The clock is ticking on “Good Morning America 3” hosts DeMarco Morgan and Eva Pilgrim as community brass look to shake up the ratings-challenged present, The Submit has realized.
ABC Information president Almin Karamehmedovic will doubtless substitute the anchors of the third hour of the marquee morning present by the tip of the summer time, in keeping with a supply with direct information.
The pair took over the 1 p.m. time slot in 2023 following the scandalous affair between married co-anchors T.J. Holmes and Amy Robach.
The doable overhaul comes after ABC Information laid off “GMA3” workers final month and consolidated its manufacturing below “GMA.”
On the time, Karamehmedovic assured staffers that the present wouldn’t be axed.
Nonetheless, one supply speculated that Karamehmedovic will pull the plug on Morgan and Pilgrim, and presumably herald new anchors and even faucet the highly-paid trio from the “GMA” mothership: Robin Roberts, Michael Strahan and George Stephanopoulos.
“’GMA3′ received’t be there on the finish of the summer time,” the insider mentioned, referring to the present hosts.
ABC Information declined to touch upon Morgan and Pilgrim’s future.
“What we have now mentioned from the start is that we’re unifying all day elements below the GMA umbrella and group and that features seeing all members of the prolonged GMA household within the third hour,’ a spokesperson instructed The Submit on Tuesday.
“The third hour is a valued a part of the GMA franchise. Robin, George and Michael have been on earlier than and they’re going to proceed to be featured,” the rep concluded.
Morgan and Pilgrim haven’t made waves as hosts — aside from Morgan, whose attention-grabbing Instagram photographs have set social media abuzz.
The Submit solely reported final yr that ABC Information execs have been alarmed over a sequence of provocative photographs of Morgan posing in skin-tight biker shorts, by which the anchor’s “package deal” was on full show.
The racy pics, sadly, haven’t goosed “GMA 3’s” rankings, which have usually hovered between 1.3 and 1.5 million complete viewers over the previous yr and a half.
In the previous couple of months of Robach and Holmes’ tenure, rankings have been within the 1.7 million-viewer vary.
However ABC Information’ viewership woes additionally lengthen to its crown jewel, “GMA,” which has been below main strain in latest months as rankings development down for all TV exhibits.
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The perennial morning present winner has struggled to keep up its supremacy over NBC’s “Immediately” present in latest months.
What’s extra, there are rumors {that a} main expertise shake up could possibly be within the offing at “GMA.”
As beforehand reported by The Submit, the community could pull the plug on Stephanopoulos, who has been “depressing” after he was pressured to apologize as a part of the community’s defamation lawsuit settlement with President Trump.
“He’s undoubtedly gone,” the insider predicted on the time. “He’s a useless man strolling for positive.”
There are additionally rumors that Strahan could step away from the present when his contract expires later this yr. The previous New York Giants star and Fox NFL Sunday analyst is seeking to concentrate on his sports activities commentary profession. He additionally needs to dedicate extra time to his teenage daughter Isabella, who’s preventing a uncommon mind most cancers, in keeping with a report from NewsNation.
