Amy Robach has revealed she panicked after T.J. Holmes said he needed a break, assuming he meant a break from their relationship.
The former Good Morning America 3 co-anchors left their lucrative roles in 2022 after news leaked they had formed a romantic relationship. Robach and Holmes were both still technically married to their spouses at the time, but it was reported they had each been separated for months before their relationship became public knowledge.
After they departed the show, they started a podcast together titled Amy & T.J. Podcast. Their first episode went live on December 5, 2023, exactly one year after they were taken off the air.
Now in an episode released on Friday, the couple acknowledged that after two years of merging family and work, they may have fallen into an auto-pilot relationship. Recording the podcast while on holiday, they explained they needed some time alone together and shared the moment they had a minor hiccup when Robach misheard what Holmes said.
Newsweek contacted Robach and Holmes for comment via Robach’s email address on Friday.
T.J. Holmes and Amy Robach photographed backstage at iHeartRadio Jingle Ball 2023 at Madison Square Garden on December 8, 2023, in New York City, New York. The couple have spoken about their relationship in an episode of their podcast.
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“The other day you said to me, ‘I need a break with you,’ but when you said that to me my eyes got really wide and you could see—,” Amy started to explain, and when Holmes asked “Why,” she continued: “Because the way that I was interpreting that was, ‘I need a break from you.’ And I think that you—prepositions are important and you always choose your words carefully.
“I sometimes just hear worst-case scenario or whatever. But you recognized it in my eyes and said, ‘I didn’t say I needed a break from you, I said I needed a break from you.”
“So where in that co—where in that one sentence, did you tune out to the point you missed the most important proposition?” Holmes asked.
Robach responded: ” When you hear your boyfriend or the man you love say, ‘I need a break,’ you immediately just go into full-on panic mode.”
When Holmes asked whether she heard the next part of the sentence, Robach said: “No.”
She continued: “You hear nothing else and then you, you’re like ‘What?’ And you go into panic mode, you’re like ‘What did I miss? Wait, what?’ So that actually happened.
“And as soon as you clarified that I had not paid attention to the preposition, I felt relief.”
Holmes then questioned why Robach thought they needed a break.
Robach explained that for the past year, the two of them have been reintroducing their relationship to their children, whom they have been spending all of their spare time with. Robach has two children and a stepson with her ex-husband Tim McIntosh, while Holmes has two children with his ex-wife Amy Fersen.
While Robach said it’s “great,” she doesn’t think she and Holmes have been able to have a date night within that time.
“It really has been awesome but we have not had alone time,” she explained.
Holmes said that while they had recently gone on a trip to Rome together, he explained that the couple only plans trips for themselves when they know all of the kids are going to be busy.
“And I would say, funnily enough, we are together all the time, but either we were with the kids or we were working and we were working a lot—which is great, we love to work—but we didn’t just get to have, like, us time,” Robach said.
“It’s been an interesting thing, I’ve never, you know, we work together and we are in a relationship together. So, it is—and we were friends before as colleagues so it’s a strange thing, you’ve got the work relationship and you’ve got the romantic relationship and the two actually don’t co-exist.
“You know, when we’re in work mode it’s not about our relationship, it’s just been an interesting thing. So when we feel like—we’ve actually said ‘I miss you’ and we’ve been together nonstop.”
With a laugh, Holmes added: “We might be in an autopilot relationship.”
