Amy Robach and T.J. Holmes Talk Potential Marriage, Share When They Knew Their Friendship Had Turned Romantic

Amy Robach and T.J. Holmes are never saying never when it comes to tying the knot. While the duo have no immediate plans to walk down the aisle again, they're opening up about the practical reasons they're keeping it "under consideration." 

On Tuesday's episode of the Amy & T.J. podcast on iHeartRadio, the couple answered fan questions hand selected by their producers. Robach and Holmes said that they were not made aware of the questions ahead of time. 

At one point, they were put on the spot about whether they intend to get married. 

"We did not enter this relationship for fun or for, 'Let's see what happens,'" Robach said. "We entered this relationship because we intend to spend our lives together. So whether or not we have some sort of legal, I don't know, button on it, that's like, I don't know." 

Robach and Holmes have each been married twice before -- Robach to Tim McIntosh, with whom she shares two daughters, and later to Andrew Shue; and Holmes to Amy Ferson and Marilee Fiebig. Holmes has three children. 

"We both have two marriages under our belts, and so it's not something we're racing or rushing towards, but there is something, I get it," Robach continued. "I can't even explain why there's this desire, but I want to spend the rest of my life with you." 

Holmes teased, "But you don't want to marry me?" 

"It's on the table!" Robach fired back. 

Holmes was more direct in his response. 

"I want to marry you," he said, adding a caveat. 

"You are 50 and I'm 46," he began. "I'm very sick of introducing you, a 50-year-old woman, 'This is my girlfriend.' That just sounds stupid." 

Robach jokingly lamented, "But thank you for noting the age difference. I appreciate that." 

She added, "Lucky for us, when we actually meet people, we don't have to say, 'This is my boyfriend, T.J.' They already know. We're past that. We don't really have to introduce each other, so we don't really have to use that language."

Robach and Holmes have been open about the timeline of their relationship since launching their podcast earlier this month. They've previously said that their working relationship turned romantic last summer after they started divorce proceedings with their respective spouses at the time. Now, they're putting a bit more fine a point on the details surrounding that time period, and how they went from friends to something more. 

Asked by one fan when about how they fell in love, Holmes said they initially kept their feelings close-hold. 

"Look, when we knew, it was probably summer of last year where we were like, 'Uh oh,' that things were -- something else was evolving," Holmes disclosed. "We were very close to entering divorce proceedings." 

He continued, "We didn't share that with each other because I am sitting over here going, 'Lord, this has been a great best friend friendship, I don't need to screw this up by saying to her that there's something I'm feeling for her that's beyond the friendship. So we kinda tip-toed around it." 

Robach said that, for her, looking forward to the weekdays on the set of Good Morning America -- where they previously served as co-anchors for GMA3 --was a telling sign of her feelings.

"We were spending so much time together at work and then we didn't want it to end," she recalled. "I remember us both saying, 'Ah, Fridays are a bummer.' Because normally people are excited about Fridays, right?" 

"'Cause you get to go home for the weekend," Holmes chimed in. "But that means we couldn't see each other again until Monday." 

"And then Mondays were always like, 'Ugh' for most people," Robach continued. "And we were excited about Mondays." 

Holmes shared that he was the one to say "I love you" first in the relationship, with Robach hinting that it came very early on in their romance. 

"T.J. told me he loved me before he even held my hand," she said. "I don't think I've ever had that experience before in my life where it was an emotional connection that we acknowledged before anything physical ever happened, and that was pretty amazing."

Both Holmes and Robach expressed a desire for the public to understand the depth of their connection as it had been built for nearly a decade leading up to their late 2022 ouster from ABC News and public fallout. 

"I wish folks had a better understanding of the past eight years before we started dating and understanding of the foundation that we had built," Holmes mused. "People saw chemistry on the air and people behind the scenes saw our friendship. We were ridiculous together to the point of annoyance."

Robach echoed, "We were the kids in the class who had to be separated by the teacher, always." 

"I think that disgusted us most," Holmes continued, referencing the reaction to their relationship. "That something that we were so careful about and so deliberate, and took so much great care in, was being thrown out as just something salacious and tawdry."

On last week's podcast, the couple addressed "headlines" surrounding their romance, and their first public appearances as a couple -- but stopped short of acknowledging their exes, Marliee Fiebig and Andrew Shue's, relationship. 

"There were other headlines this week with agendas, and we absolutely anticipated that that was going to happen," Holmes said, not directly addressing their former spouses. "There's nothing we could do about those. But this place, this podcast and this platform, we are committed to a place that is not going to be about gossip. This is not going to be a place where we clap back at headlines. We are not going to get in that back and forth games because gossip is toxic."

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