Morning present insanity! Gayle King shared her two cents on how ABC dealt with Amy Robach and T.J. Holmes‘ relationship drama — and he or she didn’t maintain again.
The 67-year-old information anchor weighed in on the “sloppy” GMA3 controversy throughout the Thursday, December 8, episode of Watch What Occurs Stay With Andy Cohen. “At first I really thought, ‘Good on Good Morning America. They’re saying they’re not taking them off the air. It’s two consenting adults,’” King advised host Andy Cohen. “However then the extra you learn, it’s simply very messy.”
Robach, 49, and Holmes, 45, made headlines on November 30 when the Each day Mail revealed intimate photographs of the coanchors — who’ve every been married to different folks since 2010. The twosome had been caught getting cozy at a New York Metropolis bar and holding palms in a car. One other picture confirmed Holmes inserting his hand on the Michigan native’s bottom exterior of a cabin in upstate New York.
Gayle King attends The Root 100 Gala on December 8, 2022 in New York Metropolis. Megan Cencula/Shutterstock
For King, the state of affairs will get messier when the pair’s households come into play. “I feel, to me, it’s only a unhappy state of affairs since you’ve received children concerned, you’ve received households concerned, and I maintain occupied with that,” she stated on Thursday. “I’m very involved about that.”
The previous MSNBC correspondent shares daughters Ava and Annalise with ex-husband Tim McIntosh. After marrying Andrew Shue in 2010, she grew to become stepmom to his three children — Nate, Aidan and Wyatt — from his earlier relationship. Holmes, for his half, welcomed a daughter with spouse Marilee Fiebig in 2013. He additionally shares daughter Brianna and son Jaiden with ex-wife Amy Ferson.
After information broke of their offscreen relationship, the twosome initially returned to the GMA3 information desk for the December 1 broadcast and joked about their “nice week.” Nonetheless, ABC president Kim Godwin introduced at an editorial assembly days later that Robach and Holmes can be benched in the meanwhile. Per TMZ, the exec seen the colleagues’ chemistry as an “inside and exterior distraction.”
Amy Robach and TJ Holmes John Nacion/NurPhoto/Shutterstock
Stephanie Ramos and Gio Benitez stepped in to briefly change their fellow journalists throughout the Monday, December 5, episode. Dr. Jennifer Ashton stays the present’s well being knowledgeable.
Whereas the alleged affair got here as a shock to followers, a supply completely advised Us Weekly that the connection wasn’t a secret to Robach and Holmes’ GMA coworkers. “The GMA employees for probably the most half all knew that one thing was occurring between Amy and T.J., they had been all the time playful with one another, like two individuals who had been relationship,” the insider revealed. “Amy and T.J. didn’t appear to be they had been attempting to maintain their relationship secret anymore, everybody across the workplace might inform there was a spark between them for a lot of months.”
The Arkansas native, in the meantime, has continued to lift eyebrows for his historical past with different staffers. Us broke the information earlier this month that Holmes had “inappropriate moments” with a number of different colleagues at ABC, together with producer Natasha Singh.
“Amy is unlikely to care or be shocked by any extra kiss-and-tells that come to mild,” a supply advised Us, claiming that Robach helped the previous BET character “cowl up an indiscretion” earlier than their very own relationship bloomed.
