Meghan Markle says there's a reason she's kept her children, Archie and Lilibet, away from her father, Thomas Markle Sr.
Thomas Sr. was accused of possessing child sexual abuse material by his son, Thomas Markle Jr., the Duchess of Sussex’s half-brother, according to a report published by The Sun Thursday.
Thomas Jr. allegedly found the material in Thomas Sr.'s home in Cebu, Philippines, and reported it to police and the FBI.
On Friday, Meghan responded to the allegations in a statement shared with Fox News Digital.
"I am deeply distressed at the news that has come to light in the last 24 hours, and my thoughts are with any children who may have been harmed," her statement began.
"In 2018, a letter was sent to the Metropolitan Police and Royalty and Specialist Protection. That letter was subsequently shared with me. It made troubling and disturbing allegations against my father, and I was given assurances that these were being investigated.
"I hope it can now be understood that, despite certain media publications’ distortion over the years, any distance from my father and my choice to not allow him to have contact with our children, was for one reason: to protect them.
"I trusted that the authorities were doing the same for other families," the statement continued.
"Although the breadth of what has now been uncovered is more sickening than one could ever imagine, my sincerest hope is that justice will be fully served and that the priority remains the safety and protection of innocent children," the statement concluded.
London's Metropolitan Police said it is not investigating Thomas Markle Sr. but is conducting internal inquiries into the handling of the 2018 letter, according to The Independent.
Meghan shares Archie, 7, and Lilibet, 5, with Prince Harry. Her father has never met the Duke and Duchess of Sussex’s children.
The FBI National Press Office said in a statement to Fox News Digital Friday that the bureau would assist Philippine authorities in their investigation.
"The FBI is aware of the allegations and will provide support, as appropriate, to the Philippine authorities. We will also investigate any related allegations of federal violations of U.S. law," the statement said.
According to Reuters, Philippine Justice Undersecretary Nicholas Ty confirmed on Friday that a task force investigating human trafficking and online child sexual abuse in Cebu "is currently investigating the matter."
Thomas Sr. denied the allegations to the Daily Mail.
"I’m shocked, I’m hurt and I’m very upset that my son is making these accusations against me. I could never do what I’m being accused of. It’s the worst thing anyone could accuse me of," he told the outlet Friday.
"This is bulls---," Thomas Sr. added. "It’s just a bunch of lies. It’s sick. I have no idea why Tom is trying to destroy me with these lies."
Thomas Jr. told The Sun he found suspected child sexual abuse material in four large boxes, containing "hundreds, if not thousands" of images. He also said he found videos of young girls no older than 10 or 11 years old engaging in sexual acts.
He also told the outlet he found four images of nude girls, one of which appeared to have been taken at Thomas Sr.'s former home in Rosarito, Mexico.
"What I saw made me sick to the stomach. All this stuff was just dumped on me, and I didn’t know what to do. I knew right away it was highly illegal and would land me in jail for a long time if I didn’t get rid of it. I felt betrayed, angry and disgusted and realized I had to report him," Thomas Jr. told The Sun.
"When I found this material, I was horrified, and I had no option but to report my dad."
Thomas Jr. said he reported the alleged child sexual abuse material to the FBI hotline and the Pennsylvania State Police. According to The Sun, the FBI "confirmed receipt" of Thomas Jr.'s allegations and is "set to launch their own probe."
Selma Blair is revisiting a terrifying encounter with a Hollywood director who she says threatened her into silence after allegedly pressuring her to undress early on in her career.
During an appearance on "The Jenny McCarthy Show," the "Cruel Intentions" actress — who filmed the podcast episode prior to her arrest this month — opened up about her alleged experience with filmmaker James Toback, recalling how the Oscar-nominated screenwriter left her fearful for her life.
"He really put the fear of God in me in my early 20s," Blair told McCarthy, describing Toback as "really, really scary."
Blair recalled an alleged encounter in which Toback pressured her to remove her clothes while performing a monologue, presenting the request as part of her acting development.
"I took my clothes off," Blair recalled. "It was horrifying."
She said Toback instructed her to "do the monologue naked," despite her discomfort.
"I was really uncomfortable," Blair said. "It was really traumatic."
Blair explained that she initially believed the director was trying to improve her acting abilities, rather than making a sexual advance.
The actress said Toback later made disparaging remarks about her appearance, including comments about her hips.
"How dare you? Like, how are you going to make someone feel bad?" Blair recalled thinking.
She also described an alleged threat that she said prevented her from speaking publicly about the experience for years.
"He said, 'You know, if you ever tell a soul, I'll gouge your eyes out with a Bic pen.' And I believed it and I kept quiet."
Blair's allegations were among those examined in a 2017 Los Angeles Times investigation by reporter Glenn Whipp, which initially detailed sexual harassment accusations from 38 women against Toback.
The women described encounters in which the filmmaker allegedly used promises of acting opportunities to initiate sexually inappropriate interactions.
Blair was initially an anonymous source in the investigation. As additional women came forward, the number of accusers grew to more than 300, according to subsequent reporting by the Los Angeles Times.
Blair said she ultimately decided to publicly identify herself after learning that Toback had disputed the women's accounts.
"When I found out he called all these women liars ... I was like, oh no, I can't stand for that," Blair told McCarthy.
"I will no longer be anonymous because he's not going to do that."
In October 2017, Blair and fellow actress Rachel McAdams publicly detailed their allegations against Toback in a Vanity Fair interview.
Toback denied the sexual misconduct allegations reported by the Los Angeles Times at the time, saying he either had not met the women or did not recall their encounters.
Reflecting on the experience years later, Blair expressed anger about the treatment she said she endured.
"It was all awful. It was so upsetting and awful," she said.
Blair also offered a message to other women who might face similar pressure in the entertainment industry: "You don't have to do it. You don't have to do it."
Earlier this month, Blair — who revealed publicly in 2018 that she was diagnosed with multiple sclerosis — was arrested and arraigned on two counts of second-degree assault stemming from accusations that she assaulted a nurse and a police officer after an incident involving crew members aboard a Delta Air Lines flight to New York City. Blair pleaded not guilty.
The judge set bail at $20,000 cash/$60,000 bond/$60,000 partially secured bond. She's expected in court in January 2027.
Jimmie Allen is maintaining his innocence and insisting he is the "victim" after a federal judge ordered the country star to pay nearly $1.8 million to a woman who accused him of sexual assault.
The 41-year-old singer faced two separate civil sexual assault and abuse lawsuits from two women in 2023. During an interview with Fox News Digital, Allen spoke candidly about the allegations that derailed his career, maintaining that his sexual encounters with both women who sued him were consensual while acknowledging that he was unfaithful to his then-wife, Alexis Gale.
When asked what he would say to his accusers today, Allen said he has forgiven both women but admitted that he struggled with being unable to publicly defend himself without being accused of blaming alleged victims.
"I wanted to just get on social media and call them liars and things like that," Allen said. "But it was interesting when I thought about it, someone said, 'No, well, you'll be a victim blamer and stuff like that.'"
"But I was like, 'I'm the victim here,'" he continued. "So they can say this about me, these horrible things about me and try to ruin and destroy everything that I worked my butt off for. But I can't say that they're lying."
In May 2023, the first woman, Jane Doe 1, who worked as the country singer's day-to-day manager, filed a lawsuit against Allen, in which she accused him of raping her in 2021 and subsequently sexually harassing her over the next 18 months.
The second woman sued Allen in June 2023, accusing the "Big In A Small Town" singer of sexually assaulting her while she visited him at a Las Vegas hotel in the summer of 2022 while he was in Sin City for a bowling tournament. Jane Doe 2 claimed Allen had also recorded the encounter without her permission.
Allen denied both women's allegations and filed counterclaims against them in July 2023, accusing his former manager of defamation and other claims and accusing Jane Doe 2 of unlawfully taking his cellphone following their encounter.
In August 2025, Allen was found liable by default rather than following a trial in which a jury weighed the competing accounts.
The following June, a federal judge ordered Allen to pay Jane Doe 2 $1,790,541 in compensatory and punitive damages.
WATCH HERE: JIMMIE ALLEN SAYS HE'S THE ‘VICTIM’ AFTER SEXUAL ASSAULT ALLEGATIONS UPENDED HIS LIFE
While speaking with Fox News Digital, Allen said that he does not intend to simply accept the judgment.
"I'm pursuing options because I – me as a man and as a father and as the son and brother of real sexual assault victims – I cannot in good conscience do that," he said. "And that's why I feel like as a man and as a father, it is my job to fight it and find and chase whatever other options I can."
Allen did not specify what legal action he intended to pursue. Fox News Digital reached out to his current attorney, Ted Anastasiou, for comment.
The default ruling followed a series of missed deadlines and court orders. According to court records, Allen and his touring company failed to meet discovery requirements, attend court-ordered mediation and obtain new counsel within deadlines set by the court.
Allen claimed that much of the breakdown was due to his former attorney, Alandis Brassel, becoming seriously ill while representing him. The singer told Fox News Digital that Brassel was a solo practitioner and claimed that he had difficulty reaching his lawyer while he was sick.
"I'm not in contact with the court. He is," Allen recalled. "So during that time, we missed a deadline."
Allen said Brassel later informed the court about his illness but claimed the judge "didn't care."
"So the judge dropped my countersuit, and they awarded Jane Doe 2 default judgment because I missed the deadline," he said.
However, court records detail multiple missed deadlines and failures to comply with court orders.
The Grammy Award nominee acknowledged that there was at least one deadline during that period of time that he believed he could have met himself.
"I have no problem taking responsibility," Allen said. "I could have, you know, maybe done more. Absolutely."
"The other ones, I should have been more, I guess, involved with the court, but I've never been in a situation like this," he continued. "I didn't know even how to connect with the court. I didn't know if I could speak to the court without my lawyer because he was the one that was handling it."
Anastasiou later became Allen's legal representation. After the default ruling, Anastasiou similarly blamed Allen's "prior counsel's repeated failures to comply with discovery obligations and court orders" and said his client intended to seek to set aside the judgment.
"This ruling was not based on the merits of the allegations. Mr. Allen has consistently and unequivocally maintained his innocence, and he firmly denies these accusations," Anastasiou told People magazine in August 2025.
"As with earlier accusations brought on the same baseless grounds, this case is equally meritless," he continued. "The default judgment reflects the shortcomings of prior representation, not any wrongdoing by Mr. Allen. It is well-established that a client should not be penalized for the failures of their attorney, and Mr. Allen should not be deprived of his right to a fair defense."
Fox News Digital was unable to reach Brassel for comment.
WATCH HERE: JIMMIE ALLEN SAYS HE'S ‘PURSUING OPTIONS’ TO FIGHT $1.8M SEXUAL ASSAULT
According to her lawsuit, Jane Doe 2 met Allen on a flight to Nashville in May 2022 and the two remained in contact over the following months before meeting in Las Vegas.
Jane Doe 2 alleged that she willingly joined Allen in his hotel room and initially consented to having sex with him, but repeatedly told the singer that she was not on birth control and did not want him to ejaculate inside her. According to the complaint, Allen agreed but later disregarded her requests to stop and instead ejaculated inside her.
She also alleged that Allen secretly recorded their sexual encounter without her knowledge or consent. According to the lawsuit, Allen had asked her to remain on the hotel room's balcony after they arrived while he went inside, which she believed was because he was planning a surprise. Jane Doe 2 alleged that Allen instead used the opportunity to position his cellphone to later record them.
Jane Doe 2 alleged that after Allen fell asleep, she discovered the phone recording them, stopped the recording and deleted the video. According to the complaint, she was unable to permanently delete the footage without Allen's passcode and took the phone with her when she left the hotel room before later turning it over to police.
Allen disputed Jane Doe 2's account, maintaining that their encounter was consensual and that she knew she was being recorded. He said that they were together on the balcony when he explicitly told her he wanted to record and asked permission. While speaking with Fox News Digital, he described their alleged conversation regarding the recording.
"She said, ‘You were recording us without my permission.’ I said, 'Oh, no, no.' I said, 'We were on the balcony.' And I have all this in texts that we were on the balcony. I told you, 'I'm recording, is it OK?' And I don't ever hide my camera, ever. Ever. It's not my thing,'" he told Fox News Digital.
Allen has maintained since 2023 that Jane Doe consented to the recording.
The singer claimed to Fox News Digital that the recording depicts him "passing out."
"In the video, you can see me passing out," he claimed. "You can see me black out, like pass out."
Allen further claimed the recording shows Jane Doe 2 continuing to engage in sexual activity with him after he passed out, later getting dressed, returning to bed and rubbing his back before approaching the camera and turning it off.
WATCH HERE: JIMMIE ALLEN SAYS SEXUAL ASSAULT LAWSUIT ‘LITERALLY SAVED MY LIFE’ AFTER DOCTOR'S DIRE WARNING
Elizabeth Fegan, an attorney who represented both Jane Doe 1 and Jane Doe 2, blasted Allen's claims in a statement to Fox News Digital.
"Mr. Allen's attempt to portray himself as the victim is as outrageous as it is offensive to the women who have come forward to report his sexual misconduct," Fegan said. "Two women have accused Mr. Allen of sexual abuse. Rather than accepting responsibility for his actions, he has repeatedly denied their accounts, sought to discredit them, and now attempts to rewrite the facts through the media, all while evading his financial obligations to the women who sought justice through the courts."
"Let there be no ambiguity: Jane Doe 2 never consented to being recorded," she continued. "Mr. Allen's continued insistence otherwise does not change her account or the Court's findings. Nor do his self-serving descriptions of selected portions of the recording establish consent to its creation. His attempt to shift attention to her behavior is yet another effort to blame the woman whose rights he violated."
"The real victim here is the woman whose privacy, bodily autonomy, and trust were violated and who has endured years of trauma and litigation seeking accountability," Fegan added. "Mr. Allen has had ample opportunity to tell his story in court. He chose not to do so. He should stop attacking the women who came forward and start taking responsibility for his conduct."
While speaking with Fox News Digital, Allen also addressed the allegations made by his former day-to-day manager, whose 2023 lawsuit first thrust the country singer into the scandal.
Jane Doe 1, who worked as Allen's day-to-day manager, accused the singer of repeatedly sexually harassing and assaulting her over an approximately 18-month period while she was employed by his management company.
In her lawsuit, Jane Doe 1 alleged that Allen first sexually assaulted her in March 2021 after a work trip to Los Angeles, where he was filming an appearance on "American Idol." She claimed that after having several drinks at a business dinner, she woke up naked in her hotel room with Allen beside her and had no memory of what happened after dinner. According to the complaint, she was bleeding and in pain and Allen insisted that she take Plan B.
Jane Doe 1 alleged that Allen continued to sexually harass and assault her afterward, including by touching her without her consent and forcing her to engage in sexual acts despite her objections. She claimed she repeatedly told Allen "no," pushed him away and tried to avoid being alone with him, but feared that resisting him could jeopardize her career because she was responsible for managing him.
While speaking with Fox News Digital, Allen vehemently denied Jane Doe 1's allegations but acknowledged that the two had a sexual relationship, which he characterized as a consensual affair that continued on and off for approximately a year and a half.
"What I want people to understand about those allegations is one, they're not true," he claimed.
"I had an affair off and on for like a year and a half with my day-to-day manager," Allen said. "And it started, then we would cut it off, and it would start, and then we will cut it off. And it slowly became one of the things where I was like, I know what I was doing was wrong, but I was afraid to end it because I didn't really know exactly how to end without one, hurting her, right, and without hurting myself. Because it's one of those things where it's like you spend so much time, go, go, go, go, go on the road. And, you know, we were around each other a lot. We were adults that made a decision."
While speaking with Fox News Digital, Allen accepted responsibility for having the extramarital relationship but denied Jane Doe 1's characterization of it as sexual abuse.
"If I would have never cheated on my wife, I wouldn't have been in that situation anyway," he said. "And that's the part that I take accountability for."
Allen and his former manager reached a settlement in 2024 in which they agreed to dismiss their respective claims against each other. Jane Doe 1's attorney said at the time that she continued to stand by her sexual assault allegations against Allen and had agreed to settle to avoid reliving the alleged abuse at trial.
While Allen maintained he never sexually assaulted either woman, he told Fox News Digital he does not consider himself blameless for the circumstances that led to the scandal.
"Did I cheat on my wife? Yes. Did I apologize to my wife? Yes. Did I owe my wife an apology? Absolutely," he said. "And I'm not going to put the blame on my life on those two individuals. Yes, they might've fabricated a story, but I still slept with them and I put myself in that position."
While speaking with Fox News Digital, Allen recalled the impact that the allegations had on his personal and professional life.
The singer said that he would tell his accusers that they "made life really hard for my kids."
Allen and Gale, who share daughters Naomi and Zara and son Cohen, initially separated and filed for divorce in April 2023, shortly before the first sexual assault lawsuit was filed against the singer. They simultaneously announced that Gale was pregnant with their third child, Cohen.
In a May 2023 Instagram post, Allen apologized to Gale for having an affair and acknowledged that his choices brought shame and humiliation to his family.
Gale gave birth to Cohen in September 2023 and the following month, Allen's representative said the divorce had not been completed and that the couple had decided to "work on things" and were still together.
The former couple's divorce was ultimately finalized in October 2024.
Allen told Fox News Digital that the "hardest conversation" that he had was with Gale. He admitted that he failed to even warn his then-wife before the first lawsuit became public.
"I handled that completely wrong," Allen said.
Allen said the fallout also affected his oldest son, Aadyn, whom he shares with a previous partner. He recalled struggling to explain why some of his son's friends stopped speaking to him or inviting him to parties after the allegations against his father became public.
The singer also recalled how his thriving career collapsed amid the scandal and worried about how he would continue providing for his children.
"Everything I've worked for is just gone," he said. "Record label gone, management gone, bookings gone, PR gone, endorsement deals gone."
He said that his mounting fears sent him into an increasingly dark place and eventually led him to contemplate taking his own life.
"Two years ago, I was riding around my truck at like three in the morning and I had my gun in my lap and I was trying to decide, do I want to live or not?" he told Fox News Digital.
Allen said he eventually sought help, turning to therapy and spending time in rehabilitation as he worked to get his mental health back on track.
He recalled that his struggles had begun well before the allegations became public. As Allen's career took off, the singer said he began taking pills to stay awake and others to keep himself in a good mood while trying to meet the demands of touring, his record label, radio, his family and fans.
Allen said that by 2021 and 2022, he felt like he was on a "train" going "a thousand miles an hour," knowing he needed to get off but unsure how.
"I would say in 2023, when that lawsuit came out, I felt like that was God derailing the train," he said. "One, it hurt because of what was being said about me. But at the same time, it literally saved my life."
"My doctor said if I had kept going, I'd have been dead in six months," Allen continued.
Allen told Fox News Digital that getting help also forced him to reconsider his relationship with music, which he admitted he had grown to hate at the height of his struggles.
However, Allen said that as he worked to rebuild his life, he also began rediscovering the love of music that he had lost.
Allen told Fox News Digital that while some relationships disappeared amid the controversy, he was surprised by the support he received from others in the entertainment industry.
"Dolly Parton being one of them," he said. "She called me, and she told me she loves me. She said, ‘Jimmie, I know who you are.’ She said, ‘Try to just keep yourself surrounded by people that love you.’"
Allen recalled Jelly Roll, Darius Rucker, Kathie Lee Gifford and Kid Rock were among others who reached out to him.
Kid Rock's support eventually extended beyond words of encouragement. The "Freedom Was a Highway" singer recently collaborated with Kid Rock on his Christian album "Halfway to Jesus," marking another step in Allen's return to recording music.
Allen recalled Kid Rock telling him, "'As Christians, we're quick to ask for forgiveness but don't want to give it.'"
The musician is also working on several projects of his own, including Christian and gospel music as well as country and R&B material. He said his approach to his career has changed dramatically from the relentless pursuit of success that he described before the allegations surfaced.
"It's not about winning Grammys or CMAs or number one records," he said. "It's about doing what I love."
When asked whether he believes Nashville is ready to give him another chance, Allen explained being accepted back into the country music establishment was not his priority.
An uncanny strength of the second Trump administration has been its ability to be involved in so many scandals that no single one seems to become a dominant story.
Take the most recent allegations about Alina Habba, Trump's former personal defense attorney, who recently landed a plush gig working for Julio Herrera Velutini, a Venezuelan banker. Habba will get $50 million over five years to do unspecified work for a company that barely exists, according toThe New York Times, while Herrera got a presidential pardon for a 2025 campaign finance charge.
But that constellation of corruption might finally be breaking through to voters ahead of next month's midterm elections.
A recent Fox News poll found that "government corruption" was the top issue for voters, ranking ahead of inflation and gas prices. Conservative commentators are taking notice.
"What they're saying is, 'Look, we're tired of you getting rich and us getting poor,'" former White House Chief of Staff Mick Mulvaney said this week.
Tim Carney, senior columnist at the conservative Washington Examiner, also tabs the corruption issue—along with other "avoidable mistakes" such as the Iran War and tariffs—as one of the major reasons why Democrats are likely to win the midterms:
Trump and his family have enriched themselves in this second term in ways more similar to third-world regimes or Cook County than to any previous administration. He and his family operate a financial company that has received heavy investments from Qatar's government. He's sold access to himself by selling otherwise worthless cryptocurrency. The IRS he controls settled a lawsuit with him, promising to pay him $1.8 billion (this settlement was voided by a judge).
Trump is not directly on the ballot next month, of course. And most voters might not be able to tell you the details of any single Trump scandal in detail. Even so, this may turn out to be the defining narrative of the second Trump administration, and there seems to be a growing consensus that Republicans have allowed (if not aided and abetted) his corrupt behavior, so it's time to give Democrats a shot at reining it in.
The Trump corruption issue is like the Biden cognitive decline issue in one key sense: Everyone around the president or even supporting him professionally from afar should be asked about it, and their lies/claims of ignorance should be hung around their necks like dumbbells.
Vice President J.D. Vance told journalist Mark Halperin this week that he's "never seen any evidence that anybody's selling access to the president." When Halperin pushed back, Vance doubled down: "What I would say is I don't think there's evidence that the Trump family has become enriched by politics," the vice president said.
So either Vance isn't paying attention, or he's deliberately misleading. "Credit to Vance, it's as good an argument as is available to him," writes Daniel Foster at National Review. "The bad news is it's still not very good."
The internet nearly crashed on Wednesday as digital security and website administrators scrambled to patch two vulnerabilities in the PHP programming language that serves as the basis for many websites.
"Since its development in the 1990s, PHP has evolved into an essential scripting language for web development and is used across vast swaths of the internet in websites and software," explainsWired. "Everything from publishing systems like WordPress and Drupal to e-commerce platforms like Adobe's Magento are built on PHP."
The potential hacking abilities of advanced AI agents make these sorts of security risks more serious. In this case, however, the problem was also identified with the help of AI.
"Ryan Austin, a researcher at Calif, uncovered the flaws with help from GPT-5.6 Sol, one of OpenAI's most advanced models, during an audit of PHP's source code in August," The Wall Street Journalreports. Another security researcher had flagged the issue years ago, but it had never been fixed because it was considered "considered too difficult to exploit" by human hackers.
This is the future of humanity's digital landscape. "Given the severity of these flaws and PHP's widespread use, we consider this one of the most impactful security issues in recent memory," OpenAI said in a statement on Wednesday. "It highlights how AI can uncover security flaws with internet-scale impact, but the same capabilities can also help attackers rapidly develop offensive tools and exploits."
(A shoutout to Reason's web development team for keeping us up and running, today and every day.)
"Fanciful fiction." Media outlets also continue to face decidedly nondigital threats over articles and polls that make the president unhappy.
The White House threatened Politico on Wednesday with unspecified "consequences" for publishing "fanciful fiction" in a series of articles earlier this month about White House Chief of Staff Susie Wiles. If the articles are not retracted, it would trigger "an immediate review of Politico's relationship with the White House, and, of course, consideration of all other appropriate and available legal remedies," wrote White House counsel William O. Scharf in a letter to the media outlet's publisher.
Meanwhile, FCC Chairman Brendan Carr issued vague threats to broadcasters who cover what Carr called "Fake Polls" intended to "alter the normal patterns of voter turnout and enthusiasm."
These sorts of threats are an affront to the First Amendment, of course. But they are downstream of a more significant issue: the very existence of the FCC.
It's a problem, obviously, that the FCC is run by an authoritarian jackass. But the bigger problem is that the agency contains so many tempting tools for an authoritarian jackass to wield. https://t.co/Q4IJXntkOy
A judge in New Mexico ordered social media giant Meta (which owns Facebook and Instagram, among other things) to pay $25 billion for misleading users about data privacy. Last month, a jury found that Meta had violated the state's consumer protection laws 43 million times.
The environmental studies for California's high-speed rail line include such absurdities as counting bumblebees "one by one" and considering the train's "acoustic impacts on waterfowl and shorebirds." That's how to spend 16 years and $15 billion building nearly nothing.
Obvious metaphor alert!
A group dispatched by Hegseth's team in February attempted to move the historic globe, said to be used by Eisenhower during World War II.
They lifted it from its home in an Army office in the Pentagon … and dropped it. pic.twitter.com/vTjWdYXn0k
Former "GMA3" co-anchors Amy Robach and T.J. Holmes are married.
The two first sparked controversy when they were spotted cuddling while still legally married.
Nearly four years later, the two are now legally wed, and their exes are engaged.
As one of the internet's favorite sayings goes: Never let your spouse stop you from finding your soulmate.
"GMA3: What You Need to Know" co-anchors T.J. Holmes and Amy Robach sparked controversy in November 2022 after their relationship became public when photos of them cuddling were published by The Daily Mail.
The relationship between the two journalists — who were legally married to other people at the time — subsequently made national headlines.
Holmes married attorney Marilee Fiebig, 49, in 2010, the same year Robach married actor Andrew Shue, 59. After the news broke, both Holmes, 49, and Robach, 53, said they were either separated or in the midst of divorce proceedings when they were photographed together.
"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 said on a December 2023 episode of their podcast, "Amy & T.J."
In October 2025, nearly three years after the first headlines about their relationship, Holmes and Robach announced on their podcast that they had gotten engaged.
One year after their engagement, Robach and Holmes married on September 19, 2026, in Holmes' home state of Arkansas, according to public marriage records. People reported the news on October 13.
In a happy twist, Shue and Fiebig are also in a relationship and have been together since December 2023. They announced their engagement just over a week after Robach and Holmes' marriage became public.
Here's a timeline of the scandal that rocked "GMA3" and led to both Holmes and Robach exiting the morning show.
Holmes and Robach did not immediately respond to a request for comment from Business Insider.
Keyaira Boone, Esme Mazzeo, and Libby Torres contributed to a prior version of this article.
November 30, 2022: The Daily Mail published photos of Robach and Holmes.
Amy Robach and T.J. Holmes at the 2022 ABC Disney Upfront in May 2022 in New York City.
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Robach and Holmes began cohosting "GMA3: What You Need to Know" in 2020, although they had worked together at ABC since Holmes' hiring in 2014.
In November 2022, The Daily Mail posted images of them together in a series of intimate situations, including having drinks in a New York bar and traveling to a cottage in the Shawangunk Mountains of upstate New York. The two were pictured laughing together, holding hands, and casually touching one another.
Shortly after, Entertainment Weekly reported that Holmes shuttered his X and Instagram accounts, and Robach deactivated her Instagram profile.
December 2022: Shue deleted pictures of Robach on his Instagram profile.
Amy Robach and Andrew Shue attended The Breast Cancer Research Foundation in New York City in 2015.
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Shue's account was wiped of pictures of his wife the day after The Daily Mail published their photos of Robach and Holmes, E! News reported.
December 2022: An interview with Robach and Reese Witherspoon from earlier in the year resurfaced, hinting at similarities between "GMA3" and "The Morning Show."
Reese Witherspoon and Amy Robach also spoke on-camera in 2015.
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An October 2022 interview between Robach and Witherspoon resurfaced on Twitter, reminding viewers that the host had once possibly hinted at drama occurring behind-the-scenes of "GMA3."
Witherspoon, who was promoting her Apple TV+ drama "The Morning Show," asked Robach and her co-hosts whether the fictional workplace drama "hit home a little bit."
"We can give you a few more plot lines," Robach replied, as her colleagues laughed. Witherspoon jumped on the opportunity to take the show's stories to the next level.
"Email me," she told Robach.
December 2022: "GMA3" staffers said Robach and Holmes did not start dating until they were separated from their spouses.
Amy Robach and T.J. Holmes ran the New York Marathon together this year.
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People reported that Holmes and Robach were both effectively single when they began dating, citing sources.
"This was two consenting adults who were each separated. They both broke up with their spouses in August within weeks of each other," a source said.
"The relationship didn't start until after that," they added.
Meanwhile, the two anchors continued filming. On December 2, they even joked about what "a great week" they were having in a sarcastic tone, according to Page Six.
December 5, 2022: Robach and Holmes were pulled off the air.
Amy Robach and T.J. Holmes host the show in and out of the studio.
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Robach and Holmes were placed on hiatus from "GMA3" amid the scandal. The New York Times reported ABC News' then-president, Kim Godwin, called the news frenzy surrounding their relationship an "internal and external distraction" on a morning editorial call.
It came amid claims from staffers that Holmes had engaged in relationships with other colleagues at ABC during his time there, while married. He has not publicly commented on the accusations.
December 28, 2022: Holmes filed for divorce.
Holmes has begun the process of ending his marriage to Fiebig.
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Holmes filed for divorce from Fiebig in New York. They were married for nearly 13 years and share one daughter, Sabine.
On the same day the news broke, Holmes and Robach were photographed making out in Miami.
January 2023: Holmes' estranged wife, Marilee Fiebig, spoke out via her divorce lawyer for the first time since the scandal broke.
Marilee Fiebig issued a statement through her attorney in January.
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"Marilee's sole focus has remained on the overall best interest of her 9-year-old daughter," Stephanie Lehman, Fiebig's lawyer, told The Daily Mail.
She confirmed that the divorce between Fiebig and Holmes was progressing. "To that end, T.J.'s lawyer and I have been working together to move their divorce forward privately, expeditiously, and as amicably as possible," Lehman continued.
Lehman criticized Holmes' public actions.
"Notwithstanding, we continue to be disappointed by T.J.'s lack of discretion, respect, and sensitivity toward Marilee and the party's daughter," she added.
The divorce was ultimately settled in October 2023, People reported.
January 27, 2023: Holmes and Robach exited "GMA3" permanently.
TJ Holmes and Amy Robach running in New York City in 2021.
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In late January 2023, TMZ was the first to report that the co-anchors were preparing to officially exit "GMA3."
The same day as the reports, Holmes' and Robach's exits were confirmed. In a statement given to Business Insider, ABC said that Holmes and Robach were officially leaving the network.
"After several productive conversations with Amy Robach and T.J. Holmes, about different options, we all agreed it's best for everyone that they move on from ABC News," a spokesperson for the network said. "We recognize their talent and commitment over the years and are thankful for their contributions."
December 1, 2023: Robach and Holmes made their red-carpet debut as a couple.
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The two attended KIIS FM's iHeartRadio Jingle Ball 2023 together. They showed plenty of PDA in their first public appearance as a couple.
December 5, 2023: Robach and Holmes released the first episode of their podcast, a year to the day after their relationship was publicly revealed.
T.J. Holmes and Amy Robach in 2022.
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During the first episode of "Amy & T.J.," the former anchors emphasized that they were both separated from their respective partners when their relationship began.
"To be clear, we were outed as being in a relationship," Holmes said on the podcast. "But everyone else thought we were being outed as adulterers, being outed as cheating on our spouses, and it wasn't the case."
Robach, for her part, said her close friends knew she was in the middle of divorcing Shue when the photos of her and Holmes leaked in November 2022.
"I took my ring off early August. It was very clear to anyone who knew me that I was in the middle of a divorce," she said.
Holmes also acknowledged that the couple probably could have gone about things differently.
"We shouldn't have allowed — and I could say that in hindsight — for folks to find out about our relationship before they found out about our divorces," he said.
But Robach said they were trying to protect their families from potential backlash.
"We thought we were protecting our children and our families, and we thought we had time," she said. "And we thought we had a right to privacy. And maybe that was foolish and silly."
December 5, 2023: The same day the podcast launched, reports surfaced that Robach's and Holmes' exes were dating.
Marilee Fiebig and Andrew Shue pictured in 2024.
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Page Six first reported that Robach's ex, Andrew Shue, and Holmes' ex, Marilee Fiebig, had been dating for about six months.
People reported that they "bonded over their shared experience of splitting from their partners," citing a source.
March 17, 2024: Holmes and Robach ran the New York City Half Marathon together.
Amy Robach and T.J. Holmes participate in the United Airlines NYC Half Marathon on March 17, 2024 in New York City. The course starts in Brooklyn and ends in Central Park in Manhattan.
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As running has been part of their relationship for years, the two continued their tradition by participating in the NYC Half Marathon in March 2024.
Robach called the day "13.1 miles of pure joy" on Instagram.
September 30, 2024: Holmes and Robach announced they had moved in together.
T.J. Holmes and Amy Robach attend iHeartRadio z100's Jingle Ball 2023 Presented By Capital One at Madison Square Garden on December 08, 2023
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The decision to move in together was spurred by Robach's then-21-year-old daughter, Ava, who asked to temporarily move into her mom's apartment due to a roach infestation.
"I've just said, 'Hey y'all, knock yourselves out. I'll be at T.J.'s,' " Robach said on their podcast.
This led to the two officially cohabitating.
"I've enjoyed the time that we've had together. It's been a little different, but I've liked it," Holmes said.
In February 2025, Us Weekly reported that their exes, Shue and Fiebig, had moved in together as well.
October 14, 2025: They announced they are engaged.
TJ Holmes and Amy Robach attend the 2024 iHeartRadio Music Awards at Dolby Theatre on April 01, 2024
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In a four-minute minisode of their podcast, Robach and Holmes shared the news that they are officially engaged — and had been for around a month.
"I was in three massive football stadiums three weekends in a row, wearing my engagement ring very proudly, very excitedly, and kept waiting for somebody to point it out or ask me, 'Hey, what's that?' And it never happened," Robach said.
Holmes added that if any news about the proposal came out from anyone besides them or "the 10 people" they told, it was nonsense.
September 19, 2026: They get married in Arkansas.
NEW YORK, NEW YORK - MARCH 15: TJ Holmes and Amy Robach pose after crossing the finish line during the 2026 United Airlines NYC Half Marathon in Central Park on March 15, 2026 in New York City. (Photo by Bryan Bedder/New York Road Runners via Getty Images)
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According to a wedding license obtained by People, Holmes and Robach applied for the license the day prior. They tied the knot in Arkansas, where Holmes was born and where his alma mater, the University of Arkansas, is located.
October 13, 2026: News of their wedding becomes public.
NEW YORK, NEW YORK - DECEMBER 12: TJ Holmes and Amy Robach attend the 2025 Z100 Jingle Ball at Madison Square Garden on December 12, 2025 in New York City. (Photo by Taylor Hill/FilmMagic)
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The license was filed with the County Clerk's office in Washington County on October 13, which is how the news of their marriage became public. They have not commented on their marriage yet, but they've talked about it before.
During a May 2026 episode of their podcast, they shared that they had picked a date and "a way" they wanted to get married that "would be very special to us," but didn't give details. "We can't say what that is. That's a big thing for us."
October 21, 2026: Shue and Fiebig announce their engagement.
NEW YORK, NY - MARCH 1: Marilee Fiebig and Andrew Shue are seen walking home after having dinner at ' The Fulton' on March 1, 2024 in New York, New York. (Photo by MEGA/GC Images)
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On October 21, Shue confirmed to People that he and Fiebeg were engaged after three years of dating.
"I don't know how it happened, but there's a happy ending," he said. "I don't think there was anything other than this just happened to be our way of getting to know each other and being able to share ourselves with each other in a time where we both needed a friend," he added, referring to how they first met.
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