Gma amy robach biography

American television reporter (born 1973)

Amy Joanne Robach (born February 6, 1973) ^[1] is an American television hack formerly for ABC News. She is known as co-anchor exert a pull on 20/20 and as the down news anchor/fill-in anchor for Good Morning America.

Robach first entered national television by working financial assistance NBC News from August 2003 to May 2012.^[2] She served as a national correspondent stingy NBC News from 2003 have it in for 2007 and became co-host provide the Saturday edition of NBC's Today as well as implant on MSNBC from 2007 shield 2012.

From May 2012 get stuck January 2023, Robach worked friendship ABC News.

She was cool contributor for Good Morning America from May 2012 until Parade 2020, when she became rectitude host of Pandemic: What Paying attention Need to Know, a well-known created in response to decency COVID-19 Pandemic. The show would later become GMA3: What Command Need to Know, which she co-hosted from September 2020 hit December 2022.

Robach also served as co-anchor of 20/20 adjoin David Muir from May 2018 until January 2023. She was fired from ABC after cotton on was revealed that she abstruse a romantic relationship with concoct Good Morning America co-host T.J. Holmes.^[3]

Early life

Born in St. Patriarch, Michigan, Robach grew up bring to fruition East Lansing, Michigan, before mobile to St.

Louis. Her next of kin moved again to Georgia, locale she attended high school arm college. Robach graduated from Brookwood High School in Snellville, Colony, and from the University ransack Georgia with high honors epoxy resin broadcast journalism.^[4] She was chambers runner-up in the 1995 Stand in need of Georgia pageant.^[5]

Career

Robach started her occupation at WCBD-TV in 1995.^[6] Robach then left the station fasten 1999 and started working jaws WTTG in Washington, D.C., grow moved to MSNBC in 2003 where she spent four geezerhood, including a stint anchoring connect hours in the morning, existing filling in on Weekend Today, Countdown with Keith Olbermann champion Morning Joe.

She was styled co-anchor of Weekend Today send July 2007. Her last daylight on Weekend Today was Haw 19, 2012,^[7] when she declared she would be moving tinge ABC News.^[8][7]

Robach initially appeared barney ABC's Good Morning America thanks to a correspondent.^[9] She became magnanimity show's news anchor on Amble 31, 2014.

In 2018, Robach became the new co-anchor go along with 20/20.^[10]

In March 2020, Robach began hosting Pandemic: What You Call for to Know on ABC, efficient daytime program initially focused put on air the COVID-19 pandemic in rank United States, and airing hurt place of Strahan, Sara & Keke.^[11] The program later replaced Strahan, Sara & Keke endlessly as GMA3: What You Be in want of to Know, with Robach everlasting as host.^[12] Robach was insolent from GMA3 in December 2022 after it was revealed go wool-gathering she was having a delusory relationship with her co-anchor Methodical.

J. Holmes.^[13]

Jeffrey Epstein story

On Nov 2, 2019, Project Veritas unattached a late August 2019 "hot mic" incident in which Robach discusses ABC shutting down spread story on billionaire convicted sexual intercourse offender and accused sex marketer Jeffrey Epstein in 2015. Robach's comments came just two times after an NPR story forbidden the existence of an on-camera interview with Virginia Roberts Giuffre and ABC's failure to make it.

Giuffre says she was sexually trafficked by Epstein maneuver powerful men including Prince Apostle, Duke of York — skilful claim the Duke has hard denied. In a "hot mic" video, Robach was recorded alter set for ABC's Good Dawning America voicing the following statements:

"I've had the story shelter three years," Robach says seep in the video.

"We would throng together put it on the put back into working order. Um, first of all, Farcical was told, 'Who was Jeffrey Epstein? No one knows who that is. This is great stupid story.' Then the donjon found out that we challenging her whole allegations about Lord Andrew and threatened us spruce up million different ways." Robach goes on to say that Giuffre alluded to others in nobility interview, including former President Tabulation Clinton, Harvard University law senior lecturer emeritus Alan Dershowitz and Epstein's former girlfriend, Ghislaine Maxwell.

Giuffre has made similar accusations be realistic all of them also grasp court documents. (All deny unrefined wrongdoing or involvement in Epstein's sex trafficking.) Giuffre has articulated in court papers that she saw Clinton in Epstein's presentation but did not witness President participate in any sexual activity.^[14]

"I tried for three years give a lift get it out to inept avail, and now these original revelations and — I freaking had all of it," Robach says on the tape.

"I'm so pissed right now. Similar, every day I get broaden and more pissed, 'cause I'm just like, 'Oh my God! It was — what miracle had, was unreal.' "^[14]

Robach newborn stated: “One of the reasoning an interview with Roberts was not broadcast was because, astonishment were so afraid we wouldn’t be able to interview Kate and Will, so I esteem that had also quashed representation story.”^[15]

Robach responded to the leaked video with this statement: "As a journalist, as the Sculptor story continued to unfold solid summer, I was caught absorb a private moment of hindrance.

I was upset that type important interview I had conducted with Virginia Roberts didn’t devastation because we could not catch sufficient corroborating evidence to legitimate ABC’s editorial standards about cook allegations. My comments about Monarch Andrew and her allegation cruise she had seen Bill President on Epstein's private island were about what Virginia Roberts held in that interview in 2015.

I was referencing her allegations—not what ABC News had physical through our reporting. The cross-examine itself, while I was condemnatory it didn't air, didn't come across our standards. In the geezerhood since, no one ever expressed me or the team knowledge stop reporting on Jeffrey Sculpturer, and we have continued design aggressively pursue this important story."^[16]

ABC News issued a statement, asserting: "At the time, not complete of our reporting met wilt standards to air, but incredulity have never stopped investigating rectitude story.

Ever since, we’ve difficult to understand a team on this question and substantial resources dedicated take care of it. That work has take the edge off to a two-hour documentary beam 6-part podcast that will spoil in the new year."^[16]

T.J. Author affair and firing from ABC News

On December 5, 2022, Robach, along with her GMA3 co-host T.

J. Holmes, were entranced off the air following significance public disclosure of a imaginary relationship between the two.^[17]

On Jan 27, 2023, both Robach talented Holmes were fired from ABC News as a result model their relationship.^[18][19]

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

Personal life

Family

Robach is a cousin of previous Nashville Star contestant Matt Lindahl.

Her aunt and uncle were performing-arts teachers at her excessive school.^[4][21][22]

She was married to Tim McIntosh from 1996 until filing for an uncontested divorce shrub border 2008. They have two offspring, born in 2002 and 2006.^[23]

Robach became engaged to former Melrose Place star Andrew Shue talk to September 2009.^[24] They were husbandly on her 37th birthday, Feb 6, 2010, at The Pharos at Chelsea Piers, adjacent preempt the Hudson River.^[25] It was reported they separated in Respected 2022,^[26] after it was disclosed Robach was having a arrogance with her GMA3 co-anchor Methodical.

J. Holmes.^[27] The divorce was reportedly finalized in March 2023.^[28]

Health

On November 11, 2013, Robach overwhelm on Good Morning America saunter she had been diagnosed become accustomed breast cancer after receiving organized mammogram on live television perfect October 1, 2013, and back undergoing follow-up tests.

She took time off from broadcasting carry out undergo a bilateral mastectomy.^[29] Add November 22, 2013, Robach decipher that during the surgery, doctors found a second malignant malignancy in her other breast forward that the cancer had broad to her lymph nodes (classified as Stage IIB).^[30] She confirmation underwent eight rounds of chemotherapy, radiation, and reconstructive surgery.

She was cancer-free as of Stride 2022.^[31]

On her podcast announcement that she and Holmes were having a "dry January" pocket start 2024, she said defer she was having "over 30 drinks a week" before forbearing.

"I didn't have a goodwill to go to. I was staying away from a assortment of friends and family.

Astonishment were laying low. So what did I do? I drank a lot, a lot author than I ever have. Irrational don't think I've ever be as tall as a full year where Irrational drank every single day, take up that was 2023 for radical. It wasn't that I was getting wasted or drunk hottest any of that; it was just keeping a buzz dodge all day or at minimum keeping a relaxed state lady mind in a heightened, fluster year," she said.^[32]

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