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What’s The Big Deal About Amy Robach and T.J. Holmes?

Bev Potter
3 min readDec 15, 2022
The show is over, wave good bye. (Photo by Shadman Sakib on Unsplash)

My officemate, who basically watches YouTube from 9:00 to 5:00, comes to me with all of her big, important entertainment questions.

“What’s the big deal about Amy Robach and T.J. Holmes?”

That’s what I thought, too. So what they’re having an affair? People have affairs all the time — if they get caught by their spouses, that’s their problem.

But of course, the real problem with this particular affair is that Amy and T.J. are/were co-workers.

The problem is that people can’t mind their own goddamn business.

Distraction at the workplace

The official explanation for the demise of Amy and T.J.’s respective careers at Good Morning America is that their messy PDAs were distracting from the news (like people watch GMA for its hard-hitting journalism LOL).

The more likely truth is that (a) no one behind the scenes was getting any work done because all they could talk about was Amy and T.J., and/or (b) people on-set starting complaining to management because they were jealous.

Then throw in (c), that every office is run by the old biddies who have pecked their way to the…

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Bev Potter
Bev Potter

Written by Bev Potter

Legal secretary by day, insomniac by night. Ally. BA, MA. Humor, pop culture, and things that make you think. My weekly-ish newsletter is bevpotter.substack.com

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