Amy Robach and T.J. Holmes Break Silence on Affair Allegations

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T.J. Holmes And Amy Robach Are Red Carpet Official

Amy Robach and T.J. Holmes privation to acceptable the grounds straight.

The former GMA3 cohosts—whose romance became the center of controversy erstwhile they were photographed during a getaway successful November 2022—are detailing their narration for the archetypal time, sharing that it's been a "year of hell."

"To beryllium clear, we were outed arsenic being successful a relationship," T.J. said during the Dec. 5 premiere of their self-titled podcast, "but everyone other thought we were being outed arsenic adulterous, being outed arsenic cheating connected our spouses and it wasn't the case. Because the unusual happening is that the time those pictures were taken and the time that nonfiction was released, we had both, astatine that point, been successful divorcement proceedings."

The couple, who precocious made their reddish carpet debut, archetypal sparked romance rumors past autumn aft they were photographed unneurotic connected a travel successful Upstate New York. At the time, they were legally joined to different people: Amy to Melrose Place alum Andrew Shue (they finalized their divorce successful March) and T.J. to lawyer Marilee Fiebig (who settled their divorce successful October).

As Amy explained of her divided astatine the time the photos were taken, "It was 1 of those things wherever everyone successful my choky ellipse knew I was getting divorced. I took my ringing disconnected aboriginal August. It was precise wide to anyone who knew maine that I was successful the mediate of a divorce. T.J. is simply a overmuch much backstage idiosyncratic than maine and conscionable chose to support that to himself."

"But it was hard," she continued, "because anyone who was a spectator oregon anyone extracurricular of a precise tiny ellipse didn't cognize that either 1 of america were getting divorced, truthful that was 1 of the challenges we had successful the beginning. We were trying to wide everything up."

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T.J. went connected to enactment that helium didn't deliberation to stock quality of his narration with Amy close away, arsenic helium was inactive navigating the aspects of his divided wrong his family.

"My daughter, I mean she's 10," the TV anchor said of his girl Sabine. "I was inactive trying to get her adjusted to her caller world of her parents not being together."

T.J.—who, on with Amy, was replaced astatine the greeting show aft their narration came to light—added that helium didn't archer his family, including his ma astir the divided from his ex.

"So wherefore the hellhole americium I reasoning astir telling an executive and the web astir it?" helium noted. "So that's wherever our heads were. In hindsight, sure, possibly we screwed up."

(T.J.'s ex Marilee previously slammed her ex for his "lack of discretion" amid his caller romance. Meanwhile, Andrew has not addressed his divided publicly.)

The erstwhile ABC cohosts besides recalled the contention taking its toll connected them arsenic individuals and the imaginable effect successful had connected their careers, with Amy detailing an lawsuit erstwhile she rushed implicit to T.J.'s flat aft receiving a concerning substance from him and that, she herself, astatine times she "didn't privation to get up."

"To consciousness like, you know, who is inactive down me? Who supports me? Will I enactment again? Will I ever beryllium trusted again?" she explained. "Will radical judge what truly happened versus what radical person written happened? And those were each things that we had to spell done and woody with and I volition accidental that I felt highly fortunate that we had each other."

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O.J. Simpson Is Acquitted

For those who had travel of property by 1995, that year was each astir watching the beloved NFL running backmost basal proceedings for the gruesome execution of his estranged woman Nicole Brown Simpson and her friend Ron Goldman a twelvemonth earlier. Even '80s babies tin callback the highlights: the slow-moving achromatic Bronco, Marcia Clark's unnecessarily dissected hairstyles and the information that, arsenic defence attorney Johnnie Cochran bellowed, the transgression country mitt didn't fit, leaving a assemblage of the athlete's peers to determine they indispensable acquit. 

A 4th century later you'd beryllium hard-pressed to find idiosyncratic who doesn't clasp a beardown sentiment astir Simpson's guilt oregon innocence. One of the astir talked astir scandals, not conscionable successful Hollywood, wherever it was breached down in FX's 10-part 2016 anthology, but of each clip anywhere it's a prime illustration of our obsession with existent crime as good arsenic a fascinating lawsuit survey successful contention relations that remains all excessively applicable today.  

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Michael Jackson Goes to Trial

Perhaps adjacent much of a circus than the nine-month Simpson case, the King of Pop's 2005 proceedings saw him facing the arsenic superior charges of kid molestation. Playing to the crowd, astatine 1 constituent adjacent hopping atop a car to question to fans, helium was eventually found not guilty, but his estimation ne'er afloat rebounded arsenic helium fell from euphony superstardom to not-all-that-funny punchline. A decennary aft his untimely 2009 decease (which, successful itself, led to a tribunal case), helium was tried erstwhile again successful the tribunal of nationalist opinion acknowledgment to the Wade Robson and James Safechuck-led documentary Leaving Neverland, repeatedly denounced by his estate.  

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Bill Clinton Has an "Improper" Relationship

Maybe if the then-president hadn't fibbed astir having "sexual relations with that woman," we all could person been spared the 1998 expansive assemblage probe into his dalliance with White House intern Monica Lewinsky and the consequent impeachment trial. Instead, it's each seared into our memories: Ken Starr's report, the stained bluish formal and however the bulk of the ire was someway directed toward the women involved. Having withstood the endless sexist attacks, Lewinsky is present an advocator for victims of bullying, portion Hillary Clinton, maligned for choosing to remain married, came thisclose to her ain stint successful the Oval Office. 

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The Rise and Fall of Brangelina

The opening was shocking. Those April 2005 photos connected that Kenyan beach confirming what had been gossiped astir since Brad Pitt's large divided from wife Jennifer Aniston three months earlier—he was, successful fact, dating his Mr. and Mrs. Smith costar Angelina Jolie. For months, each caller improvement successful their romance seemed much jaw-dropping than the next: that W mag "Domestic Bliss" sprout that near Aniston declaring her ex was missing a "sensitivity chip", Jolie's January 2006 gestation announcement, the Team Jen vs .Team Angelina of it all.

And conscionable erstwhile we'd each gotten utilized to 2 of the world's sexiest movie stars being a happily peripatetic household of six, had astir forgotten their less-than-savory origins, it was abruptly each over, the erstwhile madly successful emotion brace leaving a way of rumors, custody battles and tales of throwdowns astatine 35,000 feet successful their wake. Like we said, shocking.

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Lance's Legacy Comes Crashing Down

At 1 constituent in the mid-2000s it was uncommon to spot a wrist not laden with 1 of those yellow rubber Livestrong bracelets. That's however overmuch the federation was rooting for champion cyclist and crab subsister Lance Armstrong. Then, with one 2012 report, helium crashed hard, the U.S. Anti-Doping Agency declaring him the ringleader of "the astir sophisticated, professionalized and palmy doping program that athletics has ever seen". After months of nationalist denials, helium copped to the blood-doping, was stripped of his 7 Tour de France titles, banned from the sport, ordered to repay millions successful prize wealth and endorsements and adjacent endured a nationalist lingua lashing from Oprah Winfrey. Now, you tin relive the particulars with ESPN's caller docuseries Lance. It's rather the ride. 

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Hugh Grant Has a Divine Intervention

It's a testament to conscionable however charming the everlastingly fumbling British histrion is that helium escaped from this 1 comparatively unscathed. After the Four Weddings and a Funeral prima was arrested for picking up prostitute Divine Brown that summertime time successful 1995, his sheepish mug changeable plastered crossed the nightly news, helium reported to The Tonight Show With Jay Leno and offered a afloat mea culpa. Even then-girlfriend Elizabeth Hurley forgave his misdeed, the brace remaining friends to this day. "I was conscionable an idiot," helium reflected to People successful 2018. "I didn't effort to say, 'I've got this intelligence problem.' I conscionable said, 'I did it.'"

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Winona Snags a Discount

Coming disconnected a decade's worthy of hits (Beetlejuice, Heathers, Girl, Interrupted) 1 wouldn't deliberation '90s It prima Winona Ryder required help obtaining designer wares. And yet determination she was being busted astatine a Beverly Hills Saks Fifth Avenue for shoplifting immoderate $5,500 of goods successful December 2001. Entirely chaotic astatine the time, we'd person to hold with her 2016 assertion that it "wasn't similar the transgression of the century!" Instead, aft a six-day proceedings and a blameworthy verdict for expansive theft and vandalism, it provided the impetus for Ryder's impermanent flight from Hollywood. "Psychologically, I indispensable person been astatine a spot wherever I conscionable wanted to stop. I won't get into what happened, but it wasn't what radical think," the actress, present scaring up accolades on Netflix's Stranger Things told Porter Magazine. "It allowed maine clip that I truly needed."

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Kristen and Rob’s Fairytale Unravels

Ah, young love. Perhaps it was unfair to presume Robert Pattinson and Kristen Stewart would stay arsenic eternally entwined as Edward Cullen and Bella Swan.

But that didn't marque the quality of her 2012 dalliance with joined Snow White and the Huntsman manager Rupert Sanders immoderate little startling, peculiarly erstwhile the study came with photographic evidence. (Though, arsenic she would marque wide successful a 2019 interview with Howard Stern the matter didn't widen beyond kissing and immoderate reasonably PG cuddling: "I did not f--k him.")

Following the then-22-year-old's apology, the Twilight mates formerly known arsenic Robsten attempted a sequel, but it became wide their emotion communicative was champion reserved for the metallic screen. 

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Tiger Hits the Rough

Few facades crumbled rather arsenic accelerated oregon arsenic spectacularly arsenic Tiger Woods'. A kid play phenom turned beloved sports icon and entirely likable father of two, helium was four victories distant from besting Jack Nicklaus' grounds of 18 large rubric wins successful 2009 erstwhile quality emerged implicit Thanksgiving weekend that he'd crashed his Escalade into a tree outside the Florida mansion helium shared with woman Elin Nordegren.

She's dismissed the fashionable narration that she was successful pursuit with 1 of his clubs, but careless his web of deceit had caught up. Within weeks, 14 lovers had travel guardant with receipts (and, successful 1 case, a saved voicemail) coating a representation of a serial philanderer. 

A nationalist apology and 45 days successful a attraction installation couldn't prevention his five-year marriage, but pursuing respective injury-plagued seasons, helium got backmost successful the plaything of things professionally, nabbing his fifth Masters' greenish overgarment successful 2019. 

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S--t Goes Down successful an Elevator

Cameras are strictly forboden astatine Anna Wintour's yearly Met Gala, but adjacent the astir star-studded drawback couldn't person topped the footage that was released from Jay-Z, Beyoncé and sister Solange's post-afterparty elevator thrust astatine NYC's Standard Hotel.

Though the 2014 surveillance video was alternatively explicit, showing Solange much oregon little losing her s--t connected her brother-in-law arsenic Bey stood motionless, and rumors abound (he'd been flirtatious with decorator Rachel Roy; they'd acceptable up the full happening to beforehand their forthcoming tour), for awhile it seemed we'd ne'er genuinely know what went down successful that elevator. 

Then Queen B dropped Lemonade and abruptly everyone was speculating astir Becky with the bully hair. Though that peculiar enigma remains, Jay straight addressed infidelity chatter with his 4:44 disc, making notation to Halle Berry's cheating ex: "You egged Solange connected / Knowin' each on / All you had to accidental you was incorrect / You astir went Eric Benét / Let the baddest miss successful the satellite get away."

In the end, though, helium kept their powerfulness mates presumption and his narration with Solange intact. "We had 1 disagreement ever," helium said successful a 2017 podcast interview. "Before and after, we've been cool."

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Janet Jackson Gets Exposed

Before the word "wardrobe malfunction" was synonymous with nip-slip and we each agreed to start tacking "gate" onto thing remotely scurrilous, determination was Nipplegate.

Looking back, the five-time Grammy winner's decorated close nipple was exposed for precisely 9/16 of a 2nd erstwhile 2004 Super Bowl Halftime Show duet spouse Justin Timberlake accidentally ripped disconnected much bodice worldly than primitively intended. (In contrast, 15 years later, headliner Adam Levine spent entire songs flashing his plentiful thorax tattoos.)

But the fallout was massive: CBS was fined $550,000 by the FCC (a determination yet overturned) and, successful a head-scratching display of treble standards, an apologetic Timberlake was inactive capable to be CBS' Grammys presumption days later, but Jackson's invitation was promptly rescinded. The network's genitor institution Viacom, meanwhile, had her euphony scrubbed from MTV, VH1 and their vigor stations. As Jackson would archer Oprah Winfrey successful 2006, "I deliberation they did enactment each the accent connected me, arsenic opposed to us."

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Charlie Sheen Starts "Winning!"

For a stretch in 2011 it was beauteous overmuch intolerable to spell anyplace without proceeding the Two and a Half Men alum's signature catchphrase. "Winning!" There was besides speech of tiger blood, Adonis DNA (which helium explained arsenic his crushed for not needing Alcoholics Anonymous oregon different treatment) , a 20-city Torpedo of Truth circuit and a full lotta disorder astir what precisely was going connected there. TBH, we're inactive not wholly definite and it's not wide if Sheen is either. "I deliberation it's important that radical spot that I spot and I consciousness that that was conscionable 1 brainsick chapter," helium said connected Today aboriginal that year, "one weird phase, and that I was this feline earlier it started and I tin beryllium that feline again afterwards."

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Milli Vanilli End connected a Sour Note

Girl, you cognize it's true that astatine 1 constituent the German R&B duo of Rob Pilatus and Fab Morvan seemed primed to regularisation the satellite of popular euphony until a grounds skip during a unrecorded show connected MTV exposed the truth: they'd been lip-synching the full time. "I knew close past and there, it was the opening of the extremity for Milli Vanilli," Pilatus told the Los Angeles Times successful November 1990. Stripped of their 1990 Best New Artist Grammy, they attempted to beryllium their singing chops with the 1993 merchandise Rob & Fab, but it sold conscionable 2,000 copies. Pilatus was aboriginal recovered dormant of a suspected overdose successful a Munich edifice country successful April 1998, the nighttime earlier they were acceptable to tour successful enactment of their comeback disc, Back and In Attack.  

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Brittany Murphy's Truly Bizarre Passing

In the 10-plus years since her shocking death, fascination into the wherefore of it each hasn't waned 1 bit. Drugs? Toxic mold? Poison? Foul play? All were weighed arsenic options successful the months and years aft the 32-year-old abruptly perished conscionable earlier Christmas successful 2009. The authoritative autopsy labeled the origin arsenic pneumonia, anemia and aggregate cause intoxication, but enough genuinely bizarre twists and turns followed to origin each sorts of tenable doubt. 

Her seemingly out-of-nowhere matrimony to Brit Simon Monjack was considered with suspicion until the writer-director-photographer died from the nonstop aforesaid origin conscionable 5 months later, the actress' ma Sharon Murphy claiming he'd died of a breached heart. And while the Clueless star's dad Angelo Bertolotti presented a compelling statement astir the anticipation of dense metals poisoning earlier his 2019 death, her ma blocked immoderate accidental of exhuming her assemblage until it was excessively late. Officially, the lawsuit is closed, but speculation lives on. 

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Jon & Kate Divide

On the 2007 premiere of TLC's Jon & Kate Plus 8, laid-back erstwhile I.T. specializer Jon Gosselin and his no-nonsense pediatric caregiver woman Kate Gosselin seemed simply unhappy. But arsenic their ratings soared—a grounds 4.6 cardinal tuned into watch the parents of twins Cady and Mara and sextuplets Collin, Hannah, Alexis, Aaden, Leah and Joel on the 2009 play 4 finale—their narration plummeted.

Jon has since claimed their young emotion was doomed from the start, opining connected The Dr. Oz Show successful 2019, "I deliberation eventually, due to the fact that of personality, it would person fizzled retired anyway," the extremity was much of a catastrophic occurrence out. There were cheating accusations connected some sides (Kate had to contradict a romance with her salt-and-pepper coiffed bodyguard while Jon entertained progressively younger suitors), a ineligible attempt by Jon to artifact filming, vicious custody battles, unfortunate Ed Hardy apparel and truthful galore tabloid covers that nary little than Vanity Fair dubbed them the biggest personage communicative of 2009.

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Two Words: Bill Cosby

His improper behaviour had been discussed for years without immoderate existent repercussions prevention for the five-count civilian suit Andrea Constand brought in 2005 (naming 13 different anonymous women successful the papers) aft a Pennsylvania DA announced they wouldn't determination guardant with her claims that he'd drugged and sexually assaulted her the erstwhile year. It took a 2014 set from Hannibal Buress, successful which the New York comedian called Cosby "a rapist", for his legacy arsenic America's favourite jolly dada to genuinely beryllium supplanted.

From determination immoderate and each puerility illusions were wholly shattered arsenic scores of women came guardant accusing The Cosby Show caput and Jell-O purveyor of intersexual battle dating backmost to the 60s, their stories sharing disturbingly akin details. The statute of limitations having expired connected galore of the 50-plus accusations it was Constand's once-dismissed claims that yet brought the octogenarian to trial. He was sentenced to three to 10 years in 2018 for intersexual battle and, contempt a fewer failed appeals, remains down bars astatine a Pennsylvania maximum information prison. 

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Also: Harvey Weinstein

Three years aft Cosby's comeuppance, the mega-producer's cautiously constructed world unspooled. Act 1 saw actress Ashley Judd and respective different women travel guardant with intersexual misconduct allegations successful an October 2017 New York Times article. Act 2 was an onslaught of names—everyone from Rose McGowan to Rosanna Arquette to Gwyneth Paltrow—sharing their tales of however the Hollywood insider utilized his considerable value successful the manufacture to unit them into intersexual acts, each accusation of rape, battle and indecent vulnerability as horrifying as the next. Though helium held retired anticipation for a redemption arc, the now-single dada of five (ex-wife Georgina Chapman announced their separation successful the days aft the Times piece) is presently successful jailhouse serving a 23-year sentence aft a New York assemblage found him guilty on 2 counts: rape successful the 3rd grade and transgression intersexual enactment successful the archetypal degree. 

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Jussie Smollett Gets Attacked, Then Indicted

This 1 is, admittedly, inactive a spot of a head-scratcher. In January 2019, the erstwhile Empire star claimed helium was attacked by 2 achromatic men successful skis masks portion leaving a Subway sandwich store successful Chicago. Police announced they were treating the incidental arsenic a imaginable hatred crime, but three weeks—and scores of nationalist statements of support—later shifted course, saying they were charging the actor with disorderly behaviour for allegedly filing a mendacious constabulary report, a felony complaint that could pb to years successful prison.

A period later, prosecutors dropped each charges, with Smollett telling reporters, "I've been truthful and accordant connected each azygous level since time one." But successful February 2020, aft back-and-forth lawsuits betwixt the histrion and the metropolis of Chicago, helium was indicted erstwhile more, a expansive assemblage charging him with six counts of disorderly behaviour for lying to police. He was found blameworthy and sentenced to 150 days successful prison.

He was released aft six days.

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Aunt Becky Goes to Jail

A small much than a twelvemonth aft Lori Loughlin was implicated successful the Varsity Blues assemblage admittance scandal alongside some 40 different parents, including Felicity Huffman, she and hubby Mossimo Giannulli struck a plea deal. (She pled guilty to 1 number of conspiracy to perpetrate ligament and message fraud; helium pled to 1 number of conspiracy to perpetrate ligament and message fraud and honorable services ligament and message fraud.) Under her statement (subject to tribunal approval), the embattled erstwhile actress, chopped from the last play of Fuller House and her Hallmark Channel gigs has agreed to implicit a two-month jailhouse sentence. 

She was released connected Dec. 28, 2020.

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