By now, everyone knows all about Amy Robach and T.J. Holmes’ relationship. How could we not? They’re constantly talking about it. They have a whole ass podcast in which they tell their side of the story. According to T.J. and Amy’s own words, the two first started having feelings for each other sometime during the summer of 2022. They both claim that they were secretly separated from their then-spouses at the time and fell for one another organically by spending so much time together at work (and, according to rumors, drinking together every day after work). Yeah, sure, they were sneaking around in secret, but they swear that they never cheated.
On their first-ever episode, Amy and T.J. talked about their secret longing for one another prior to getting together. A couple of weeks ago, they did a live filming of their podcast where they talked about keeping their crumbling marriages a secret from everyone at GMA and how embarrassed they were at how it all played out. During that same taping, they reiterated that their affair began as an emotional one and that it was more of a “Guilty as Sin?” situation than a physical affair. In fact, T.J. claimed that he told Amy that he was in love with her before the two of them even “held hands.”
“I don’t [think] I ever, like, touched your hand,” she told Holmes during the episode, adding, “We never held hands. There was nothing physical. And I never in my life could have imagined feeling that kind of love for someone where it never started out as lust. … It was just this deep foundation of friendship, love, respect.”
“We had been in the trenches together on television, in a very high-stress situation in the network newsroom, and we had been there for each other in our darkest moments,” she continued. “We started leaning on each other in so many emotional ways. And it was just there was such a depth to what we had. It was so different than anything I’ve ever experienced.”
During the episode, Robach also explained how her cancer journey, which began when she was diagnosed with breast cancer in October 2013, played a “huge role” in her decision to pursue her feelings for Holmes.
“I asked myself, if your cancer came back, and you knew you had one year to live, how would you spend it? And it wasn’t even close. I would spend it with T.J.,” she explained. “I have preached, and I’ve given speeches to breast cancer survivors … and anyone who’s gone through anything life-threatening or had anything where you thought you might die, whatever it is. You learn that tomorrow is not guaranteed.
Despite the controversy around their relationship and the professional setbacks they’ve faced, Robach and Holmes told the audience at the June 10 event that the couple’s rocky journey has ultimately been worthwhile.
“The journey that’s brought us here in front of you, we can be grateful for,” Holmes said. “When that rare thing happens in — maybe it’s love — but when it’s right there in front of you, life is too short, you have to go for it.”
So yes, that’s their story and they’re sticking to it. Falling in love with a close coworker is not even an original story. Tale as old as time or whatever. I’m still side-eyeing their timeline and the claim that they weren’t cheating. I do understand Amy’s feelings about seizing the day after having cancer, though. She handled her feelings for someone else poorly by acting on them. You can live your truth without hurting those around you and blowing up your career.
Anyway, do you think that at some point they’ll stop talking about themselves and their origin story? Surely, they have more interesting things to say. They may not work for GMA anymore, but they’re both still journalists, for goodness sake. I looked at a list of recent guests on the pod and they include Tiffany Haddish, The Bachelor’s Matt James, Vanderpump Rules’ Tom Schwartz, Gavin Rossdale, RHOM’s Larsa Pippen, A.J. McLean, Cheryl Burke, and Below Deck’s Captain Lee. Episodes in between are basically “shoot the sh-t” type discussions about their personal lives or a topic in the news at the moment. I bet they could pivot into something more if they really wanted to. It only takes one good scoop to be relevant again.
Cheating doesn’t have to be physical. If you are leaning on another person, getting your emotional needs from them instead of your life partner, husband, wife, that is still cheating. There are a lot of serial cheaters who prepare their next partner before getting out of their current relationship. The sad thing is, if they invested the time they spent together on their own families, their marriages might not have ended. I can’t imagine what their kids are thinking, hearing all about these.
Sandavol on Vanderpump rules is famous for finding a new one before he breaks up with the old one.
People is putting the best spin on this, but an emotional affair literally means that you had an -affair-. It’s cheating.
Alcohol is one of the risk factors for breast cancer. My friends were told this—I’m surprised that she’s admitted to drinking as much as she has admitted to.
At this point, they have been talking about their affair for longer than it went on. That’s how it seems anyway.
Also, hot take: if a man grabs your ass during a photo shoot, he has problems with control and respect.
that is hardly a hot take – it’s just the truth. people need to respect personal boundaries and bodily autonomy!
They didn’t get caught sooner so they don’t have to tell the truth about when they really started up. I only want to hear about the exes and the children. These two are trash.
In another timeline that was oh so tantalizingly close to actually happening, Amy Robach breaks the Epstein story doing the type of hard hitting investigative journalism that she had spent her adult career honing (in our timeline, the story gets killed…) and she goes on to eventually anchor on her own 20/20… BUT, nope! Blew up her whole career, and a respected one at that, for her GMA lecherous co-anchor. Blah, the whole thing is depressing to me.
Agree.
Not a lot of room for journalism to co-exist with narcissism.
Oh that is depressing ha ha.
The fact that she was married to Andrew Shue and threw away her relationship to him is kind of fascinating to me. On the surface, he seems like a nice enough, good looking man to be married to if you’re in the middle stage of your life.
I feel they have grossly overestimated the public’s interest in their story.
No, they are a couple of weak-willed people who destroyed their careers for lust.
I haven’t been following their story closely so I may be out of the loop. Is there any evidence that they’re lying about when they got involved with each other? Have either of the exes called bs on their timeline?
For some reason, I thought people at ABC were aware of something going on, but they didn’t get fired until
The Daily Mail outed their relationship — the reasoning being that the higher-ups didn’t want the public distracted from the news content by speculating about the two while they were on air.
Since he’s a man, I’m not surprised by him. But I’m surprised she’d risk the upward swing of her career. Network journalism is such a competitive environment- why would you risk losing it all? A tax accountant can bounce back. A female news anchor? It’s game-over. A prestigious job in a cut-throat environment and high salary — why throw it all way???
Is their relationship having issues? Because if you’re so blissfully happy you’re not talking about how your relationship started while married to other people 24/7
Since all sympathy fell to their betrayed spouses, they can’t play the victims of cruel exes who were so evil towards them, they had no choice to turn to each other and oops fell in love.
They have plausible deniability on physical cheating if I understand correctly (but of course I do not believe it) but it is very evident they had each other lined up waiting in the wings (emotional cheating).
Why are they taking about this? Is it to try and get another job?
I think what they did is wrong (if someone were to directly ask me what I think they did), but it’s also none of my business. They’re not obligated to tell us the nitty-gritty. Denying won’t help improve their reputations, but neither will yapping about it either.