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When Falling in Love Becomes a ‘Scandal’

Why were ‘Good Morning, America’ co-anchors Amy Robach & T. J. Holmes targeted for doing what others have done?

The interracial love affair between Good Morning, America co-anchors Amy Robach and T. J. Holmes has become the story that refuses to die. Even though the anchors parted company with the ABC network last month after news of their relationship became public, they remain the center of a tabloid feeding frenzy.

Amy Robach is white, and T. J. Holmes is Black.

For the past two years, they co-hosted the third hour of ABC’s Good Morning, America, called GMA3: What You Need to Know.

Last year, ABC snagged an enviable deal with Great Britain’s BBC for exclusive coverage of Queen Elizabeth II’s 70th anniversary as monarch. To capitalize on the coup, the network sent Amy and T. J. to co-anchor the event in London, along with several other recognizable network correspondents.

Several months after they returned home

— at the end of November 2022, a right-wing British tabloid called the Daily Mail “broke the story” that the two married…