Amy Robach and T.J. Holmes’ ex-spouses are dating — each other

The plot has grown ever more complicated in the romantic melodrama surrounding former “Good Morning America” co-anchors T.J. Holmes and Amy Robach, who said they lost “dream jobs” at ABC last year because they fell in love and were determined to be together.

It turns out that their ex-spouses, Marilee Fiebig and Andrew Shue, have begun dating. Page Six reported Tuesday that Fiebig, an attorney, and the former “Melrose Place” actor began spending time together, as friends, to commiserate over the scandal. But that friendship has blossomed into “something else” and the two have been dating about six months — a development that also could be said to mirror the plot of a soap opera or a 1970s farce about partner-swapping.

“They’re connected over their (shared) values,” a source told Page Six about Fiebig and Shue’s relationship. “It’s bigger than the affair now.”

Before Holmes and Robach were revealed to be a couple in late November 2022, it was known that the two couples — Holmes and Fiebig and Robach and Shue — were good friends who often socialized together as a foursome. It’s likely that Fiebig and Shue each had to grapple with feelings of hurt, grief or betrayal. But a source told Page Six that “the hurt is over” and Fiebig and Shue have “moved on.” The source added, “They are not heartbroken and sad.”

This Page Six report comes on the same day that Holmes and Robach launched their new podcast, “Amy and T.J.,” In the premiere episode, the couple offered their account about their forced departure from the third hour of “GMA:3,” or the third hour of “Good Morning America.” Among other things, the couple insisted that they didn’t cheat on their respective spouses because they only began dating in the summer of 2022 — after they said they separated from their spouses and started divorce proceedings.

“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.

Page Six’s sources offered a different account of whether there was any infidelity.  The sources said that Holmes and Robach’s alleged affair was a major factor in the couple’s respective divorces —  “no matter how they try to spin it,” as one source said.

Page Six sources also noted that Robach posted photos of her and Shue on vacation in Greece in July 2022, three months before her relationship with Holmes was exposed.

Sources also said that Holmes and Fiebig were still “very much together” when they celebrated his birthday in the Bahamas in August 2022. In fact, Page Six reported, it was during this vacation that Fiebig found a “not professional” birthday card from Robach that addressed Holmes as “my love.” In the note, Robach also told Holmes that they needed to find a way to be together, Page Six said.

On the podcast, Holmes declared, “(We) lost the jobs we love because we love each other.”

The couple also seemed eager to use their premiere episode to justify their actions with regard to ABC, revealing that they don’t think it was fair for them to lose their jobs. Robach said their romance did not “technically” violate any network policies regarding workplace relationships, while Holmes said: “I hadn’t even told my mom about the divorce, so why the hell am I thinking about telling an executive at the network about it? That’s where our heads were at.”

Indeed, Holmes and Robach explained that they didn’t tell too many people about their relationship, including their children. Holmes has a 10-year-old daughter, Sabine, with Fiebig, while Robach has two daughters, Ava, 21, and Annie, 17, with her first husband, Tim McIntosh.

Holmes and Robach said they planned to tell their families eventually. While the children knew their parents were divorcing, Holmes and Robach didn’t let them know that they had begun dating — a choice they regret, given the way the scandal blew up in the tabloids.

“You don’t know what to do,” Robach said. “It’s enough to go through a divorce privately, for a family to have to restructure and group and to figure out what this new normal is. To then on top of all that, spring a new relationship on them?”

“We thought we were protecting our children and our families, and we thought we had time,” Robach said.

Now, it appears that the “new normal” in the lives of Holmes’ and Robach’s children involves their parents swapping partners. Both Holmes and Robach said they continue to apologize to their children for causing so much upheaval.

“I’m still saying I’m sorry (to my daughters),” Robach said. “It’s one thing for us to deal with the press and to deal with the headlines and, honestly, the paparazzi that have become as much a part of our lives as anything. They’re there all the time. And so when I’m with my children, when I’m with my daughters, they’re there and their pictures are being taken. … I just try to put myself in their shoes. It’s their family, and they’re so young, they don’t have the tools or the life experience to even really be able to put it into perspective. And it’s just been a really hard, hard journey that will continue. We’re all in therapy.”