Pushed out of GMA? Amy & T.J.’s confession stirs up U.S. television.
Amy Robach and T.J. Holmes are getting candid about the future of their careers.
The former anchors opened up about the possibility of returning to the news desk while chatting exclusively with Parade at the iHeartRadio Music Awards, which were held at the Dolby Theatre in Los Angeles on Monday, March 17.
“We have had the luxury now of not having to just take whatever,” Holmes, 47, told Parade. “We have the freedom to take and do exactly what we want that’s in line with what we feel and in line with the direction our lives are going. I mean, [it’s] sad to say we have had zero interest in getting back into network news, in a traditional sense. We love where we are right now [and] where we’re going. But yeah, you’ll see us on TV, no problem.”
Of the ever-changing media landscape — including switch-ups at CNN, NBC, ABC and other network news programs — Robach, 52, told Parade that news is a hard industry to be in right now.
Amy Robach and T.J. HolmesDia Dipasupil/Getty Images
“It’s tough,” she said. “It’s hard to watch. It’s sad to watch the industry, and the career you chose because you loved it, kind of slowly falling apart in a way because of changing viewing habits and how people are getting news. It’s sad. It’s hard to watch, actually, and also to not be in it, to not be fighting for it from a television standpoint. We would love to be in the arena.”
All that said, the couple told Parade that if the right opportunity presented itself, they would jump at it.
Still, Holmes added, “We’re not chasing those opportunities right now.”
Holmes solidified his place as a broadcast journalist and news anchor when he anchored CNN’s Saturday & Sunday Morning from 2006 to 2011. He later served as a correspondent and anchor for ABC news from 2014 to 2022 before his r0mance with GMA3 host and ABC anchor Robach became public, resulting in their firing from the network. Both were married at the time and have since divorced their respective partners.
The duo currently host the “Amy & T.J.” podcast, on which they explore “meaningful conversations about current events, pop culture and everything in between” weekly.
