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GMA3 lovebirds T.J. Holmes and Amy Robach are now formally gone from ABC, however the fallout inside the community continues.
Information boss Kim Godwin is now on skinny ice with Disney executives over her and her group’s dealing with of the affair—and he or she’s quickly shedding the arrogance of the newsroom, six senior ABC Information staffers informed Confider.
For starters, staff are fast to recall how quickly after the tryst was first revealed, Godwin confidently wrote in a memo that the connection was “not a violation of firm coverage,” a declaration that has left the newsroom scratching its collective head now that Robach—who was well-liked and, not like Holmes, didn't have different alleged workplace trysts—has been given the boot.
Staffers additional famous that with Robach gone and Cecilia Vega having defected to 60 Minutes, the GMA expertise bench has thinned out to a troubling diploma. ABC bookers are actually in a pickle as a result of Robach was the community’s go-to option to conduct the extra controversial interviews that Robin Roberts passes on for worry of tainting her “model,” insiders informed us. (Apparently, two individuals acquainted with the matter mentioned Roberts was amongst these pushing for Robach and Holmes’ exit.)
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In the end, the monthslong scandal was a “self-inflicted wound” for Godwin, a number of ABC staffers remarked, as her initially lackadaisical memo and incapability to decide allowed a two-day story to spiral into two months of salacious headlines and seemingly nonstop PR crises.
“She doesn’t perceive the group and he or she has surrounded herself with incompetent individuals,” one dismayed ABC Information staffer mentioned.
Confider has additional discovered that, amid all this turmoil, Disney international safety has been interviewing staffers as a part of a hunt for leakers inside the community—a unprecedented transfer for a information outlet that depends on nameless sources and leaks.
Reps for ABC Information and Disney declined to remark.
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