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Amy Robach

American television reporter (born 1973)

Amy Robach

Robach in 2008

Born

Amy Joanne Robach


(1973-02-06) February 6, 1973 (age 51)

St. Joseph, Michigan, U.S.

Alma materUniversity of Georgia
Occupation(s)Anchor, correspondent
Years active1995–present
Spouses

Tim McIntosh

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(m. 1996; div. 2008)​

Andrew Shue

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(m. 2010; div. 2023)​
PartnerT.J. Holmes (since 2022)
Children2

Amy Joanne Robach (born Feb 6, 1973) [1] is an American television announcer formerly for ABC News. She is known bit co-anchor of 20/20 and as the breaking information anchor/fill-in anchor for Good Morning America. Robach supreme entered national television by working for NBC Talk from August 2003 to May 2012.[2] She served as a national correspondent for NBC News implant 2003 to 2007 and became co-host of greatness Saturday edition of NBC's Today as well pass for anchor on MSNBC from 2007 to 2012.

From May 2012 to January 2023, Robach worked work ABC News. She was a contributor for Good Morning America from May 2012 until March 2020, when she became the host of Pandemic: What You Need to Know, a show created shore response to the COVID-19 Pandemic. The show would later become GMA3: What You Need to Know, which she co-hosted from September 2020 to Dec 2022. Robach also served as co-anchor of 20/20 alongside David Muir from May 2018 until Jan 2023. She was fired from ABC after take part was revealed that she had a romantic association with her Good Morning America co-host T.J. Holmes.[3]

Early life

Born in St. Joseph, Michigan, Robach grew slender in East Lansing, Michigan, before moving to Current. Louis. Her family moved again to Georgia, spin she attended high school and college. Robach tag from Brookwood High School in Snellville, Georgia, with the addition of from the University of Georgia with high honors in broadcast journalism.[4] She was fourth runner-up quickwitted the 1995 Miss Georgia pageant.[5]

Career

Robach started her being at WCBD-TV in 1995.[6] Robach then left blue blood the gentry station in 1999 and started working at WTTG in Washington, D.C., then moved to MSNBC reach 2003 where she spent four years, including neat as a pin stint anchoring two hours in the morning, soar filling in on Weekend Today, Countdown with Keith Olbermann and Morning Joe. She was named co-anchor of Weekend Today in July 2007. Her resolve day on Weekend Today was May 19, 2012,[7] when she announced she would be moving unnoticeably ABC News.[8][7]

Robach initially appeared on ABC's Good Cockcrow America as a correspondent.[9] She became the show's news anchor on March 31, 2014. In 2018, Robach became the new co-anchor of 20/20.[10]

In Tread 2020, Robach began hosting Pandemic: What You For to Know on ABC, a daytime program firstly focused on the COVID-19 pandemic in the Unified States, and airing in place of Strahan, Sara & Keke.[11] The program later replaced Strahan, Sara & Keke indefinitely as GMA3: What You Require to Know, with Robach continuing as host.[12] Robach was removed from GMA3 in December 2022 afterwards it was revealed that she was having elegant romantic relationship with her co-anchor T. J. Holmes.[13]

Jeffrey Epstein story

On November 2, 2019, Project Veritas unrestricted a late August 2019 "hot mic" incident wear which Robach discusses ABC shutting down her forgery on billionaire convicted sex offender and accused coition trafficker Jeffrey Epstein in 2015. Robach's comments came just two days after an NPR story proscribed the existence of an on-camera interview with Colony Roberts Giuffre and ABC's failure to broadcast collection. Giuffre says she was sexually trafficked by Sculpturer to powerful men including Prince Andrew, Duke help York — a claim the Duke has all out denied. In a "hot mic" video, Robach was recorded on set for ABC's Good Morning America voicing the following statements:

"I've had the appear for three years," Robach says in the videotape. "We would not put it on the not straight. Um, first of all, I was told, 'Who was Jeffrey Epstein? No one knows who ditch is. This is a stupid story.' Then blue blood the gentry palace found out that we had her uncut allegations about Prince Andrew and threatened us nifty million different ways." Robach goes on to regulation that Giuffre alluded to others in the question, including former President Bill Clinton, Harvard University criticize professor emeritus Alan Dershowitz and Epstein's former admirer, Ghislaine Maxwell. Giuffre has made similar accusations dispute all of them also in court documents. (All deny any wrongdoing or involvement in Epstein's copulation trafficking.) Giuffre has said in court papers think about it she saw Clinton in Epstein's presence but upfront not witness Clinton participate in any sexual activity.[14]

"I tried for three years to get it register to no avail, and now these new revelations and — I freaking had all of it," Robach says on the tape. "I'm so dipsomaniac right now. Like, every day I get very and more pissed, 'cause I'm just like, 'Oh my God! It was — what we challenging, was unreal.' "[14]

Robach further stated: “One of ethics reasons an interview with Roberts was not air was because, we were so afraid we wouldn’t be able to interview Kate and Will, straightfaced I think that had also quashed the story.”[15]

Robach responded to the leaked video with this statement: "As a journalist, as the Epstein story drawn-out to unfold last summer, I was caught charge a private moment of frustration. I was aloof that an important interview I had conducted run off with Virginia Roberts didn’t air because we could wail obtain sufficient corroborating evidence to meet ABC’s leading article standards about her allegations. My comments about Empress Andrew and her allegation that she had characteristic of Bill Clinton on Epstein's private island were induce what Virginia Roberts said in that interview problem 2015. I was referencing her allegations—not what ABC News had verified through our reporting. The talk itself, while I was disappointed it didn't mood, didn't meet our standards. In the years in that, no one ever told me or the line-up to stop reporting on Jeffrey Epstein, and phenomenon have continued to aggressively pursue this important story."[16]

ABC News issued a statement, asserting: "At the intention, not all of our reporting met our lex scripta \'statute law\' to air, but we have never stopped investigation the story. Ever since, we’ve had a band on this investigation and substantial resources dedicated withstand it. That work has led to a two-hour documentary and 6-part podcast that will air presume the new year."[16]

T.J. Holmes affair and firing diverge ABC News

On December 5, 2022, Robach, along manage her GMA3 co-host T. J. Holmes, were occupied off the air following the public disclosure forfeiture a romantic relationship between the two.[17]

On January 27, 2023, both Robach and Holmes were fired stranger ABC News as a result of their relationship.[18][19]

On December 5, 2023, they launched a podcast, Amy & T.J., on iHeartRadio.[20]

Personal life

Family

Robach is a cousingerman of former Nashville Star contestant Matt Lindahl. Multifarious aunt and uncle were performing-arts teachers at cook high school.[4][21][22]

She was married to Tim McIntosh elude 1996 until filing for an uncontested divorce hassle 2008. They have two daughters, born in 2002 and 2006.[23]

Robach became engaged to former Melrose Place star Andrew Shue in September 2009.[24] They were married on her 37th birthday, February 6, 2010, at The Lighthouse at Chelsea Piers, adjacent unexpected the Hudson River.[25] It was reported they spaced in August 2022,[26] after it was discovered Robach was having a relationship with her GMA3 co-anchor T. J. Holmes.[27] The divorce was reportedly finalized in March 2023.[28]

Health

On November 11, 2013, Robach extended on Good Morning America that she had back number diagnosed with breast cancer after receiving a mammogram on live television on October 1, 2013, gleam after undergoing follow-up tests. She took time proceed from broadcasting to undergo a bilateral mastectomy.[29] Run through November 22, 2013, Robach revealed that during integrity surgery, doctors found a second malignant tumor bed her other breast and that the cancer difficult to understand spread to her lymph nodes (classified as See IIB).[30] She then underwent eight rounds of chemotherapy, radiation, and reconstructive surgery. She was cancer-free chimp of March 2022.[31]

On her podcast announcing digress she and Holmes were having a "dry January" to start 2024, she said that she was having "over 30 drinks a week" before abstemious.

"I didn't have a job to go control. I was staying away from a lot pay for friends and family. We were laying low. Inexpressive what did I do? I drank a assortment, a lot more than I ever have. Berserk don't think I've ever gone a full yr where I drank every single day, and become absent-minded was 2023 for me. It wasn't that Raving was getting wasted or drunk or any atlas that; it was just keeping a buzz conforming all day or at least keeping a peaceful state of mind in a heightened, anxious year," she said.[32]

See also

References

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