Chaos at ABC over whether to fire ‘serial cheater’ T.J. Holmes but keep Amy Robach

A week after taking GMA hosts TJ Holmes and Amy Robach off the air, ABC bosses are in crisis, DailyMail.com can reveal

The couple was suspended ‘indefinitely’ on Monday, with Stephanie Ramos, 40, and Gino Benitez, 37, taking their seats on the lunchtime show, GMA 3 What You Need to Know.

But, according to well-placed sources, what the staff needs to know is what the bosses plan to do next.

GMA anchor and newsroom doyen Robin Roberts, 62, is “furious” over the affair which she has called “messy” and “tarnishing the brand.”

Now, DailyMail.com has learned, a frustrated Roberts has taken her concerns to the top, complaining to ABC’s parent company Disney about the lackluster response to the scandal.

Roberts told Holmes and Robach in no uncertain terms to “stop doing it” when he found out about the affair some time ago.

But while the devout Christian Roberts is calling for action, the higher-ups are looking down the barrel of a potential racial storm.

A source explained: “There have been plenty of stories about TJ being a serial cheater with at least one other fling and hints there are more.”

‘But how can they let him go and stay with Amy? They love her and don’t want to lose her. But imagine the possible backlash if they go that route.

‘Let go of the black man and keep the white woman? Seems like the worst kind of double standards and would leave them open to accusations of racism.

A source told DailyMail.com, ‘Kim Godwin [President of News] it’s desperate. She’s just busy making sure her best interests are covered and doesn’t seem to be able to make any decisions. She is not available at all and mostly hides in her office.

According to one, executives may also be afraid of taking a hard line because of the precedent it would set. One said: ‘If Amy and TJ get grounded for their affair, they’re going to have to take a prison bus to the studios to get all the other couples out on ABC!’

In fact, a former ABC producer told DailyMail.com that the newsroom was a “hotbed” for indiscretions and gossip. They said, ‘Honestly, I’ve never worked in a place like this.’

It has also been pointed out that for Disney CEO Bob Iger, who was in New York this week, talking about inter-office relations may be too close for comfort.

Iger, 71, was president of ABC when he met his wife, Willow Bay, 58, a GMA anchor whom he married in 1995, just a year after divorcing his first wife, Susan, 74. .

Holmes came forward for the first time since his suspension on Friday afternoon. In the exclusive DailyMail.com photo, he was dressed casually in black sweats and a jean jacket and carried a Christmas tree stand.

He smiled and waved, acknowledging DailyMail.com as he made his way to his apartment building in New York’s financial district, but declined to comment.

She had a distinctly more jolly figure than her lover Robach, seen walking her goldendoodle, Brody, the day before.

Then an apparently weary Robach told DailyMail.com: “It’s really over.” It was not clear if he was referring to the rage or the relationship that sparked it.

She and Holmes have not been seen together since they were taken off the air despite early claims that they were “openly dating” and determined to “grow their relationship”.

It’s been over a week since DailyMail.com published the story of Holmes and Robach’s affair, a relationship that left their marriages in tatters.

Robach, 49, has been separated from her husband of 12 years, actor Andrew Shue, 55. And Holmes, 45, has been dumped by his long-suffering wife, attorney Marilee Fiebig, 44, with who was also married for 12 years. .

Behind the scenes, ABC insiders admitted they weren’t surprised that Holmes and Robach were an item. But they were “shocked and appalled” by the way it was made public and are angry at the network’s lack of proper response.

As it stands, the net appears clogged with inside information telling DailyMail.com that staff are confused and in the dark ever since Godwin made the decision to take Holmes and Robach off the air.

He made the call after news broke that Holmes had been having a three-year affair with then-married GMA producer Natasha Singh, 37, an illicit relationship that preceded his affair with Robach.

But, the sources say, the silence from above has been deafening ever since.

Rumors that Holmes and Robach were having an affair started online long before the pair began hosting GMA 3 in 2020.

In fact, in 2017, Holmes went to ABC News executives to assure them that her relationship with Robach was purely platonic after learning that the hallways were abuzz with affair rumors.

He told the bosses that this was ‘absolutely false’. As it turns out, Holmes was having an affair at the time, but not with Robach. His affair with producer GMA Singh, one of Robach’s best friends, lasted from 2016 to 2019.

Sources told Page Six that Singh had a huge crush on Holmes, even giving him a key to her apartment when she moved from Los Angeles, which is where she lived when the relationship began, to New York. She has not commented publicly.