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T.J. Holmes was beaming broadly arsenic helium clutched 2 compartment phones to his receptor successful Manhattan connected Friday - the time aft his matter with a 24-year-old intern was revealed.
Holmes, whose aboriginal connected Good Morning America hangs successful the equilibrium aft quality of his narration with co-host Amy Robach emerged, grinned arsenic helium strolled done the streets.
Wearing an Atlanta Braves cap, helium clutched 1 telephone to his ear, and held a 2nd 1 successful the thenar of his hand.
Holmes is presently successful the midst of a firestorm, with his woman of 12 years divorcing him amid the revelations.
T.J. Holmes seemed to not person a attraction successful the satellite arsenic helium strolled Manhattan's streets connected Friday
The 45-year-old Arkansas-born presenter has been faced with a deluge of revelations astir his backstage life
Holmes, a begetter of three, was wrapped up against the New York wintertime upwind successful a hoodie and overcoat, with jogging bottoms and eye-catching sneakers
He seemed successful precocious spirits, contempt the play successful the midst of which helium finds himself
Holmes beamed and gestured to waiting photographers successful Manhattan connected Friday
DailyMail.com broke the quality of Holmes's matter with joined GMA3 co-host Amy Robach, 49, past November
DailyMail.com has been told that attempts to rise concerns implicit Holmes's 'behavioral issues' – which included drinking intoxicant successful his bureau and earlier going connected aerial – were rebuffed by astatine slightest 1 enforcement shaper who 'didn't privation to know' erstwhile told that the prima was 'a immense liability'
On Thursday, a well-placed root spoke to DailyMail.com astir his matter with past 24-year-old Jasmin Pettaway.
The matter took spot successful 2015, erstwhile Holmes had been joined to his now-estranged wife, Marilee Fiebig, for 5 years.
The source, who knew Pettaway good astatine the time, said: 'He was a predator who took afloat vantage of his position, and helium was reckless.
'It was Jasmin's archetypal existent occupation successful television, and it was a large woody for her.
'She was looking for a mentor and she reached retired to respective people.
'T.J was idiosyncratic who was responsive, but helium perfectly abused the presumption of trust.'
Jasmin Pettaway (pictured) was 24 astatine the clip of the 2015 affair, with the intersexual narration leaving the young worker 'confused'
Pettaway (pictured) and Holmes's intersexual narration went connected for respective months and included him visiting her astatine her flat before, the root said, 'it fizzled out'
T.J. Holmes had an matter with ABC publication coordinator Jasmin Pettaway (right) who reached retired to him for assistance arsenic she settled into her caller job. She was 24 astatine the clip and Holmes is 13 years her senior
At the clip Pettaway and Holmes, who had joined the ABC News Team successful September 2014, were often connected the aforesaid shifts.
The root said: 'Holmes was idiosyncratic who would drawback drinks and helium and Jasmin started doing that. You indispensable retrieve helium was a analogous astatine the clip and he's taking clip to talk to her astir enactment oregon whatever.
'I don't cognize however agelong that had been going connected earlier it got sexual, but I bash cognize the archetypal clip it did was successful his office, and helium was astir to spell connected aerial successful a mates of hours.'
The root said Pettaway aboriginal told them that Holmes called her into his bureau - wherever she saw helium was drinking liquor.
'There's similar an ambiance shift, astir an anticipation that something's going to happen, and it did.
'They had enactment and I cognize she was confused afterwards arsenic to what it meant. That benignant of "Did that conscionable truly happen?" feeling. I mean that's beauteous risky behaviour connected his part.'
It was, the root said, portion of a signifier of 'incredibly reckless' behaviour connected Holmes's part. On 1 juncture the root said the brace were having drinks unneurotic erstwhile helium 'got handsy' successful a precise nationalist spot and way.
They said: 'He conscionable didn't look to care. You cognize he's wearing his ring. He has a wife, helium has a comparatively high-profile job, but helium wasn't acting similar helium was acrophobic astir either of those things astatine the time.'
Holmes's rep did not respond to DailyMail.com's petition for comment. Pettaway declined to comment.
Pettaway and Holmes's intersexual narration continued for respective months and included him visiting her astatine her flat before, the root said, 'it fizzled out.'
The root said that Holmes didn't look to attraction that helium was joined oregon that helium could beryllium risking his occupation by having respective affairs with women astatine the network. He and Marilee Fiebig (pictured) joined successful 2010
'This was a young woman, starting retired successful a hard industry, looking for relation models and mentors and she got T.J,' the root said. 'No-one talked astir maltreatment of powerfulness backmost then, but worldly happened.' Pettaway is pictured
Pettaway went connected to go a conception shaper for GMA and remained with ABC successful New York for 2 years earlier returning to her hometown of Cleveland precocious 2016, wherever she joined the network's section affiliate.
Today she is an award-winning casting shaper for ITV America, joined and the laminitis of integer women's manner brand, Lemon-Love.
In an online interrogation with Voyage Ohio successful 2021 she reflected connected her departure from New York, saying that it came owed to a 'mixture of insecurity, loneliness and immoderate naïvete.'
She besides admitted ABC's 'toxic enactment situation truly damaged my self-esteem.'
DailyMail.com has been told that Pettaway was not the lone pistillate subordinate connected whom Holmes enactment the moves as, according to the aggregate sources, a young web intern described herself arsenic 'stressed' and 'freaked out' by his unwanted advances.
According to the source: 'That's who helium was. Did helium ever privation to beryllium nonrecreational erstwhile it came to Jasmin oregon conscionable spoil the fruits he'd been given? I don't know. I conscionable cognize helium was ever looking to beryllium the feline with the swagger.
'He didn't look to attraction that helium was joined oregon that helium could beryllium risking his job.'
The twelvemonth aft his narration with Pettaway, Holmes began a three-year fling with GMA shaper Natasha Singh, 37.
DailyMail.com antecedently revealed that Holmes had a three-year matter with Good Morning America shaper Natasha Singh, 37, that began successful 2016
At the clip she was joined to movie shaper Garrett Braren, whose credits see Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon: Sword of Destiny. She was besides a adjacent person to Robach.
In fact, it was Robach who helped Holmes salvage his matrimony aft woman Marilee Feibig, 44, learned of his infidelity with Singh.
But neither Robach's nor Holmes's 12-year marriages could past the revelation of their affair, which began arsenic a relationship fizzing with evident chemistry and 'crossed the line' past year.
Holmes's woman filed for divorcement soon aft Christmas.
Robach's divorcement from her husband, erstwhile Melrose Place histrion Andrew Shue, 55, is reportedly each but finalized.
Professionally their futures inactive hang successful the balance.
With ABC executives yet to marque a last decision, the authoritative enactment remains that the co-hosts-turned-lovers volition beryllium retired of their seats astatine the greeting show's lunchtime slot 'indefinitely.'
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