Amy Robach

Amy Joanne Robach (born February 6, 1973) is an American television reporter formerly for ABC News. She is best known as co-anchor of 20/20 and as the breaking news anchor/fill-in anchor for Good Morning America. Robach first entered national television by working for NBC News from August 2003 to May 2012. She served as a national correspondent for NBC News from 2003 to 2007, and became co-host of the Saturday edition of NBC's Today as well as anchor on MSNBC from 2007 to 2012. From May 2012 to January 2023, Robach worked for ABC News. She was a contributor for Good Morning America from May 2012 until March 2020, when she became the host of Pandemic: What You Need to Know, a show created in response to the COVID-19 Pandemic. The show would later become GMA3: What You Need to Know, which she co-hosted from September 2020 to December 2022. Robach also served as co-anchor of 20/20 alongside David Muir from May 2018 until January 2023. She would be fired from ABC after it was revealed that she had an extramarital affair with her Good Morning America co-host T.J. Holmes. Early life Born in St. Joseph, Michigan, Robach grew up in East Lansing, Michigan, before moving to St. Louis, Missouri. Her family moved again to Georgia, where she attended high school and college. Robach graduated from Brookwood High School in Snellville, Georgia, and from the University of Georgia with high honors in broadcast journalism. She was fourth runner-up in the 1995 Miss Georgia pageant. Career Robach started her career at WCBD-TV in 1995. Robach then left the station in 1999, and started working at WTTG in Washington, D.C., then moved to MSNBC in 2003 where she spent four years, including a stint anchoring two hours in the morning, and filling in on Weekend Today, Countdown with Keith Olbermann and Morning Joe. She was named co-anchor of Weekend Today in July 2007. Her last day on Weekend Today was May 19, 2012, when she announced she would be moving to ABC News.