19 Facts About Amy Robach

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Amy Joanne Robach was born on February 6,1973 and is an American television reporter formerly for ABC News.

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Amy Robach served as a national correspondent for NBC News from 2003 to 2007, and became co-host of the Saturday edition of NBC's Today as well as anchor on MSNBC from 2007 to 2012.

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From May 2012 to January 2023, Amy Robach worked for ABC News.

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Amy Robach was a contributor for Good Morning America from May 2012 until March 2020, when she became the host of Pandemic: What You Need to Know, a show created in response to the COVID-19 Pandemic.

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Amy Robach's family moved again to Georgia, where she attended high school and college.

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Amy Robach graduated from Brookwood High School in Snellville, Georgia, and from the University of Georgia with high honors in broadcast journalism.

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Amy Robach was 4th runner-up in the 1995 Miss Georgia pageant.

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Amy Robach then left the station in 1999, and started working at WTTG in Washington, DC, then moved to MSNBC in 2003 where she spent four years, including a stint anchoring two hours in the morning, and filling in on Weekend Today, Countdown with Keith Olbermann and Morning Joe.

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Amy Robach was named co-anchor of Weekend Today in July 2007.

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Amy Robach initially appeared on ABC's Good Morning America as a correspondent.

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Amy Robach became the show's news anchor on March 31,2014.

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Amy Robach's comments came just two days after an NPR story disclosed the existence of an on-camera interview with Virginia Roberts Giuffre and ABC's failure to broadcast it.

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Amy Robach is a cousin of former Nashville Star contestant Matt Lindahl.

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Amy Robach was married to Tim McIntosh from 1996 until filing for an uncontested divorce in 2008.

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Amy Robach became engaged to former Melrose Place star Andrew Shue in September 2009.

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On November 11,2013, Amy Robach revealed on Good Morning America that she had been diagnosed with breast cancer after receiving a mammogram on live television on October 1,2013, and after undergoing follow-up tests.

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Amy Robach took time off from broadcasting to undergo a bilateral mastectomy.

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On November 22,2013, Amy Robach revealed that during the surgery, doctors found a second malignant tumor in her other breast and that the cancer had spread to her lymph nodes.

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Amy Robach then underwent eight rounds of chemotherapy, radiation and reconstructive surgery.