T.J. Holmes ‘appalled’ by how much he drank after romance backlash

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Alcohol can be your best friend/worst enemby while dealing with life drama.

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Former “GMA3: What You Need to Know” host T.J. Holmes said he could’ve easily downed 18 boozy drinks in a day after receiving backlash for his romance with co-host Amy Robach.

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Holmes and Robach talked about how much they drank last year during this week’s episode of their podcast, Amy & T.J., stating they were “appalled” by the volume.

The couple called 2023 their “pandemic” after losing their GMA3 hosting gigs when their romance was made public.

“I didn’t have a job to go to and I was away from a lot of friends and family. We were laying low. So what did I do? I drank a lot,” Robach said, per Page Six. “A lot more than I ever have. I don’t think I have ever gone a full year where I drink every single day and that was 2023 for me.”

Robach, 50, said while she wasn’t getting drunk or wasted daily, she kept a buzz going or had a “heightened state of mind during an anxious year.”

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Holmes, 46, said he needs to reexamine his relationship with booze, adding he could “easily go through 18 drinks” a day during that time.

The pair are known to be avid runners, and said they would go out for “runs for fun” in the morning where they’d travel for several miles and “end at a bar” by lunchtime.

During lunch they would have two more drinks unless they were busy with errands. Holmes said after that he could have a drink or two in his hand “in the afternoon until seven, eight, nine, 10 at night.”

The pair said they have “official guidelines” for their drinking where one drink is one beer or a five-ounce glass of wine and half ounces of liquor. While it’s not really having 18 drinks as Holmes suggested, it’s rather describing heavy pours of booze.

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Alcohol consumption doesn’t come cheap, and Holmes said they spent US$2,869 on booze last December alone.

Robach and Holmes told listeners they wanted to be open and honest about their relationship with alcohol and encouraged them to do the same. Holmes is currently participating in Dry January and Robach said it’s her first time doing the challenge, which sees individuals abstain from alcohol for a month.

Robach said she didn’t know if she could’ve done Dry January if Holmes hadn’t previously participated in it.

“I don’t know that I would have felt comfortable or, honestly this may sound crazy, but I don’t know if I would have felt brave enough or courageous enough to say, ‘I am 100% going cold turkey this month,’ if you hadn’t said, ‘I’m doing it and we can do it together,’” she said.

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