TJ Holmes and Amy Robach defend David Muir after he was slammed for reporting on LA fires with a pinned jacket

TJ Holmes and Amy Robach defend David Muir after he was criticized for using clothespins, presumably to get a more flattering fit on the firefighter jacket he was wearing.

This all happened while Muir was covering the deadly Palisades fire in Los Angeles. As he turned and pointed to the burned-out remains of a house, clothespins could be seen stuck in the firefighter’s jacket he was wearing.

He has been widely criticized for appearing vain in times of tragedy. But Holmes and Robach see it differently based on their experience.

“The perspective may be missing if all you’re doing is reading tweets,” Holmes said during Friday’s episode of their podcast: Does this make me look fat?

‘The perspective may be missing because often – and I don’t know if he does – you’re traveling with a producer or even a wardrobe person whose job it is – you might be looking at your phone, getting the latest news, looking at notes or doing something, and people are pulling and plugging things into you, the microphone and the IFB [in-ear monitor] and all these things,” Holmes explained.

“You don’t even know what’s happening to you, and someone could have decided, ‘Let me do this to the jacket.’ We don’t know.’

He continued: ‘But just a little context: the man is working his ass off. You don’t like what he did, that’s fine. It’s just a lot to pile on.”

Robach added that when reporting from the scene of a disaster or terrible crime, she tried her best not to look “too glamorous.”

“As a journalist, I’ve been very careful not to seem concerned about how I look at that moment,” she said.

“We all look different at the scene of these kinds of tragedies than we do on set. On set we have hair and makeup and nice suits and appropriate clothes, but when you’re out there it’s just a completely different environment,” she added.

She also defended Muir from the insane hate he received because of the fit of his jacket.

“I don’t think he deserves the hate he’s getting… I don’t think that’s fair or appropriate in any way – especially from people who have never had to be on television every day where your image, your appearance is constantly changing. being criticized or acknowledged so you may be hyper-aware of that,” she said.

However, Holmes believes it looks bad when a TV journalist is caught in the middle of a tragedy worrying about the fit of his jacket.

“The idea that people – even though they are in the middle of a tragedy – who are about to host a main evening broadcast don’t care about their appearance is just unreasonable,” he said.

As he turned and pointed to the burned-out remains of a house, clothespins could be seen stuck in the firefighter jacket he was wearing.

This all happened while Muir was covering the deadly Palisades fire in Los Angeles. Holmes and Robach seen here on December 13, 2024

Muir has been widely criticized for appearing vain in times of tragedy

‘To what extent they care is the question and to what extent should they appear as if they care is a separate issue, but of course he has to care and pay attention to how he looks before he goes on TV . Holmes said.

“But when your house is on fire and you see a man standing there with a mirror brushing his hair doing all this before he goes on air and reporting on your tragedy, you get angry.”

What Holmes, Robach and the general public who speak out about Muir’s so-called vanity miss, however, is the fact that he reported from an area with extremely high winds.

If his jacket were to blow in the wind, it would interfere with the sound of his voice on the broadcast.

But logic didn’t prevail in this case, with Megyn Kelly adding her opinion to the fray.

“The despicable vanity of this man,” Kelly said Thursday on her SiriusXM podcast The Megyn Kelly Show.

‘Yes, he is an actor who worries about his own vanity and beauty in front of the camera. God forbid you think David Muir might be a little round around the waist.”

“This isn’t dress-up time… That’s something my little boys did when they were in the grades… not on the news when people are dying,” she added. ‘What are you doing?’

But Holmes and Robach see it differently based on their experience

“Perspective may be missing from just reading tweets,” Holmes said

The World News Tonight host may have noticed the reaction when he showed up to the report from LA on Thursday wearing an unzipped jacket that didn’t appear to be tailored to his figure.

It came as the moles at ABC News reported Page six that Muir’s blunder while covering the LA wildfires had left them ‘ashamed and shocked’.

The insiders claimed that Muir’s decision to tie the waist of a fire-retardant jacket with clothespins is par for the course for the “narcissistic” anchor.

‘It’s sad. All tense muscles and posing,” a source said, referring to how Muir’s Instagram feed is littered with photos of him in tight, black t-shirts while out in the field.