It is not domestic happiness.
As DailyMail.com reported in a sensational exclusive report, TV presenters Amy Robach and TJ Holmes escaped to a cabin in the woods two years ago for a romantic weekend without their husbands.
In the Shawangunk Mountains of New York, they literally couldn’t keep their hands off each other.
But now they are both divorced and the initial flames of passion have long since died out. Amy has admitted that she threw TJ out of their bed in the middle of the night.
And earlier this week, the once emotional couple were spotted bickering, keeping their distance and making no attempt to show affection.
“They are certainly not as in love with each other as they once were,” says a source familiar with the former GMA3 hosts.
Earlier this week, the once happy couple were seen bickering and keeping each other at a distance without attempting to show affection.
In November 2022, GMA co-host Holmes couldn’t keep his hands off Robach as the couple spent a weekend at a cozy cottage in the Shawangunk Mountains. DailyMail.com exclusively reported
The co-hosts, whose on-screen chemistry had captivated audiences since their appearance on the third hour of GMA, were seen laughing and cozying up at the pub after a morning of filming.
“I know this is common in relationships, but Amy needs to think about it given TJ’s past.
“A lot is still uncertain: whether they will actually move in together, since they have separate apartments, how they will regulate their relationship with their children and when – or whether they even want to get married at some point.”
On Thursday, Robach, 51, revealed that she forced Holmes, 46, to get up in the early hours of the morning because he insisted on turning up the volume on his bedroom television to watch the women’s Olympic swimming marathon – a two-hour, grueling competition that began at 1:30 a.m.
This happened just two days after they were spotted engaging in a tense conversation on the streets of New York on their way home from the gym.
The once-in-love couple broadcasts their podcast “Tea from Paris” every day – live from the dining table in TJ’s New York apartment, while his washing machine roars in the background.
This is quite different from the last Olympics, when Amy excitedly posted Instagram pictures from Tokyo, where she covered the quadrennial sporting spectacle for ABC.
It is not even close to how their affair began six months before it became public knowledge, when they were away from their husbands in London to cover Queen Elizabeth’s Platinum Jubilee.
This year, like the rest of us, she has to watch the games on television, while her former colleague Janai Norman reports for the channel from France.
Amy, 51, gestured wildly as they spoke, while TJ, 46, wore a stony expression when he couldn’t get close to her face.
Amy Robach and TJ Holmes looked like they were in the middle of a tense conversation when they were spotted in New York City on Tuesday
And on the 13th day of her personal marathon, Robach had enough of her lover’s Olympic television and complained about the volume of the device.
“So he turned it on while we were both laying there, and usually we all know TJ likes to have the TV on, and usually I can sing it out loud.
“But for some reason I couldn’t go back to sleep because of that comment, so you had to go to the other room.”
TJ argued that he had to watch every minute of swimming in the Seine.
“It’s a sport where there isn’t constant action. There is action, but it’s a bit like a NASCAR race. At some point you think they’re just going around in circles.”
“You really have to pay attention to the nuances, and I had to have all the nuances explained to me,” he explained.
Robach interjected: “So you had to turn the volume up and I said, ‘Honey, can you turn the volume down?’ So you just left the room.”
According to Holmes, even the thought of cuddling with his lover was not a great temptation – he never slipped under the sheets again.
It wasn’t long ago that Robach and Holmes couldn’t get enough of each other. Pictures obtained by DailyMail.com in November 2022 show the couple on a romantic trip to the north of the state.
Taken at the height of their then-secret affair, Holmes couldn’t even watch Robach load a car trunk without grabbing her ass.
Now he is banished from his own bed.
The podcasters were first seen publicly on the P DA while enjoying a Christmas break in Miami in December 2022
This glimpse into the reality of the couple’s day-to-day dynamic came shortly after Robach’s on-air admission that she hit rock bottom after her affair became public.
Two years ago, they were both married – she to 57-year-old Melrose Place actor Andrew Shue and he to 46-year-old lawyer Marilee Fiebig – when DailyMail.com published exclusive photos of the couple getting physical in a Manhattan bar, holding hands in an Uber and enjoying a weekend in the upstate.
In an unexpected twist to the hot story, it was revealed last December that Shue and Fiebig are now a couple.
According to insiders, the two have been together for about eight months after realizing that their connection went much deeper than a shared understanding of their spouses’ betrayal.
But while the romance between Shue and Fiebig continues to grow stronger, exclusive images obtained by DailyMail.com this week suggest that the once budding romance between Robach and Holmes has wilted.
Robach has every reason to be concerned. Holmes had at least three other affairs with co-workers during her employment at ABC. One of them was with a 24-year-old intern who looked up to the then 37-year-old as a mentor.
Robach and Holmes, who have not yet moved in together, appeared tense and irritable after a workout at their regular Manhattan gym earlier this week.
Holmes, who walked side by side without touching, wore a gray T-shirt and blue pants, while Amy wore a black tank top and khaki pants. The engagement ring she received from Holmes, threaded through a Tiffany chain, was clearly visible on her neck.
Amy, 51, could be seen gesticulating wildly as they spoke, while TJ, 46, looked stony-faced when he wasn’t getting too close to her.
So is the TV affair of the decade cooling off? With TJ and Amy, only time will tell.
