T.J. Holmes Called Himself A 'Marriage Proponent' Before Alleged Amy Robach Affair
KEY POINTS
- An archived video of T.J. Holmes talking about the importance of marriage recently resurfaced
- The anchor called himself a "marriage proponent" in the 2014 interview
- He made headlines last week for his alleged affair with "GMA3" co-anchor Amy Robach
An old clip of T.J. Holmes describing himself as a huge "proponent" of marriage has resurfaced after his alleged affairs were thrust into the spotlight.
Holmes talked about the importance of marriage and how everyone should tie the knot during his 2014 audition to be a host for "Entertainment Tonight."
"Marriage gets a bad rap so many times," Holmes said in the archived video recently shared by ET. "I'm such a marriage proponent. I want everybody to get married. I think everybody should and I think you're better off in doing so."
The 45-year-old journalist has been making headlines over the past week for his alleged affair with "GMA3" co-anchor Amy Robach. Daily Mail published photos of the still-legally-married TV personalities holding hands in a car during a vacation in upstate New York and cozying up at a bar in New York City.
Holmes has been married to his wife Marilee Fiebig since 2010, but the pair reportedly separated in August. Robach's relationship with her husband Andrew Shue also ended around the same time, People reported.
Holmes allegedly also had a three-year affair with married "Good Morning America" producer Natasha Singh that began in 2016, Page Six and Daily Mail reported, citing unnamed insiders.
Multiple sources told Page Six that Holmes and Singh confided in Robach about their alleged infidelity, with one insider claiming, "Amy was the person they went to talk to about their affair and marriages."
But another source disputed the claim, telling the outlet that Robach "didn't know about the affair until it was in its final stages. They told her about it right at the end."
The alleged affair reportedly started off long distance, with Holmes based in New York and Singh working as a producer for the show from Los Angeles. Singh moved to New York in 2018 and started working as a producer for "CBS Mornings," which allegedly gave them the opportunity to spend more time together.
The outlet's sources claimed that Fiebig found out about the affair in 2019 after discovering several emails, which reportedly led to Holmes ending his alleged relationship with Singh.
Holmes and his wife worked to reconcile their marriage throughout the COVID-19 pandemic, to no avail, sources told Page Six.
Despite having been separated for four months, Fiebig was blindsided by her husband's romance with Robach, Page Six reported, citing another unnamed insider.
"Marilee never considered Amy because she was focused on Natasha. She never thought about [him cheating] with Amy because they were friends. Amy's daughter was their daughter's babysitter," the source claimed.
But an unnamed source told People that Holmes and Robach had been separated from their spouses when they started dating and that there was no overlap between the co-anchors' romance and their respective marriages.
"This was two consenting adults who were each separated. They both broke up with their spouses in August within weeks of each other," the insider said. "The relationship didn't start until after that."
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