T.J. Holmes As soon as Defended Marriage’s ‘Dangerous Rap’ Earlier than Scandal

Almost eight years earlier than T.J. Holmes and coanchor Amy Robach’s relationship standing made headlines, the previous CNN character gushed in regards to the sanctity of marriage.

“Marriage will get a nasty rap so many occasions,” Holmes, 45, beforehand informed Leisure Tonight in 2014, throughout a previous audition for the TV program. “I’m such a wedding proponent. I would like everyone to get married. I feel everyone ought to and I feel you’re higher off in doing so.”

Holmes married lawyer Marilee Fiebig — with whom he shares 9-year-old daughter Sabine — almost 4 years earlier. Nevertheless, their relationship standing was questioned late final month after the BET alum and Robach, 49, had been noticed trying cozy in a collection of pictures printed by the Every day Mail. Robach — who married Andrew Shue in 2010 — and Holmes have but to publicly deal with the snaps and Us Weekly reached out for remark.

Robach — who shares two daughters with ex-husband Tim McIntosh — and Holmes have cohosted GMA3: What You Have to Know since September 2020, alongside Dr. Jennifer Ashton. Regardless of being married to different individuals, Holmes’ relationship with Robach blossomed by the years.

“They all the time had a spark and their work journeys away collectively introduced them even nearer,” a supply solely informed Us final month of the 2 cohosts and working buddies. “They’ve been making an attempt to maintain their relationship a secret till they had been able to announce.”

Holmes — who coparents daughter Brianna and son Jaiden with ex-wife Amy Ferson — and Robach have since returned to Good Morning America’s third-hour broadcasts as standard on Thursday, December 1, and Friday, December 2, however didn’t deal with the controversy.

“Amy and T.J. have been arriving to work pretending like every part is regular, they’ve been carrying on like they might some other day,” a second insider informed Us earlier this month. “The GMA employees, for probably the most half, all knew that one thing was taking place between Amy and T.J., they had been all the time playful with one another, like two individuals who had been courting. Amy and T.J. didn’t appear to be they had been making an attempt to maintain their relationship secret anymore, everybody across the workplace might inform there was a spark between them for a lot of months.”

As the 2 NBC personalities continued to cowl the information on GMA3, a number of of their on-air feedback turned heads in gentle of the scandal.

“We might use some [words of wisdom],” Robach — who’s stepmother to Shue’s three sons with ex-wife Jennifer Hageney — quipped throughout Friday’s broadcast, pointedly her cohost.

“Properly, , we’re within the vacation season, and this can be a time the place we’re round households and generally we are able to find yourself being in contrast involuntarily,” creator Nona Jones informed the pair throughout their “Religion Friday” phase. “Perfection isn’t within the eye of the beholder. Perfection is within the eye of the creator. We had been created good, so it doesn’t matter what any person says about you, you had been created good, and you need to personal that reality.”

Holmes was significantly moved by Jones’ pearls of knowledge. “I do know what she’s about to say. She’s about to say that simply gave her chills,” the previous MSNBC correspondent mentioned of Robach. “However it’s uncommon that I get to say it. That gave me chills as effectively, and it’s a well timed message for lots of parents proper now, together with the 2 of us you’re sitting in entrance of, so we completely respect that, Nona.”

Neither Holmes nor Robach have addressed the standing of their respective marriages however have since deleted their social media accounts. Shue, 55, for his half, additionally scrubbed his Instagram profile of any pictures of the journalist.