ABC weatherman Rob Marciano ‘is abruptly fired’ two years after he was yanked off air and reportedly banned from Good Morning America studio for ‘anger issues’ during marriage breakdown
Longtime ABC weatherman Rob Marciano has reportedly been fired two years after being taken off the air due to anger management issues.
Marciano appeared on Good Morning America until he disappeared in March 2022 amid the breakup of his marriage to ex-wife Eryn Marciano.
He was ‘banned’ from the studio after an incident with a female colleague and made several colleagues ‘feel uncomfortable’ around him.
After a month off the air, he was reassigned to ABC’s World News Tonight, which records from a different studio and reports from the field.
However, he was fired on Tuesday after two years of exile from the flagship morning show, The New York Post claimed.
Longtime ABC weatherman Rob Marciano has reportedly been fired two years after being taken off the air due to anger management issues
Marciano hosted Good Morning America until he disappeared in March 2022 amid the breakup of his marriage to ex-wife Eryn Marciano
Why he was dumped now is unknown and neither he nor ABC commented.
Marciano’s latest report was published Sunday, a “reporter’s notebook” from Shreveport, Louisiana, a year after a massive storm that now reads like his epitaph.
He reposted weather reports from ABC News to his Instagram Stories on Tuesday morning, which is still visible, indicating the fire may have been sudden.
Marciano was initially suspended for a month, but GMA executive producer Simone Swink kept him banned from the studio indefinitely.
“It was determined that he had done something inappropriate, but he was punished for it and they still wouldn’t let him return,” a source told the paper. After last year.
‘He made people feel uncomfortable. There was a period where there were some problems, some alarming events,” a second source claimed.
‘There were times when [Marciano] was very grumpy and angry… unsavory behavior on his part. He was taken away to deal with it and he’s back.”
Marciano on the set of GMA in 2019 before being banned from the studio in 2022
Eryn Marciano filed for divorce on June 18, 2021, and they co-parent their children Madelynn, 12, and Mason, 6
Swink reportedly viewed Marciano’s problems as a “distraction” from the show’s news-gathering mission and refused to allow him back into the studio.
Eryn Marciano filed for divorce on June 18, 2021, and the breakup lasted well into 2022, with their lawyers exchanging legal salvos.
“The last few years have been very difficult,” Marciano said at the time.
‘I didn’t want this and tried to save the marriage, but unfortunately we are divorcing. My focus now is on my children.’
They were married for 11 years and co-parent their children Madelynn, 12, and Mason, 6.