Why T.J. Holmes Credits Amy Robach’s Daughter for Their Milestone

After joining the ABC greeting amusement successful 2012, Amy Robach took implicit the post-Good Morning America timeslot arsenic big aft the Pandemic: What You Need to Know series was turned into GMA3: What You Need to Know.

T.J. Holmes, who was recruited by ABC News successful 2014 and became accelerated friends with Robach, was past named her co-host.

"You couldn't person picked a amended idiosyncratic to inquire maine what I thought of," Robach explained to People, "because we've been trying to fig retired a mode to enactment unneurotic for virtually the past 5 years."

Going connected to picture Holmes "like my brother," Holmes said, "We conscionable tin decorativeness each other's sentences. We get on truthful well. It's truthful fantastic to have, again, it's that trust, and you don't ever person that connected the set. But I cognize nary substance what I bash oregon say, he's got my backmost and vice versa, and that's everything."

Robach besides shared that she and her husband, Andrew Shue, often went connected treble dates with Holmes and his wife, Marilee Fiebig.

Robach, Shue and Holmes each ran the United New York City Half Marathon, with Holmes sharing afterward connected GMA3 that his co-anchor was the 1 who convinced him to bash it.

"And you enjoyed it, too," Robach told her colleague, who finished somewhat up of her. "The grin connected your look was undeniable. Also, I conscionable wanted to constituent out—I'm going to accidental it for you—TJ bushed me."

Holmes modestly concurred.

"We were moving together," helium said. "And I ended up a 2nd ahead, officially."

Holmes and Robach went connected to tally the New York City Marathon together, but this time, Shue was obscurity successful sight. 

Robach aboriginal revealed that portion she and Shue had already separated by this time, she had yet to stock the quality publicly. Still, she wasn't precisely trying to fell the information. 

"It was 1 of those things wherever everyone successful my choky ellipse knew I was getting divorced," she explained on  her podcast, Amy and T.J. "I took my ringing disconnected aboriginal August. It was precise wide to anyone who knew maine that I was successful the mediate of a divorce. T.J. is simply a overmuch much backstage idiosyncratic than maine and conscionable chose to support that to himself."

The quality anchors recovered themselves becoming the communicative erstwhile the Daily Mail published photos and video footage of the 2 getting cozy connected respective outings, including a dinner successful New York City and a getaway to Upstate New York. The images were taken portion the 2 were seemingly inactive joined to their respective partners.

Shortly aft their alleged matter made headlines, the GMA3 anchors deactivated their respective Instagram accounts. Shue also removed each photos of Robach from his own Instagram page.

When Robach and Holmes returned to enactment connected Dec. 1, they reportedly arrived together, looking precise overmuch a couple.

And the pursuing day, the GMA3 hosts alluded to the play that was percolating down the scenes.

"You know, it's excessively atrocious it's Friday," Holmes quipped during the show. "It's been a large week, conscionable privation this 1 to support going, and going, and going."

It did yet travel to a swift end, however, erstwhile the brace was put connected hiatus pending an interior investigation implicit their romanticist relationship.

"I recognize that the continuing sum tin beryllium distracting from the incredibly important enactment our squad does present astatine ABC News," ABC president Kim Godwin wrote successful Dec. 12 a memo to staff, noting that determination are a "rotation of anchors at GMA3 for the clip being."

"It is my anticipation that we volition proceed to absorption our vigor connected what we bash best," Godwin continued, "and I privation each of you to cognize however immensely arrogant I americium of your hard enactment and professionalism."

Holmes filed for divorcement from Fiebig aft astir 13 years of marriage.

The pair, who stock 10-year-old daughter Sabine, had privately been separated, according to Holmes, who said that helium didn't deliberation to stock quality of his narration with Robach close away, arsenic helium was inactive navigating the aspects of his breakup wrong his family.

"My daughter, I mean she's 10," Holmes explained successful the debut occurrence of the Amy & T.J. podcast. "I was inactive trying to get her adjusted to her caller world of her parents not being together."

Holmes went connected to uncover helium hadn't adjacent told his ma astir his divided from Fiebig earlier his narration with Robach was outed. 

"So wherefore the hellhole americium I reasoning astir telling an enforcement and the web astir it?" helium posed. "So that's wherever our heads were. In hindsight, sure, possibly we screwed up."

Holmes and Fiebig, who slammed her ex's "lack of discretion" amid his caller romance, finalized their divorcement successful October 2023.

ABC News confirmed that Robach and Holmes had exited the institution successful a Jan. 27 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," a spokesperson for the enactment told E! News astatine the time. "We admit their endowment and committedness implicit the years and are thankful for their contributions."

Leading up to the decision, the mates was spotted respective times implicit the holidays—including astatine the Atlanta airport, wherever Holmes was seen with his arms wrapped astir Amy arsenic they wheeled their luggage—and  they seemingly confirmed their romance with a steamy buss successful Miami implicit the New Year's holiday.

Separated since the erstwhile summer, Robach and Shue's divorcement was finalized. 

The brace got joined successful February 2010 and it was the 2nd matrimony for some Robach and the Melrose Place alum. 

Robach was joined to Tim McIntosh from 1996 to 2008, and shares daughters Ava and Analise with him, portion Shue has sons Nate, Aidan and Wyatt from his matrimony to Jennifer Hageney. He and Robach co-authored a 2021 children's book, Better Together!, astir blending their families.

Almost 1 twelvemonth aft their narration was revealed to the public, the brace finally made things Instagram official.

 On Oct. 23, Holmes posted respective photos of himself and Robach getting cozy connected the sidelines of a University of Arkansas Razorbacks crippled during a sojourn to his alma mater.

Robach besides shared images from the outing connected her Instagram page, including a photograph of signs reserving their seats.

"Hog for a night," the University of Georgia alum captioned the post. "Dawg for beingness "#truelove."

Robach and Holmes got into the vacation tone erstwhile they made their reddish carpet debut arsenic a mates astatine Jingle Ball 2023. 

Robach wore a strapless achromatic leather mini formal to the concert, portion Holmes donned a achromatic velvet tux with nary tie. And the duo wasn't shy astir packing connected the PDA portion posing for photographs, with Robach besides sharing a video of Holmes playfully placing a stuffed carnal connected her thorax and she laughed successful response.

Their festive day nighttime came conscionable 4 days earlier the motorboat of their caller iHeartRadio podcast, Amy & T.J.

Robach and Holmes yet broke their soundlessness connected the ungraded and shared intimate details astir their narration successful the debut occurrence of their Amy & T.J. podcast.

"To beryllium clear, we were outed arsenic being successful a relationship," Holmes stated, "but everyone other thought we were being outed arsenic adulterous, being outed arsenic cheating connected our spouses and it wasn't the case. Because the unusual happening is that the time those pictures were taken and the time that nonfiction was released, we had both, astatine that point, been successful divorcement proceedings."

The mates besides opened up astir the toll the contention took connected them arsenic individuals, with Robach detailing an lawsuit erstwhile she rushed implicit to Holmes' flat aft receiving a concerning substance from him that helium "didn't privation to get up," a feeling she could subordinate to. 

"To consciousness like, you know, who is inactive down me? Who supports me? Will I enactment again? Will I ever beryllium trusted again?" she explained. "Will radical judge what truly happened versus what radical person written happened? And those were each things that we had to spell done and woody with and I volition accidental that I felt highly fortunate that we had each other."