T.J. Holmes Under ABC's Microscope, Investigation Underway
By MLC on December 9, 2022 at 12:00 AM EST
ABC is doing a full court press on T.J. Holmes.
The once-cherished anchor is now being investigated by the network for his affair with Amy Robach and several other colleagues.
T.J. Holmes Is Under Investigation At ABC
According to reports, ABC’s investigative bells began ringing after news of his relationship with Robach, producer Natasha Singh and at least one other staffer hit the press.
The human resources department is looking into the philandering co-anchors past with the company to see if he had any other relationship with staffers underneath him.
If He Dated Anyone Under Him, He Could Be In MAJOR Trouble
“It’s one thing for him to have a relationship with another anchor,” an insider told Page Six. “The question is whether he violated company rules by dating less senior employees.”
ABC News chief, Kim Godwin, seemed to hint at a “no stone unturned” approach to Robach and Holmes’ scandal during a Monday company-wide meeting.
She decided to temporarily take Robach and Holmes off the air until the situation gets sorted.
Obviously now, Holmes’ inability to keep it in his pants has really put ABC between a rock and a hard place.
PUN INTENDED.
The Blast previously reported that Godwin informed staffers on December 5, of the co-anchors-turned-lovers temporary absence from ‘GMA3.’
She told ABC News employees during an editorial call on Monday that while Robach and Holmes did NOT violate any company policy, ABC News “wanted to do what’s best for the organization.”
Robach & Holmes Have Been Off Air Since Monday
ABC News executives are staying mum on the matter with the media.
Sources tell DailyMail.com that Stephanie Ramos and Gio Benitez will host GMA3’ this week while ABC works out how to handle the PR nightmare.
“There is massive confusion internally,” a source said. “ABC News executive Kim [Godwin] has taken them off the air while they deal with this internally.”
Furthermore, in a recently resurfaced audition tape from 2014, Holmes said he was a “proponent of marriage.”
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Holmes was auditioning for “Entertainment Tonight” and said on tape, “Marriage gets a bad rap so many times. I’m such a marriage proponent. I want everybody to get married. I think everybody should and I think you’re better off in doing so.”
Holmes married his wife, Marilee Fiebig, in 2010.
The TV news personality was engulfed in multiple affairs with co-workers.
He reportedly had a years-long affair with a ‘GMA’ executive producer prior to his relationship with Robach.
This executive also worked with Robach at the time of their affair with Holmes.
Holmes Has Had MULTIPLE Affairs With ABC Staffers
The exec reportedly left ‘GMA’ in 2017.
On December 4th, we reported on Robach and Holmes getting confronted about the affair by another ‘GMA’ co-anchor.
Veteran anchor and TV personality, Robin Roberts, reportedly confronted her co-workers about their affair years ago.
In a report from Page Six, Roberts warned Robach and Holmes about the rumors circulating in the office regarding a possible romance between them.
Multiple sources confirmed this to the outlet.
Robach and Holmes were outed after the Daily Mailpublished a multitude of paparazzi photos showing the co-anchors engaging in PDA.
It must be noted, Holmes was married to Marilee Fiebig while Robach was married to Andrew Schune before leaving him in August. The former couple have been separated for four months, but were reportedly working things out.
The co-workers were spotted “canoodling” at bars near ABC News in May.
However, rumors of something more going on date back as far as 2017, according to PS.
An insider revealed that Roberts pulled them both aside and basically told them to “Stop it.”
When Roberts confronted them about a romance, Holmes reportedly denied it. He was allegedly so concerned about the rumors hurting his career with ABC that he went to the higher-ups and squashed them himself.
“He was a correspondent at the time, and he didn’t want Robin thinking that about him. He went to [ABC brass] and got ahead of it to dismiss it because it wasn’t true,” they said.
An additional source told the publication that Holmes went straight to former ‘GMA’ executive producer Michael Corn, because “it was absolutely not true, and it freaked them out. Amy and T.J.’s friendship took a hit when the rumors started.”
