Amy Robach, Lara Spencer. Mediapunch/Shutterstock
Drama behind the scenes? Amy Robach and T.J. Holmes have been briefly benched from GMA3 — and an insider completely tells Us Weekly that Robach thinks her coworker Lara Spencer is behind the removing.
“The bosses have been thrilled and giddy with the scores on Friday, however now Amy and T.J. are out of the blue off the present,” the supply claims. “It’s not a delayed response — one thing occurred and Amy is blaming Lara.”
Robach, 49, and Holmes, 45, made headlines on Wednesday, November 30, when the Every day Mail revealed pictures of the duo — who’re each married to different folks — getting shut throughout a number of outings collectively. Whereas the pair returned to host GMA3: What You Have to Know for the remainder of the week, Us confirmed on Monday, December 5, that they received’t be again for the foreseeable future.
“ABC made the choice after additional particulars got here to mild,” the insider tells Us, including that Robach believes Spencer, 53, is the explanation she and Holmes are briefly off the present. In keeping with the supply, the stress dates again to late 2012, when Robin Roberts took a break from GMA whereas recovering from a bone marrow transplant.
“Lara was furious that Amy was seen by bosses as Robin’s heir-apparent,” the insider tells Us. “It was clear that Amy could be the one to step in. Lara needed the gig and hasn’t ever forgotten it.”
Lara Spencer, Amy Robach. MediaPunch/Shutterstock
Robach joined GMA as a correspondent in 2012 earlier than being promoted to coanchor in March 2014. One month later, Spencer was promoted to cohost of GMA together with Roberts, 62, and George Stephanopoulos.
“A key member of our on-air crew, Lara Spencer, rejoined ABC three years in the past — bringing her type, humor, sunny confidence, great journalism and storytelling to GMA,” learn an April 2014 memo despatched by James Goldston, then-president of ABC Information. “Lara is clearly a necessary ingredient within the success now we have loved and I’m so happy to announce that Lara has been elevated to cohost of this system together with Robin and George.”
On the time, TMZ reported that there was pressure between Robach and Spencer on set, however the duo denied feud hypothesis throughout a lunch date in New York Metropolis. “I do know it’s not as attractive as the opposite story line, however we’ve been mates for a extremely very long time,” Spencer informed the outlet in April 2014. “I feel in case you look again otherwise you’re a viewer and also you watch the present, it’s simply merely not true.”
Whereas Holmes and Robach are off the air, ABC Information journalists Stephanie Ramos and Gio Benitez will probably be filling in for them. Through the Monday episode, Ramos, 40, mentioned that her colleagues “have the day without work.”
