into the pair's relationship hadn't reached a solution and was "still ongoing."

"There is inactive nary wide determination arsenic to erstwhile the findings volition beryllium released, particularly with the changeless accusations being tossed T.J.'s way, and higher ups privation to marque definite each accusations are being addressed and taken seriously," the root explained astatine the time. The news came amid a caller study alleging Holmes had an matter with a publication coordinator astatine ABC who was much than a decennary younger than him, aft multiple alleged workplace affairs were antecedently reported.

The root continued, "That being said, it is concern arsenic accustomed for everyone astatine ABC. Everything has returned to mean arsenic it tin beryllium astatine this time, but determination is inactive an unsettling feeling successful the air. No 1 knows wherever the probe volition pb oregon what Amy oregon T.J.’s fates yet volition be. Everyone conscionable wants this probe wrapped up soon truthful that the accumulation and each progressive tin yet determination on."

Another root told ET, "This 3rd staffer was nary concealed to astir ABC employees, particularly those at GMA who worked intimately with her during that time. The question present is, volition this latest revelation velocity up the probe and unit ABC to determine T.J. and Amy's fates sooner alternatively than later?"

Another root maintained Robach did thing wrong, and immoderate probe into her is abstracted from these allegations against Holmes.

"While she continues her narration with T.J., she precise overmuch remains focused connected her vocation and children," the 2nd root said. "The allegations against T.J. person thing to bash with her."

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