As anticipated, Amy Robach and T.J. Holmes addressed several contentious inquiries during their podcast on Tuesday. “Nothing was off-limits.” The journalists engaged in a wide range of topics, including the initial mover, the possibility of marriage, and whether former ABC News colleagues, such as Robin Roberts, provided support for their relationship.
Presented below are the most talked-about moments.
Holmes and Robach disclose a dating chronology.
Although their relationship was not publicly disclosed until November, Robach and Holmes had been a couple for a number of months prior to that. In the summer of 2022, they came to the realization that their friendship was “developing” into something more substantial.
“We were very close to entering divorce proceedings,” Holmes said on iHeartRadio’s Amy & T.J. podcast. “We refrained from disclosing that information to one another due to my current position, where I am pondering, “Lord, this has been an excellent best-friend companionship; I don’t want to jeopardize it by revealing to her any feelings that go beyond friendship.” We therefore maneuvered somewhat cautiously on our toes.
Further, “I refrained from expressing myself.” “You didn’t want to say anything, but then as we proceeded through last summer, things definitely changed and we started having conversations.”
Robach was cognizant of the fact that they were “spending so much time together at work” and thus her emotions were changing. She stated that they were not anticipating the weekends because they would not be together. “I remember us both saying, ‘Oh, Fridays are a bummer,'” she recounted.
Who was the initial mover?
“It was you,” Holmes assuredly informed Robach. “I’d argue it was you.” He did, however, acknowledge uttering “I love you” initially.
“Did I lean in first?” Robach inquired.
“It’s not about a leaning in, it’s about a move — somebody who initiated something physical that was beyond what the friendship had been, I think that was you,” according to Holmes. “I’m sure it was you.”
“Did Robin Roberts cut contact with you all and abandon you?”
A specific individual inquired whether their colleagues on Good Morning America were accepting of their romantic relationship, and directed the inquiry toward Roberts. They received “initial support” from colleagues, according to Robach.
“We initially received nothing but support, and when we first went back to work those first two days, my dressing room was filled with love and support,” according to her. (Robach and Holmes hosted GMA3 after their relationship was outed in the press, but two days later were told not to come in — and they never returned.) “Not everyone abandoned us, and we got a lot of follow-up texts. I have no idea how individuals currently feel about being aligned with us… “I am actually a little hesitant to say who continues to support us, but our former colleagues have provided us with tremendous assistance.”
“I think that’s a damn shame,” Holmes added, saying it’s “absolutely ridiculous” that they are “worried that if somebody is affiliated with us, that will hurt them.”
‘Shocked’ were the daughters of Robach upon learning of Holmes’s romance.
The veteran anchor has two daughters, Ava and Annalise, from her first marriage to Tim McIntosh.
“Even when my daughters found out about this, because of the tabloids, they were shocked and thrown a punch that I think a lot of people felt when they found out about us,” Robach said. “I remember my oldest daughter said to me, you know, she thought it was such a quick decision, that it was just an abrupt thing I just leapt into. And I said that, ‘No, I thought about this.’ I sat with this. I knew how I felt. I knew how he felt about me. I knew how I felt about him and I really carefully considered what I wanted to do before I did it.”
Robach explained how surviving breast cancer helped put life in perspective, as she knows how “rare it is to find something like this and how we have one shot at life, one shot at love.”
“I wasn’t living my truth,” she added, declaring that sometimes “living your truth means making a change.”
