Don Lemon hopes TJ Holmes and Amy Robach are reinstated after the anchors were taken off air

Don Lemon said he hopes TJ Holmes and Amy Robach will return to Good Morning America after the anchors were taken off air over their secret affair.

Lemon, the host of CNN This Morning, told DailyMail.com that viewers should not judge the pair until all the facts emerged. 

Holmes and Robach were taken off the air ‘indefinitely’ following DailyMail.com’s bombshell report which revealed they had been having a clandestine relationship. 

Lemon was asked at Tuesday’s RFK Human Rights Awards Ceremony if he thought the high-profile journalists should be reinstated.

‘I hope so and I hope I see him in person so I can give him a hug,’ he said.

‘I love them and I wish them the very best ‘and I think we should offer people grace in these situations until we actually know what the facts are.’ 

Holmes (left) and Robach (right) have been suspended following DailyMail.com’s bombshell report revealing their affair 

A series of exclusive DailyMail.com photos published on Wednesday revealed their intimate relationship, with the pair seen going on dates around the city and traveling to and from each other’s homes throughout the month of November

Holmes and Robach were replaced on Monday morning with ABC National Correspondent Stephanie Ramos and Transportation Correspondent Gio Benitez, who told viewers, ‘Amy Robach and TJ Holmes have the day off.’ 

ABC News’ President Kim Godwin made the announcement during an internal call Monday morning, calling the romance a distraction. 

‘I want to say that while that relationship is not a violation of company policy, I have really taken the last few days to think about and work through what I think is best for the ABC News organization,’ Godwin said, according to TMZ.

Despite Lemon’s call to wait on the facts to be revealed, plenty emerged about Holmes and Robach’s romance. 

The two were caught on a romantic getaway by DailyMail.com, holding hands in the back of a car and sharing a laugh at a bar.  

While it is unclear how Holmes’s wife, 44-year-old attorney Marilee Fiebig, and Robach’s husband, former Melrose Place actor AndrewShue, 55, learned of the affair, Holmes and his wife filed for divorce in August this year, according to sources.

Shue deleted photos of Robach from his Instagram after the affair was revealed.

Holmes’s wife declined to comment when contacted by DailyMail.com and has not spoken publicly since news of the romance broke.

Despite reports that Amy and Andrew have divorced, DailyMail.com has learned the couple has consulted with a mediator. 

Inside sources at GMA say staff have also been left furious and dismayed by the way the affair has disrupted the newsroom. 

ABC insiders were initially shocked to see the couple continue to work on air, telling DailyMail.com last week, ‘Disney needs to step in and take action here. 

‘We’re a family friendly network and these two are not displaying family values or Disney’s values.’

They added: ‘Bob Iger needs to intervene and terminate them both. He should also be asking Kim Godwin [President of ABC News] how this was allowed to happen on her watch.’

The pair spent a weekend shacked up in a cozy cottage in the Shawangunk Mountain region, checking out of their rental on Sunday November 13. Holmes was seen giving his lover a playful squeeze from behind as she packed up the car 

The couple were caught in a rare PDA moment as they held hands in the back of an Uber while heading to Robach’s apartment

The two co-anchors, whose on-screen chemistry has captivated audiences since they joined GMA’s third hour in 2020, can be seen laughing and cozying up to each other at the pub after a morning of filming on November 10 

Along with an affair with Robach, Holmes was also revealed to have had a three-year affair with one of the morning show’s married producers – a woman who counted Robach as one of her close friends. 

The relationship, which predates his affair with Robach, caused the end of former GMA producer Natasha Singh’s marriage to movie producer Garrett Braren, 43, whose credits include Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon.

According to one well-placed source, ‘Natasha was a producer for GMA based in Los Angeles when she and TJ, a reporter, began their affair in 2016.’

Singh, 37, was the producer when Holmes traveled to LA to interview Jimmy Kimmel ahead of the Oscar’s in a segment that aired on GMA February 22, 2017.

She left the show the following year when she moved to CBS and Gayle King’s morning show, but Singh’s relationship with Holmes lost no momentum and the couple were ‘going strong’ through 2019.

TJ Holmes, 45, had a three-year affair with Good Morning America producer Natasha Singh, 37, that began in 2016. Singh and TJ’s current lover Amy Robach were close friends

Natasha Singh was a producer for GMA based in LA. She left in 2017 when she moved to CBS and Gayle King’s morning show

Despite the revealed affairs and its alleged impacts on the GMA newsroom, Lemon had called for decorum until all the facts were revealed. 

Lemon has himself been marred in controversy but also exonerated by facts, including earlier this year when a bartender dropped a sexual assault lawsuit against him, claiming he misremembered the facts. 

Lemon had faced backlash after Hamptons bartender Dustin Hice accused the CNN host of forcing him to smell his fingers after rubbing his genitals in 2019. 

Hice, however, eventually walked back his allegations after learning that his two star witnesses testified against him and he failed to turn over evidence to the judge. 

While the lawsuit ended in his favor, Lemon continues to be a figure of controversy at the network, where he was most recently accused of being sexist after ‘mansplaining’ to his female co-hosts why men’s sports bring in more money. 

CNN This Morning co-host Don Lemon gets defensive about his stance that no one really wants to watch women’s soccer

The heated debate occurred last Thursday morning, during which his CNN This Morning co-hosts Poppy Harlow and Kaitlan Collins struggled to get a word in, occurred after it was revealed the US Women’s National Soccer Team will earn more from the men’s world cup than they did from their 2019 World Cup championship.

Lemon, who has been responsible for a spate of controversial on-air statements, attempted to explain to his colleagues that the US women’s soccer team has historically earned less than their male counterparts because there is simply limited interest in their playing of the sport.

‘You cannot make people become interested in something they are not interested in,’ he said.

Upon receiving swift pushback from co-host Poppy Harlow, he quickly caveated his opinion by stating: ‘I’m not sexist.

‘I grew up the only boy in a family of all women,’ he added, before recounting that when he goes to sports bars and women’s games are playing, a near-universal response from the crowd tends to be: ‘I don’t want to watch this.’

Harlow and Collins argued that women’s sports are undervalued by the entities which control advertising dollars because potential fans are not exposed to them enough for their marketing value to rise.

Collins pointed out that in some cases, including on the world soccer stage, the US women’s team have a more impressive recent record than the men.

‘The women have better skills,’ she said, as Lemon argued that women are generally worse at athletic competition and if the women’s team were to play the men’s team, they would lose.

‘I’m just being honest,’ he said, capping off the awkward segment.