Amy Joanne Robach (born February 6, 1973) is an American television reporter for
ABC News
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. She is the co-anchor of ''
20/20'' and the breaking news anchor/fill-in anchor for ''
Good Morning America''. She was a national correspondent for
NBC News
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, co-host of the Saturday edition of NBC's ''
Today
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'', and anchor on
MSNBC
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. Since May 2018, she has been the co-anchor of ''
20/20'' alongside
David Muir.
Early life
Born in
St. Joseph, Michigan, Robach grew up in
East Lansing, Michigan
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, before moving to
St. Louis
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,
Missouri
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. Her family moved again to Georgia, where she attended high school and college. She graduated from
Brookwood High School in
Snellville, Georgia
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, and from the
University of Georgia
, mottoeng = "To teach, to serve, and to inquire into the nature of things.""To serve" was later added to the motto without changing the seal; the Latin motto directly translates as "To teach and to inquire into the nature of things."
, establ ...
with high honors in broadcast journalism.
She was 4th runner-up in the 1995
Miss Georgia pageant.
Career
Robach started her career at
WCBD in 1995. Robach then left the station in 1999, and started working at
WTTG
WTTG (channel 5) is a television station in Washington, D.C., airing programming from the Fox network. It is owned and operated by the network's Fox Television Stations division alongside MyNetworkTV outlet WDCA (channel 20). WTTG and WDCA sh ...
in Washington, D.C., then moved to
MSNBC
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in 2003 where she spent four years, including a stint anchoring two hours in the morning, and filling in on ''
Weekend Today
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'', ''
Countdown with Keith Olbermann'' and ''
Morning Joe''. She was named co-anchor of ''
Weekend Today
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'' in July 2007. Her last day on ''Weekend Today'' was May 19, 2012,
when she announced she would be moving to
ABC News
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.
Robach initially appeared on ABC's ''
Good Morning America'' as a correspondent. She became the show's news anchor on March 31, 2014. In 2018, Robach became the new co-anchor of
''20/20'' .
In March 2020, Robach began hosting ''
Pandemic: What You Need to Know'' on ABC, a daytime program initially focused on the
COVID-19 pandemic in the United States, and airing in place of ''
Strahan, Sara & Keke''. The program later replaced ''Strahan, Sara & Keke'' indefinitely as ''GMA3: What You Need to Know'', with Robach continuing as host. Robach was removed from ''GMA3'' in December 2022 after it was revealed that she was having an affair with her married co-anchor
T. J. Holmes.
Jeffrey Epstein story
On November 2, 2019,
Project Veritas released a late August 2019 "hot mic" incident in which Robach discusses ABC shutting down her story on billionaire convicted sex offender and accused sex trafficker
Jeffrey Epstein
Jeffrey Edward Epstein ( ; January 20, 1953August 10, 2019) was an American sex offender and financier. Epstein, who was born and raised in Brooklyn, New York City, began his professional life by teaching at the Dalton School in Manhattan, des ...
in 2015. Robach's comments came just two days after an NPR story disclosed the existence of an on-camera interview with Virginia Roberts Giuffre and ABC's failure to broadcast it. Giuffre says she was sexually trafficked by Epstein to powerful men including
Prince Andrew, Duke of York — a claim the Duke has strenuously denied. In a "hot mic" video, Robach was recorded on set for ABC's ''Good Morning America'' voicing the following statements:
"I've had the story for three years," Robach says in the video. "We would not put it on the air. Um, first of all, I was told, 'Who was Jeffrey Epstein? No one knows who that is. This is a stupid story.' Then the palace found out that we had her whole allegations about Prince Andrew and threatened us a million different ways." Robach goes on to say that Giuffre alluded to others in the interview, including former President
Bill Clinton
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, Harvard University law professor emeritus
Alan Dershowitz
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and Epstein's former girlfriend,
Ghislaine Maxwell
Ghislaine Noelle Marion Maxwell ( ; born 25 December 1961) is a British convicted sex offender and former socialite. In 2021, she was found guilty of child sex trafficking and other offences in connection with the financier and convicted sex o ...
. Giuffre has made similar accusations against all of them also in court documents. (All deny any wrongdoing or involvement in Epstein's sex trafficking.) Giuffre has said in court papers that she saw Clinton in Epstein's presence but did not witness Clinton participate in any sexual activity.
"I tried for three years to get it out to no avail, and now these new revelations and — I freaking had all of it," Robach says on the tape. "I'm so pissed right now. Like, every day I get more and more pissed, 'cause I'm just like, 'Oh my God! It was — what we had, was unreal.' "
Robach further stated: “One of the reasons an interview with Roberts was not broadcast was because, we were so afraid we wouldn’t be able to interview
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and
Will, so I think that had also quashed the story.”
Robach responded to the leaked video with this statement: "As a journalist, as the Epstein story continued to unfold last summer, I was caught in a private moment of frustration. I was upset that an important interview I had conducted with Virginia Roberts didn’t air because we could not obtain sufficient corroborating evidence to meet ABC’s editorial standards about her allegations. My comments about Prince Andrew and her allegation that she had seen Bill Clinton on Epstein's private island were in reference to what Virginia Roberts said in that interview in 2015. I was referencing her allegations—not what ABC News had verified through our reporting. The interview itself, while I was disappointed it didn't air, didn't meet our standards. In the years since, no one ever told me or the team to stop reporting on Jeffrey Epstein, and we have continued to aggressively pursue this important story."
ABC News issued a statement, asserting: "At the time, not all of our reporting met our standards to air, but we have never stopped investigating the story. Ever since, we’ve had a team on this investigation and substantial resources dedicated to it. That work has led to a two-hour documentary and 6-part podcast that will air in the new year."
Personal life
Family
Robach is a cousin of former ''
Nashville Star
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'' contestant Matt Lindahl. Her aunt and uncle were performing-arts teachers at her high school.
Robach was married to Tim McIntosh from 1996 until filing for an uncontested divorce in 2008. They have two daughters, Ava (2002) and Analise (2006).
Robach became engaged to former ''
Melrose Place'' star
Andrew Shue
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in September 2009, after meeting him at a book party the previous April. They were married on Robach's 37th birthday, February 6, 2010, at The Lighthouse at
Chelsea Piers
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, adjacent to the Hudson River. It was reported she and Shue separated in August 2022 before Robach's relationship with her ''GMA3'' co-anchor
T. J. Holmes was publicly disclosed.
Health
On November 11, 2013, Robach revealed on ''Good Morning America'' that she had been diagnosed with
breast cancer
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after receiving a
mammogram
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on live television on October 1, 2013, and after undergoing follow-up tests. She took time off from broadcasting to undergo a bilateral
mastectomy
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. On November 22, 2013, Robach revealed that during the surgery, doctors found a second malignant tumor in her other breast and that the cancer had spread to her lymph nodes (classified as Stage IIB). She then underwent eight rounds of chemotherapy, radiation and reconstructive surgery. As of March 2022, Robach was cancer free.
See also
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References
External links
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* – Amy meets
Bela Karolyi
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Places Asia
*Bela Pratapgarh, a town in Pratapgarh District, Uttar Pradesh, India
*Bela, a small village near Bhandara, Maharashtra, India
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