Photos showing Amy Robach and T.J. Holmes cuddling up in a pub and holding hands in a car while on vacation in upstate New York surfaced on Wednesday.
According to a source, Amy Robach and T.J. Holmes didn't start dating until they were divorced from their wives.
The couple's connection was made known to the world on Wednesday after images of them cuddling in a bar and holding hands in a car while on vacation in upstate New York appeared online. Hours afterwards, they both deleted their Instagram accounts.
The Good Morning America co-anchors' romance and their respective marriages, according to the source, did not intersect.
"This involved two independent individuals who gave their consent. Within a few weeks of one another in August, they both ended their marriages "The source continues. "Only after that did the relationship begin."
While Holmes, 45, is married to lawyer Marilee Fiebig, Robach, 49, is married to actor Andrew Shue. Both unions took place in 2010.
the source is continued: "She has nothing to conceal. After that, they both felt very at ease dating in public because they were separated. Even their spouses had relocated! They weren't concealing anything, then."
Also according to the insider, Robach intends to appear on television Thursday morning.
A different source previously told PEOPLE that despite the couple's connection having been on display in the newsroom for some time, Holmes and Robach's GMA coworkers were slightly taken aback by the latest photographs.
That person stated, "There were suspicions they were having an affair around a year ago. "Due to the obvious attachment between them, many people thought there might be some truth to it. However, since they consistently claimed to be in a happy marriage, everyone ultimately put it down to friendship."
In 2014, Holmes joined the GMA crew, and the two quickly became good friends. She previously revealed their friendship to PEOPLE. "Hey, we want to hire a co-anchor, they announced. How do you feel about T.J. Holmes? I also nearly fell out of my chair "She spoke.
"My God. We've been trying to find a way to cooperate for literally the last five years, so you couldn't have chosen a better person to ask me what I thought about."
Robach also discussed their double dates with Shue and Fiebig with PEOPLE. "I feel like we just clicked the second he started working at ABC. We've had a tonne of double dates, and my girls have watched his daughters while we were away."
The most recent images don't mark the first time Holmes and Robach have been sighted together in public. Robach posted a picture of Holmes and herself in April 2021 while they were practising for a marathon on the streets of New York.
