TJ Holmes declared that his partner Amy Robach won’t find an engagement ring in her stocking on Christmas, and his lady love said she doesn’t want one.
Holmes, 47, who was injured while running the Chicago Marathon in October, explained why on the couple’s podcast. amy and tj in the episode released on Christmas Day.
Robach, 51, made it clear during the conversation that she wasn’t interested in mixing a marriage proposal with the holiday season.
The couple was discussing the most popular day for marriage proposals, which according to their research was Christmas Day.
‘The truth is that I don’t like sharing holidays with special events. “I like special events to be their own special event,” Robach said.
He later offered some sage advice. “If you have a big proposal on a big holiday, they’ll always take something away from that holiday if it doesn’t work out, just something to consider,” he said.
TJ Holmes and Amy Robach said they wouldn’t get engaged on Christmas Day, even though it seems to be the most popular day for a proposal (pictured in New York City on December 13).
The discussion arose in a Q&A episode, inspired by fans’ questions about their possible future.
“And no, obviously, for anyone wondering, there won’t be a Christmas Day proposal,” Holmes told the audience.
Later in the conversation, the couple, who have been married twice, discussed their previous proposals.
Robach, who was married to former MLB player Tim McIntosh from 1996 to 2008 and actor Andrew Shue from 2010 to 2023, said she had been proposed to in the past on “random days that didn’t matter.”
Holmes, who was married to fellow journalist Amy Ferson from 2004 to 2007 and lawyer Marilee Fiebig from 2010 to 2023, said: “Random and insignificant, I think that’s a way to describe a lot of things.”
In an unusual twist of fate, Shue and Fiebig began dating shortly after breaking up.
They have managed to start a blended family that includes Robach’s daughters, Ava, almost 22, and Analise, 18, from his first marriage, and Holmes’ children, Brianna and Jaiden, from his marriage to Ferson and their daughter Sabine, 11, whom he shares with Fiebig.
Holmes and Robach met while working on the third hour of Good Morning America, and both say their marriages were in trouble before they fell in love.
The couple made the comments on the latest episode of their Amy & TJ podcast, which aired on December 25. “I don’t really like sharing holidays with special events. I like special events to be their own special event,” Robach said.
Robach offered some sage advice. “If you have a big proposal on a big holiday, they’ll always take something away from that holiday if it doesn’t work out, just something to consider,” he said (pictured in Los Angeles). in April)
They were suspended from hosting duties in December 2022 and officially fired in January 2023. The couple launched their podcast in December of the same year.
The partners in love and business said of an upcoming proposal: “It’s not an if, it’s a when” in a previous episode.
The couple also launched another show, Morning Run, in September.
In that podcast they return to their journalistic roots, covering daily news, entertainment and lifestyle headlines.