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    Amy Robach, T.J. Holmes say ‘most’ ABC colleagues never spoke to them again after scandal: ‘Not like I murdered someone’

    By Eileen Reslen,

    20 days ago

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    The majority of Amy Robach and T.J. Holmes’ former ABC News colleagues gave them the cold shoulder after their love affair was exposed nearly two years ago and they were fired shortly after.

    “Once it was clear that we weren’t coming back, I never heard from most people again,” Robach, 51, claimed on the latest episode of the “Amy and T.J. Podcast” Wednesday.

    Holmes, 46, said he understood his former co-workers’ hesitation “to a certain degree,” adding, “Everybody’s trying to hold on to their job.

    “They don’t want to be seen as being an ally of two people that ABC News doesn’t like.”

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    Amy Robach shared on her podcast that she “never heard from most” of her colleagues again after the fallout from her relationship with T.J. Holmes. Amy and T.J. Podcast/Instagram
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    Robach and Holmes’ romance became public in November 2022. ajrobach/Instagram
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    Robach and Holmes were still married at the time to Marilee Fiebig and Andrew Shue, who are now also a couple. BrosNYC / BACKGRID

    In November 2022, photos of the ABC journalists getting cozy on various outings throughout upstate New York and Manhattan were released online, revealing for the first time that the pair was dating.

    Since Robach and Holmes were still legally married to their respective partners — Marilee Fiebig and Andrew Shue — at the time, it was rumored that the co-workers-turned-lovers had an affair.

    Amy Robach, TJ Holmes’ exes Andrew Shue, Marilee Fiebig get handsy in first PDA photos since dating news

    However, the “GMA3” co-anchors denied ever cheating on their exes, and Robach still claimed on her podcast Wednesday that the leaked pictures just showed her and Holmes in a “private relationship.”

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    Holmes said he understood his former colleagues’ position “to a certain degree.” Amy and T.J. Podcast/Instagram
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    “They don’t want to be seen as being an ally of two people that ABC News doesn’t like,” he reflected. Amy and T.J. Podcast/Instagram

    The former “20/20” co-anchor said when she and her boyfriend returned to ABC News two days after the photos were made public, they were actually “surrounded by support” at first.

    “My dressing room was full of all of our colleagues,” Robach said, prompting Holmes to add, “Some of it fake. Some of it fake. Absolutely, some of it was BS.”

    The former news anchors used to work at “Good Morning America” with Robin Roberts, George Stephanopoulos, Lara Spencer, Ginger Zee, Jennifer Ashton and Michael Strahan.

    It’s unclear which former colleagues were the ones to ice out the couple after the president of ABC deemed their scandalous romance a “distraction” for others on the network.

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    Robach and Holmes appeared on “GMA3” together. Getty Images
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    They were fired in January 2023 after their romance was deemed a “distraction.” ABC

    T.J. Holmes ‘walked the streets,’ slept on bench before Amy Robach ‘saved’ him from ‘awful’ depression

    However, Strahan, at least, was confirmed to be one of the few industry friends the podcasters still have.

    Holmes said they actually went out to lunch with the former NFL star, 52, just last week but tried to keep their social outing on the down low to protect him.

    “You wouldn’t believe the effort we put into it,” Holmes said, sharing that they tried to arrange different arrival times at their meetup spot to avoid being seen with Strahan.

    However, the former “Live! With Kelly and Michael” host reportedly told his pals, “You idiots, just stop.”

    “This is a guy that we’ve been very close to for 10 years now and even we didn’t want to get whatever our stank is on him for some reason,” Holmes said. “We struggle to get out of that mindset but friends like that do help.”

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    Holmes and Robach have continued to date despite the scandal. Jordan Strauss/Invision/AP
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    However, the couple said they make an “effort” to avoid being seen in public with the few colleagues who are still their friends. ajrobach/Instagram
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    Holmes said he and Robach are strategic about being seen with former colleagues like Strahan in public to avoid getting their “stank” on him. WireImage

    Robach added, “I used to say, ‘It’s not like I murdered someone,’ but I definitely felt like that’s how it seemed if you read comments anywhere from all of these articles.

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    “It weighs you down to the point where you think, ‘I’m the worst person in the world,’ and you do feel like you’ve committed a crime. It’s bizarre.”

    The mother of two said it feels “strange” to be “hated” just for “loving someone,” and said it felt especially “frustrating” because the cheating narrative was just simply not true.

    Despite feeling like outcasts at times, Robach and Holmes both agreed they have “zero desire” to return to network news and shared they both feel they should have probably “given up that gig a long time ago.”

    “We know how the sausage is made and it got more and more frustrating to me the more I got to a higher level,” Robach said, adding that she often felt “frustration with the industry.”

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    Robach said on her podcast, “I used to say, ‘It’s not like I murdered someone,’ but I definitely felt like that’s how it seemed.” FilmMagic
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    The journalist added that it feels “strange” to be “hated” just for “loving someone.” ajrobach/Instagram

    She concluded, “It is a business, so I wanted to be a journalist and sometimes those two don’t work well together.”

    While Robach and Holmes appear to have moved on, for the most part, their exes have done so as well.

    Earlier this week, Fiebig, 46, and Shue, 57 — who are now dating each other — were seen getting handsy in New York City, confirming they are also still going strong.

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