its permanent GMA3 has officially replaced the former co-hosts t.j. holmes and amy robach after the duo were fired when news of their affair broke in November 2022. Eva Pilgrim and DeMarco Morgan will take over hosting roles.
“I am incredibly proud of Eva’s reporting [Pilgrim]From Marco [Morgan] and gio [Benitez] have brought ABC News,” the president of ABC News Kim Godwin announced on Thursday, May 11. “They join their colleagues Whit [Johnson]janai [Norman] and Dr. Jen [Ashton] whose steadfast commitment to bold and direct journalism has been integral to the success of their respective programs.”
Read on to find out more about the new morning duo, Eva and DeMarco.
Who is Eva Pilgrim?
Born in Seoul, South Korea, Eva has decades of experience as a broadcast journalist, beginning with her education at the University of Florida and the University of South Carolina. She traveled the country working for local news stations in Indianapolis, Philadelphia, and Charlotte, North Carolina, before landing a position with ABC News in 2015.
In 2021, Eva published a children’s book titled Walter does the best he can: a French adventure in Kindness and Muddy Paws.
“From a young age, Eva’s mother taught her that this guy was the best he could be, and Eva still lives by that philosophy,” her author bio reads. “She wants young people to know that kindness is a strength and that we all have the opportunity to make the world brighter, one action at a time.”
Eva is married to the marketing director. ed hartiganand the couple share their 19-month-old daughter Ella.
Who is DeMarco Morgan?
DeMarco was born in Tulsa, Oklahoma, and moved to New York to attend Columbia University’s Graduate School of Journalism. Like his co-host, DeMarco moved across the country after graduation to work at smaller news stations in Jackson, Mississippi, Milwaukee, Wisconsin, and Miami, Florida, before returning to the Big Apple to work at NBC.
After a couple more moves across the country, most recently with CBS in Los Angeles, DeMarco joined ABC News.
“I will say thank you to everyone behind the scenes,” he said during his last CBS broadcast in April 2023. “Thank you to so many people who wake up in the middle of the night just to make sure I look good. This has been a wonderful journey. … I was telling someone last night, ‘There was a little kid in Tulsa, Oklahoma with a curl in the second grade who was watching the space shuttle Challenger explode, and he was watching Dan Rather and that’s when he got bit by the broadcast. bug.'”
