T.J. Holmes was “accused of stealing somebody’s cell phone” on a recent flight to Los Angeles.
On Tuesday’s episode of the “Amy & T.J.” podcast, the former news anchor told listeners he and Amy Robach were minding their business on a JetBlue flight when a woman, who was sitting four rows in front of them, claimed to their flight attendant he took her phone.
“I was using the bathroom up front — right next to the cockpit — and I come out and there’s a flight attendant standing there with this little old lady,” the 46-year-old recalled, noting that the woman was “white with dirty blond hair.”
“She’s standing there and the flight attendant asks, ‘Did you see a phone in there?’ and I immediately turned around and said, ‘Oh, no. I didn’t see anything.'”
Despite Holmes’ denial, the passenger then “stepped towards” him and “gestured like she was about to frisk [him].”
“And says, ‘Oh, you don’t have it?’” he recalled. “In front of the plane, she flat out accuses me of taking her phone.”
“And she is a short lady so I actually crouched down, put my hands on my knees and got down on her level and I say, ‘Ma’am are you telling me I took your phone?’”
Although the woman tried to “ignore” Holmes, the flight attendant was “overly apologetic” about the situation.
Sure enough, the passenger found her phone “in her seat” and “turned” around to Holmes “mortified, screaming across the five rows, ‘I’m so sorry!'”
“Sorry doesn’t cut it at that point,” Robach, 51, said, which Holmes agreed with.
“I have to be calm,” he explained. “If there weren’t more people around then I wouldn’t have bent down and been as assertive as I was because I wouldn’t have a witness that I wasn’t aggressive towards her.”
Elsewhere in the episode, Holmes noted that Robach has “witnessed” how he gets treated as a “Black man going through some of the same scenarios in life but getting treated very differently.”
“Very differently,” Robach added.
The pair publicly started dating in November 2022 after their months-long affair came to light.
At the time, Holmes was married to Marilee Fiebig while Robach was still with husband Andrew Shue. In a shocking turn of events, Page Six revealed in December 2023 that Fiebig and Shue started dating after bonding over the traumatic experience.
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However, Robach and Holmes have denied participating in an extramarital affair, insisting that they were legally married but not actually with their respective partners at the time.
“To be clear, we were outed as being in a relationship, but everyone else thought we were being outed as adulterers — being outed as cheating on our spouses — and it wasn’t the case,” Holmes claimed during the premiere episode of their podcast.
Despite the high-profile end to their marriages, the former “Good Morning America 3” anchors may be heading down the aisle once again.
Earlier this month, the twosome admitted they’ve been seriously discussing the possibility of marriage.
“We’re still deciding about what that level of commitment is … whether it’s legal or not … but mentally, emotionally, we’ve absolutely agreed to commit to one another,” Robach explained on their podcast. “We haven’t figured [out] the marriage thing out yet.”
“We haven’t decided whether or not we are going to officially get married,” Holmes chimed in.
Robach explained that all she wants is a “life partner” and questioned if “a legal[ly] binding agreement” was necessary to achieve that.
“I’m just admitting it, and I’m not saying it makes any sense … There’s something about where I feel if I can say ‘that’s my husband and I’m his wife,’ it feels more official and it feels more real even though that’s necessarily not the case because we lived enough life to know that’s not,” she said.
