Amy Robach and TJ Holmes have announced that they are engaged, three years after their cheating scandal rocked the third hour of Good Morning America.
During Tuesday’s episode of the TJ & Amy podcast, the couple broke the news to their listeners, as Robach said, “We are sharing with all of you that we are engaged and we’ve been engaged for just about a month now.”
“We wanted to let you all know before anybody else was able to; we’ve learned that lesson, I guess, in the past about our relationship,” Holmes chimed in, referencing his and Robach’s infamous 2022 cheating scandal.
In December 2022, Holmes and Robach were rumored to be in a secret relationship while both were married to their respective spouses after the Daily Mail published photos of them on multiple outings and trips together. As they made headlines for their alleged relationship, ABC News president Kim Godwin pulled the GMA3 co-anchors off the air, as the network reportedly referred to their rumored relationship as “an internal and external disruption.”
The couple has since clarified that they were both in the middle of divorce proceedings at the time their relationship began.
Robach was previously married to Tim McIntosh from 1996 to 2008 and then to Andrew Shue from 2010 to 2023. Holmes was also married twice prior to their relationship with Amy Ferson from 2004 to 2007 and Marilee Fiebig from 2010 to 2023.
The two first spoke about their relationship in December 2023, one year after the former news anchors were taken off the air over rumors of an alleged affair.
Holmes said that while he and his co-host were “outed as being in a relationship,” fans thought they were having an affair, as the romance came after he split from his ex-wife, Fiebig. At the time, Robach had also recently split with her husband of 12 years, Shue.
“Everyone else thought we were being outed as adulterous, being outed as cheating on our spouses and it wasn’t the case,” he said. “Because the odd thing is that the day those pictures were taken and the day that article was released, we had both, at that point, been in divorce proceedings.”
Speaking more about the proposal, the relationship milestone has not been a complete secret, as Robach explained she was wearing her engagement ring in public, though no one ever “said a word.”
“I was in three massive football stadiums three weekends in a row, wearing my engagement ring very proudly, very excitedly, just waiting for somebody to point it out or ask me, ‘Hey, what’s that?’ And it never happened,” she said.
While the couple did not reveal any details surrounding their proposal, they explained they would likely tell the full story in the future.
Both Holmes and Robach have been open about their preferences for an engagement before, with Robach explaining that she would never want to get engaged on Christmas Day.
“I learned that no one should ever congratulate the bride after a proposal or a wedding,” she said during a December 2024 episode of their podcast. “You should congratulate the groom because he’s lucky to have her. But that is maybe old-fashioned.”
Prior to that, in a different December 2024 podcast episode, Robach said that in terms of an engagement between her and Holmes, “It’s not an if, it’s a when.”
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