It looked like there was trouble en route to paradise for Amy Robach and T.J. Holmes this week.
The former Good Morning America co-hosts turned lovers were spotted waiting for their departing flight to the Caribbean at New York’s John F. Kennedy Airport on Tuesday.
You might expect a couple known to publicly gush about their scandalous romance to delight in sharing breakfast and sipping mimosas before flying first class to the Turks and Caicos Island, where Robach has a home.
But instead the two podcasters seemed grumpy and distant from each other, an observer told DailyMail.com.
The source described their vibe in JFK’s JetBlue lounge as noticeably irked, as if they were each waiting alone at the DMV rather than for a romantic getaway together to pristine white-sand beaches and crystal-clear turquoise waters.
At one point, a cranky Holmes even snapped at a bystander he accused of trying to snap a photo. ‘Did you get your picture?’ he snarled.
Amy Robach and T.J. Holmes appeared noticeably irked and distant from each other when they were spotted waiting for their flight to Turks & Caicos at JFK Airport earlier this week, sources tell DailyMail.com
The couple have remained together since their infamous affair was exposed in 2022
‘They must have had a real humdinger of a fight to be so out of sorts,’ the source told DailyMail.com.
The morning news anchors hosted GMA’s third hour together until ABC axed them both in January 2023, three months after DailyMail.com published an array of photos that dramatically exposed they were having an affair while they were both still married to their spouses.
The images showed them holding hands in an Uber, canoodling at a bar, and slipping in and out of each other’s apartments.
Robach had tied the knot with actor Andrew Shue — best known for his role as Billy Campbell on the 1990s television series Melrose Place — around the same time Holmes wed Marilee Fiebig, a nonprofit executive, in 2010.
Holmes shares a daughter with Fiebig and has two children from previous relationships, and Robach has two kids and a stepson with her ex-husband Tim McIntosh.
The GMA co-hosts first bonded while marathon training and developed a playful, at times flirty on-air chemistry despite Robach claims that Holmes was like a brother to her.
Robach is known to make regular trips to Turks and Caicos Islands, where she owns a home. She posted a view of the ocean sunset during her vacation last April
The pair were seen in Instagram photos celebrating Amy’s 52nd birthday in Las Vegas earlier this month
Amy shared a series of photos of their trip, including on snap in which T.J. is planting a smooch on her cheek
Both later said their marriages were failing by the time they fell in love.
The two couples split up shortly after news of the co-hosts’ affair broke in 2022.
Shue and Fiebig have moved on — with each other – in an unexpected twist, after commiserating about their exes’ romance and how the media storm around it affected their families.
Unlike their former spouses though, they have stayed mum about their relationship, which insiders have described as ‘genuine’ and the ‘real deal’ rather than merely a rebound fling.
Robach, now 52, and Holmes, now 47, have both expressed anger that news of their exes’ relationship broke the same day they launched their ‘Amy & T.J.’ podcast in December 2023.
They perceived the timing as a malicious attempt to undermine their efforts to move on with their careers and relationship.
In an unexpected twist, Holmes’s and Robach’s respective ex-spouses, Marilee Fiebig and Andrew Shue have since moved on — with each other; pictured in December
Amy and T.J.’s affair was exposed in 2022 – while they were both married to other people. Amy is seen left with her ex Andrew Shue and T.J. is seen right with his ex, Marilee Fiebig
‘We learned that there are still forces out there who are after us no matter what we do, and our success and our joy and our happiness and our future is threatening and upsetting to some people,’ Holmes said.
The duo often uses their podcast to talk openly about their love, about which they kept quiet for a year after news of their affair first made headlines.
They’ve acknowledged they’re both together at Holmes’ place and planning to spend the rest of their lives together.
Although they have talked on-air about the likelihood of marriage and even discussed appropriate vs. ‘cringey’ ways to pop the question, they have made no mention of specific wedding plans, let alone engagement.
Over the past month, their podcast has focused on the love stories of other celebrities.
They have explored such topics as ‘bread-crumbing’ while dating (giving the other person just enough attention to keep them interested, but without any intention of committing), the importance of healthy boundaries in relationships and strong communication between partners.
T. J. Holmes has opened up about the ‘ugliness’ that he and his girlfriend, Amy Robach, experienced when they launched their joint podcast in December 2023
T.J. and Amy, who are pictured here after completing the NYC marathon in November, said they have already talked about marriage
And they’ve spoken candidly about rough spells between them and how those periods have been that much harder because of constant scrutiny of and judgement about their relationship.
Robach has previously described reaching what she called ‘rock bottom’ when news of their affair was revealed.
She and Holmes made headlines last summer for a visibly heated discussion outside their Manhattan health club.
And both have acknowledged mistakes they made while scrambling to resuscitate their careers post-GMA and focusing on their children’s well-being at the expense of quality time with each other.
‘We are together all the time, but either we were with the kids or we were working, and we were working a lot, which is great — we love to work. But we didn’t get to have, like, us-time,’ Robach said on an episode of the podcast last summer.
They tried carving out that us-time on a string of vacations, one of which started with the kind of turbulence witnessed at JFK on Tuesday.
T.J. and Amy, pictured here in November 2022, were fired from ABC in January 2023 after their affair was exposed
The TV stars grew first close after they both landed jobs at ABC, and when they became co-hosts of GMA3 in 2020, their chemistry was undeniable almost immediately
While booking that earlier trip, Robach mistakenly marked the wrong year for Holmes’ birth date, causing him to be pulled aside and questioned at pre-check.
Things got tense when Robach interrupted Holmes while he was trying to explain the mix-up to TSA agents.
They said they were so rattled by the situation and irked at each other that they didn’t speak the whole flight.
It was unclear whether the couple spent their flight Tuesday morning in a similar silence.
Their crankiness was not the first turbulence they’ve weathered together, and likely won’t be the last.
‘Look, they live together, run together and work together. That’s a lot of togetherness and they have their issues.
‘No wonder there are cracks in the relationship now and then,’ our source told us.
‘But I think at the end of the day they love each other and are devoted.’
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