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TJ Holmes accused of taking a woman’s phone on a first-class flight
TJ Holmes said a woman in the first class thought he had her phone.
April 30, 2024, published at 6:30 PM ET
TJ Holmes was accused of taking a random woman’s phone on a first-class flight to Los Angeles, RadarOnline.com has learned. The expelled Good morning America host addressed the incident on monday’s episode of the podcast he started with his girlfriend, Amy Robachafter they were fired from the AM show due to their secret romance.
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Holmes, 46, said he was in first grade with Robach and got up to go to the bathroom. As he left the bathroom, he was abruptly confronted by a stranger.
“She steps up to me and gestures – almost as if she’s going to search me – and says, ‘Oh, you don’t have it,’” the ex-TV personality recalled on Amy & TJadding: “[She] flat out accuses me of taking her phone.”
TJ recalled the incident on his podcast with Amy.
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He said he was taken aback by her comments and asked her to clarify why she asked him.
“Right now she’s a little lady, so I basically crawl, I crouch down, I put my hands on my knees and I get down to her level, and I say, ‘Ma’am, are you telling me I took your phone?’ ‘” Holmes told listeners. “And then she says, ‘Oh no, but it was there,’ and then kind of ignores me.”
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He said the flight attendant was “overly apologetic” about the situation, adding that Holmes was “charmed” by the encounter. “I will return to my seat next to row 5C and will not sit in my seat,” he said. “I’m sitting on the armrest.”
Holmes said the incident continued to irritate him.
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Robach and Holmes were fired from ABC two months after their secret affair came to light in November 2022.
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He said he saw the woman looking for her phone, and “sure enough,” the device had fallen near the woman’s chair. Holmes explained that his accuser repeatedly told him she was “so sorry.”
“Sorry, that’s just not enough at that moment,” Robach responded during the podcast.
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Holmes’ girlfriend also noted that these types of situations only happen to “certain people.” Despite the experience, Holmes said he was happy with the way he handled the situation and was glad there were people who witnessed his reaction and gave him the confidence to stand up for himself.
“If there weren’t more people around, I don’t think I would have leaned over and been as assertive as I was because I wouldn’t have a witness that I wasn’t aggressive with her or whatever it may be,” he admitted. “But that was a wild flying experience.”
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The couple’s secret relationship came out in November 2022.
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Robach agreed, recalling how the flight attendant wouldn’t stop apologizing for the “difficult” woman. “It was horrible,” she said.
Holmes and Robach said they can now laugh about the situation, while TJ joked that the woman may have been listening to their podcast episode on the “cell phone I took from her.”
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In an interesting turn of events, Amy and TJ’s ex-husbands are dating and things were still going strong last month.
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As RadarOnline.com reported, the relationship between Holmes and Robach was broken up in November 2022. At the time, they were married to other people – to Robach Andrew Shue and Holmes on Marilee Fiebig – however, they claim they didn’t cheat. Holmes and Robach lost their jobs at ABC shortly afterwards romance was exposed.
In an interesting turn of events, Shue and Fiebig started dating and they were it’s still going well since last month.
