Life is one long vacation these days for TJ Holmes and Amy Robach and as they approach a year since their on-screen chemistry crackled into a full-blown affair, it’s clear they still can’t keep their hands – or their lips – to themselves. from eachother.
These exclusive photos from DailyMail.com show the controversial couple taking to the heat in the holiday sun this weekend when they were spotted cuddling over lunch and drinks at Seville Spanish restaurant in Manhattan’s West Village.
Robach ran her hand up and down his arm and thigh, seeming more hungry for her husband than for anything on the menu.
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Hands on! TJ Holmes and Amy Robach turned up the heat this holiday weekend at the Seville restaurant in Manhattan’s West Village, where they leaned in for passionate hugs several times during their lunch
Those two are nothing short of sizzling. It’s almost embarrassing to see them together. I practically have to fan myself,” said a source
Cheers! The co-hosts-turned-lovers enjoyed Memorial Day Weekend on Monday with some drinks in the sun in Manhattan’s West Village
The couple, whose scandalous affair has left both their marriage and their on-screen careers in shambles, is still going strong. Exclusive DailyMail.com photos show Amy still wearing the David Yurman pledge Holmes gifted her for her 50th birthday, looped through a Tiffany gold chain around her neck
Those two are nothing short of sizzling. It’s almost embarrassing to see them together. I practically have to fan myself,” said a source.
It’s been six months since DailyMail.com broke the bombshell of the affair that has left their careers and their marriages – she to Melrose Place actor Andrew Shue, he to attorney Marilee Fiebig – in tatters
The exit deals that were eventually negotiated with ABC mean that neither of them can take on another hosting role for a year.
But Holmes and Robach clearly weren’t fazed by the enforced hiatus this weekend as they positively basked in the glow of romance that shook the nation.
Fitness junkie Robach, 50, looked happy and toned in sky blue shorts and a cotton sun top.
David Yurman’s $650 promise ring, gifted to her by Holmes for her fiftieth birthday in February and strung on a Tiffany gold chain, dangled around her neck, glistening in the sun.
The two were spotted on their lunch date scanning the restaurant’s menu, but it seemed Robach was more hungry for her husband than for anything on the menu.
Photos show the 50-year-old running her hand up and down Holmes’ arm and thigh as they order their food
Robach, 50, looked happily in love and showed off her toned legs in a pair of sky blue shorts which she paired with a patterned cotton sleeveless top
She also still wore the gold Tiffany’s chain around the $650 David Yurman ring she received from her lover in February for her 50th birthday. Holmes was also casually dressed in a crisp button-up shirt, navy trousers and boat shoes
Forty-five-year-old Holmes wore navy trousers, deck shoes, and a pale blue shirt, untucked and open at the neck as they sauntered hand in hand, fingers intertwined.
They walked to a restaurant in the West Village where they sat outside toasting, eating lunch and giving passionate kisses.
The source said, “They were so on fire at first — that photo you had with his hand stroking her a** while they were packing up their car. We thought it would burn out after a year.
“But I think their spark is more than just good old sexual chemistry.” They’re on the same wavelength in so many ways.”
Indeed, to prove the cynics wrong, Holmes and Robach still can’t keep their hands off each other.
Sources tell DailyMail.com that whether it’s working out, running or just running errands together, the couple have been virtually inseparable since their affair came to light.
Holmes’s divorce from Fiebig, with whom he has a daughter, is about to be finalized.
Many had doubted the couple’s exciting relationship would survive the turbulence that blew up around their secret romantic getaway last year
Instead, the pair have so far proved the cynics wrong as they have been virtually inseparable since their affair came to light.
Unlike last year, this summer the ex-GMA stars don’t have to worry about hiding their love from the public and happily stroll through the streets holding hands with their fingers intertwined
And with the lease on his Manhattan apartment due for renewal at the end of the summer, DailyMail.com has learned that the former co-stars turned lovers are eager to embark on the next phase of their lives and together to go live.
Robach and Shue – who each have children from previous marriages – finalized their divorce in March after working out their agreement privately through mediation and reaching a custody agreement over their beloved Maltipoo, Brody.
Their official split came nearly a year ago, last August, after 56-year-old Shue learned of his wife’s affair and moved out of their West Village apartment.
According to sources, what started as a professional friendship grew into something more when Holmes and Robach were sent to London last June to cover the Queen’s Diamond Jubilee.
Months later, in December, just days after the story of the affair broke, Robach was seen leaving the house as her parents came to help.
Robach and Shue bought the three-bedroom, two-bath Barrow Street property for $4 million in 2018, according to ET.
Robach and her actor husband Andrew Shue, 55, who had been married since 2010, quietly finalized the terms of their divorce in March. His last appearance on his wife’s Instagram account was on July 30, 2022 during their holiday in GreeceT.J. and his wife Marilee Fiebig are about to finalize their divorce after 13 years of marriage
The apartment was reportedly put back on the market in September and sold for $5.2 million in November, just before the clandestine relationship came to light.
Since then, Robach has moved into a co-op in the village, but he is often seen in Holmes’ apartment in the financial district where he moved full-time after separating from Fiebig.
Robach and Holmes were officially pulled off ABC’s airwaves for good in late January after the network’s internal review into their affair extended their eight-week suspension.
DailyMail.com obtained a copy of the email sent by the bosses to GMA staff, which stated that “after several productive conversations” it was agreed that it was best for the pair to “continue at ABC News.” .
Network executives said they were grateful to both of them for their years at ABC, but were eager to move on. Private sources said executives believed Robach and Holmes had waited too long to disclose their relationship, leaving staff “uncomfortable” with “their behavior on set.”
Reports also indicated that Robach walked away with a larger settlement than Holmes, as she had been with the network two years longer than Holmes and had a higher profile in it.