TJ Holmes puts protective arm around Amy Robach at Atlanta airport - Daily Mail

Smiling and chatting co-hosts and lovers TJ Holmes and Amy Robach touched down astatine the airdrome successful Atlanta connected Monday morning, acceptable to walk an intimate New Year's together.

Seen successful these exclusive pictures obtained by DailyMail.com the couple, whose careers bent successful the balance since their matter was outed past month, were affectionate and astatine easiness arsenic they deboarded a greeting formation from New York.

DailyMail.com has been told that they are readying to walk New Year's unneurotic successful Georgia, and they seemed gladsome to person near New York City down arsenic they relaxed successful each other's institution this morning.

Dressed casually, astatine 1 constituent Holmes, 45, enactment a protective limb astir Robach, 49, arsenic they navigated their mode done the engaged Atlanta terminal.

ABC has yet to marque a last determination connected whether either oregon some volition instrumentality to their lunchtime amusement since they were suspended 'indefinitely' pursuing the revelation that their well-publicized relationship and on-screen chemistry had 'crossed the line.'

And arsenic the brace hole to measurement into 2023 together, they whitethorn respire a suspiration of alleviation to permission down a twelvemonth successful which their matter has near some of their 12-year marriages successful tatters and heading to divorce.

Holmes has a location successful Atlanta wherever the mates had planned to walk Christmas. It is not known whether those plans were derailed by the weaponry cyclone that grounded thousands of flights oregon the whirlwind of ungraded successful which they are embroiled.

Certainly, the mates initially kept their region successful the contiguous aftermath of the communicative breaking with sources questioning whether the narration could past the onslaught of attention.

But, conscionable days earlier Christmas, they seemed incapable to support distant from each different arsenic they enjoyed a debased cardinal luncheon astatine the Capitale Grill adjacent Holmes’s flat successful the Financial District.

Robach had a crockery and solid of achromatic vino portion Holmes enjoyed a steak and a solid of reddish before, seemingly buoyed by the vino and conversation, the loved up brace made the abbreviated locomotion backmost to his apartment. 

The giddiness of their earlier liaisons, whether flirting successful midtown bars oregon holding hands successful the backmost of taxis, was lacking arsenic they walked side-by-side but not touching.

But it was a antithetic communicative arsenic they emerged from the edifice smiling and tucked into each other. 

Both Holmes and Robach person been joined to their respective spouses, Marilee Fiebig and Andrew Shue, since 2010. Both couples are said to person divided up successful August this twelvemonth aft learning of the co-hosts' romance. 

At archetypal Robach and Holmes seemed determined to brazen it retired – with T.J. sparking disbelief erstwhile helium appeared alongside Robach and made airy of the ungraded aft their narration became public.

Then, speaking on Friday December 2 he joked that it had been 'a large week' and that helium wished it would 'just support going.' 

Their adjacent determination was to assertion that they were, 'openly dating' and talk astir 'growing their relationship.'

When Holmes was archetypal approached for remark by DailyMail.com, his knee-jerk absorption was a vocation redeeming effort to 'adamantly deny' the narration existed astatine all.

Sources told DailyMail.com that portion the 2 person accepted the destiny of their marriages, they don't privation to 'jeopardize their futures with the web immoderate much than they already have.' 

ABC News President Kim Godwin started earlier this period by issuing a memo to each unit successful an evident effort to tamp down bureau speculation and gossip implicit what she referred to euphemistically arsenic the 'on-going substance involving GMA 3 anchors T.J. Holmes and Amy Robach.'

She wrote: 'I recognize that the continuing sum tin beryllium distracting from the incredibly important enactment our squad does present astatine ABC News.' 

She informed staff, 'Amy and T.J. volition stay off-air pending the completion of an interior review, and determination volition beryllium a rotation of anchors astatine GMA3 for the clip being.'

And portion Godwin seems astatine pains to task an representation of 'business arsenic usual,' insiders accidental that Holmes and Robach are some keenly invested successful salvaging their ain careers.

Both were viewed arsenic rising stars wrong the ABC firmament. 

Holmes joined the web successful September 2014 and became imperishable anchor connected World News Now wrong 3 months arsenic good arsenic a analogous for GMA.

Robach joined the web 2 years earlier, joining GMA arsenic a analogous earlier becoming the show's quality anchor successful 2014.