TJ Holmes Had 18 Drinks A Day In 2023, Doing Dry January With Amy Robach

By Emily Richardson | Celebrity | January 12, 2024 |

By Emily Richardson | Celebrity | January 12, 2024 |

Former GMA3 hosts/lovahs TJ Holmes and Amy Robach have a podcast. On that podcast, they talk about their highly publicized affair relationship, the fallout from the scandal, their sex life, finances, and extremely blended families. Basically, anything that’ll make headlines.

On yesterday’s episode of Amy and TJ, the couple talked about doing Dry January together after a particularly boozy 2023. TJ admits that, last year, he “easily” went through 18 drinks a day. This number seemed high to Amy, but TJ insists his math is right. He explains that the couple would take part in daily “runs to fun,” where’d they’d run several miles and end up at a bar, via Page Six:

“Now, we will run at 8 or 9 in the morning …. and I come back and we have a beer,” Holmes explained, noting that due to the “runs to fun” he is typically already “two drinks in” by lunchtime.

Then, once lunch comes around, they typically have at least two more drinks unless they have errands to run. From there, Holmes said he could “easily have a drink in [his] hand from two in the afternoon until seven, eight, nine, ten at night.”

“So you do those numbers and that’s a drink an hour for another eight hours — or even less — but that is another eight hours of a drink in hand, plus the four I had during the day,” he continued.

TJ explains that he isn’t necessarily pouring 18 new drinks throughout the day; he’s accounting for constant, heavy refills. Amy says she also drank way too much in 2023, and is embarrassed to admit she imbibed in “over 30 drinks a week”:

“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 explained. “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.”

Amy insists she wasn’t getting “wasted” or “drunk” every day, but rather “keeping a buzz going all day or keeping a heightened state of mind during an anxious year.” She also reflects on her history with alcohol: she binge-drank on and off in high school and college, didn’t drink much in her twenties (she couldn’t afford it), and then got super into “wine mom” culture when she had her kids. Amy says that’s when she became “a moderate to heavy drinker.”

TJ gathered his and Amy’s receipts from December, and calculated that they spent $2,869 on alcohol alone in one month. He jokes that he thought that the number would be higher. The couple agrees they both need to reexamine their relationships with alcohol and encourage their listeners to do the same. Here’s the episode trailer:

@amyandtjpodcast It’s Dry January for Amy and T.J. It has forced them to take a hard look at their relationship with alcohol. Amy and T.J. get personal with you, admitting that their drinking became excessive in 2023. Will they stop drinking for good? #amyandtj #amyandtjpodcast #amyrobach #tjholmes #dryjanuary ♬ original sound - AMY AND TJ

And you can listen to the full episode here.