Amy Robach was reportedly a frontrunner to replace Deborah Norville on“Inside Edition”back in 2025, a role that eventually went to ABC News correspondent Eva Pilgrim. But according to a Page Six source, Robach wasn’t scrambling for the chair. She reportedly declined multiple job offers after her ABC exit, and the reason was simple: the deals didn’t include her fiancé, T.J. Holmes.
The couple’s history makes the decision complicated. ABC pulled them off the air in December 2022 while the network investigated their relationship, and their departures became official in January 2023. They bounced back with the iHeart podcast“Amy&T.J.”in 2023, and memorably described themselves as“the folks who lost the jobs we love because we love each other.”Since then, they’ve announced an engagement in September 2025 and filed for a marriage license in Arkansas.
Whether you read Robach’s reported choices as devotion or career risk depends on how you’d handle the same tradeoff. She’s betting on a future where the two of them come as a pair. The offers kept coming. She reportedly kept saying no. What would you have done in her position?
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