T.J. Holmes and Amy Robach Are Spending First Christmas Collectively

T.J. Holmes and Amy Robach are hitting one other milestone of their relationship!

On the Dec. 18 episode of their Amy & T.J. podcast, the couple opened up about how the vacations are wanting a bit completely different from years previous. Holmes and Robach, who started relationship in 2022, revealed they are going to be spending Christmas collectively for the primary time.

“This has been a protracted highway coming,” Robach, 51, mentioned. “So we have been collectively for greater than two years, and this was our first Thanksgiving that we received to spend truly collectively, and that is going to be the primary Christmas Eve and Christmas morning we get up collectively. However we did that for our daughters. We allow them to prepared the ground, and we wished them to be prepared earlier than any of this began.”

Holmes, 47, is the daddy to 10-year-old Sabine whereas Robach has two daughters, Annalise, 21, and Ava, 18. Although all of them get alongside nicely, she defined that high quality time will not be one thing the blended household typically experiences.

“I am actually wanting ahead to recognizing how cool it’s that we get to spend quiet time collectively, quiet time with our daughters for the primary time since we have been collectively,” Robach mentioned. “And so that is actually massive, essential month, and I am making an attempt to recollect and never get misplaced within the craziness of all of it, however actually attempt to bear in mind how grateful I’m that we’re on the place we’re at.”

Holmes defined that he was excited to deliver their households collectively for the vacation, noting that he had been spending loads of time with Robach’s youngsters lately — even going to her daughter Ava’s play earlier this month. The pair additionally introduced Annalise and Sabine to iHeart’s Jingle Ball on Dec. 13 for his or her pink carpet debut.

Nonetheless, he admitted he nonetheless has some nerves.

“I imply, you may’t assist however be a bit anxious,” Holmes confessed. “You are opening items in entrance of one another, you are working up collectively on a very powerful of holidays to loads of of us. So no, it is simply model new. It is model new for everyone.”

“As a lot as we have already spent a vacation collectively, it is simply Thanksgiving, [and] not all of us,” he continued.

Robach added: “Thanksgiving went actually, very well. So I am very very hopeful about this Christmas week.”

The previous GMA3 anchors first sparked relationship rumors across the holidays in 2022 after they had been seen cozying up at a bar in upstate New York. In December of that 12 months, they had been positioned on hiatus from their internet hosting gigs and later exited the present.

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A 12 months later, in November 2023, they launched their podcast, joking that they had been lastly breaking their silence with the announcement. 

“How’s this for instagram official? #silentnomore 🎤,” the caption started. “‘Amy & T.J.’ December fifth,” it continued. “Hear on the iHeartRadio app and all over the place podcasts are heard. @amyandtjpodcast.”

In April 2024, they opened up in regards to the thought of marriage, with each saying they had been not sure whether or not they would ever formally tie the knot. Robach mentioned that she did need to transfer in with Holmes sooner or later, however defined that she felt they may very well be “life companions” with out being legally married.

“We work collectively, and we prep for work collectively … and so we’re by no means [apart] and we have been like this for a really very long time,” she mentioned. “I simply assume we’re so used to continually being round one another. That might not change something.”