<p style="margin: 0px 0px 15px; vertical-align: baseline; color: #777777; font-family: 'Open Sans', sans-serif; font-size: 15px; background-color: #ffffff;">ABC s T.J. Holmes says it s been a great week in aftermath of affair with co-host being exposed</p>
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<p style="margin: 0px 0px 15px; vertical-align: baseline; color: #777777; font-family: 'Open Sans', sans-serif; font-size: 15px; background-color: #ffffff;">ABC News hosts T.J. Holmes and Amy Robach s&nbsp;extramarital affair continues to cause problems for the Disney-owned network as the lovebirds remain benched this week while the network conducts an internal review, Fox News Digital has learned.&nbsp;</p>
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<p style="margin: 0px 0px 15px; vertical-align: baseline; color: #777777; font-family: 'Open Sans', sans-serif; font-size: 15px; background-color: #ffffff;">Holmes and Robach, who co-host GMA, a midday extension of the network&rsquo;s flagship show Good Morning America, have been sidelined for the past week as reports about their infidelity dominate industry gossip and tabloid news. It has been nearly two weeks since their steamy affair was revealed, and the public relations debacle doesn&rsquo;t appear to be going away anytime soon as it graced the New York Post s cover as recently as Sunday.&nbsp;</p>
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<p style="margin: 0px 0px 15px; vertical-align: baseline; color: #777777; font-family: 'Open Sans', sans-serif; font-size: 15px; background-color: #ffffff;">ABC&nbsp;insiders initially insisted&nbsp;that Holmes and Robach would not be disciplined for their affair, but the couple then appeared to downplay the scandal on air Dec. while joking about having a great week. By the weekend, ABC News President Kim Godwin informed staffers the distraction had become too significant, and she pulled them off the air while we figure this out. &nbsp;</p>
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<p style="margin: 0px 0px 15px; vertical-align: baseline; color: #777777; font-family: 'Open Sans', sans-serif; font-size: 15px; background-color: #ffffff;">Holmes and Robach will have missed six straight episodes of GMA as of Monday. A rotating group of anchors will continue to fill in pending the completion of Godwin s probe, according to a memo sent to staffers.&nbsp;</p>
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<p style="margin: 0px 0px 15px; vertical-align: baseline; color: #777777; font-family: 'Open Sans', sans-serif; font-size: 15px; background-color: #ffffff;">Industry insiders believe parent company Disney stepped in when the scandalous tabloid fodder became reputation-mangling national news, and the New York Post reported executives were very unhappy that Holmes and Robach appeared to make light of the situation on air before they were sidelined.&nbsp;</p>
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<p style="margin: 0px 0px 15px; vertical-align: baseline; color: #777777; font-family: 'Open Sans', sans-serif; font-size: 15px; background-color: #ffffff;">As of Friday, an ABC News source indicated nothing has been resolved and network executives were still investigating the matter. ABC News did not respond to multiple requests for comment on Monday.&nbsp;</p>
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<p style="margin: 0px 0px 15px; vertical-align: baseline; color: #777777; font-family: 'Open Sans', sans-serif; font-size: 15px; background-color: #ffffff;">Holmes and Robach have been locked in a passionate romance despite both being married to their respective spouses for the past years, the Daily Mail reported last month in a story that included several intimate photos of the midday anchors taken throughout November.&nbsp;There has since been widespread speculation about who tipped off the Daily Mail about the extramarital affair. Some believe that someone inside ABC wanted to put an end to the unprofessional situation.&nbsp;</p>
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<p style="margin: 0px 0px 15px; vertical-align: baseline; color: #777777; font-family: 'Open Sans', sans-serif; font-size: 15px; background-color: #ffffff;">ABC PULLS MARRIED GMA ANCHORS AMY ROBACH, T.J. HOLMES OFF THE AIR AS EXTRAMARITAL AFFAIR CAUSES DISTRACTION</p>
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<p style="margin: 0px 0px 15px; vertical-align: baseline; color: #777777; font-family: 'Open Sans', sans-serif; font-size: 15px; background-color: #ffffff;">The Post followed with a series of bombshell exclusive reports, indicating that Holmes may have cheated on his wife with multiple ABC News staffers with no shame. &nbsp;</p>
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<p style="margin: 0px 0px 15px; vertical-align: baseline; color: #777777; font-family: 'Open Sans', sans-serif; font-size: 15px; background-color: #ffffff;">A former GMA executive recently told Fox News Digital that Holmes and Robach might not return at all.</p>
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<p style="margin: 0px 0px 15px; vertical-align: baseline; color: #777777; font-family: 'Open Sans', sans-serif; font-size: 15px; background-color: #ffffff;">The broken marriages and the cheating, including reports that T.J. had another affair with a different &lsquo;GMA&rsquo; colleague, is unseemly and embarrassing and a gross violation of core Disney values, the former ABC News honcho said.&nbsp;</p>
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<p style="margin: 0px 0px 15px; vertical-align: baseline; color: #777777; font-family: 'Open Sans', sans-serif; font-size: 15px; background-color: #ffffff;">Robach has been married to former Melrose Place star Andrew Shue for years, while Holmes has been married to Marilee Fiebig since . Both marriages are reportedly ending.&nbsp;</p>
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<p style="margin: 0px 0px 15px; vertical-align: baseline; color: #777777; font-family: 'Open Sans', sans-serif; font-size: 15px; background-color: #ffffff;">Mornings co-host Gayle King recently called the scandal inside the rival network very messy and very sloppy, and expressed concern for the children involved.</p>
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<p style="margin: 0px 0px 15px; vertical-align: baseline; color: #777777; font-family: 'Open Sans', sans-serif; font-size: 15px; background-color: #ffffff;">In the beginning I actually thought good on &lsquo;Good Morning America,&rsquo; they&rsquo;re not taking them off the air, two consenting adults, but then the more you read, it s just very messy, and I think, to me, it s a sad situation. You ve got kids involved, you ve got families involved, and I keep thinking about that, King told Bravo s Andy Cohen. I m very concerned about that.</p>
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<p style="margin: 0px 0px 15px; vertical-align: baseline; color: #777777; font-family: 'Open Sans', sans-serif; font-size: 15px; background-color: #ffffff;">Until Robach became tabloid fodder, she was perhaps best known as the ABC News anchor caught on a hot mic claiming executives at the Disney-owned network refused to air a story that would have exposed the now-deceased sex offender Jeffrey Epstein three years before it was reported. ABC News downplayed the significance of the video at the time, telling Fox News Digital that the Epstein story wasn&rsquo;t fit to air.</p>