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TJ Holmes, Amy Robach and David Muir
Getty Images (2)TJ Holmes and Amy Rob he defends himself David Muir after facing widespread opposition for using a clothes peg on his fireproof jacket while reporting on wildfires in Los Angeles.
Holmes, 47, and Robach, 51, who previously worked with Muir at ABC, gave their take on the incident during Friday’s episode of their 10th podcast. “Does this make me look fat?”
Muir, 51, came under fire when viewers spotted a pin clutching his jacket on Wednesday (January 8) and accused him of being more concerned with how he looked on TV than the natural disaster he was covering.
Holmes defended Muir against this allegation, arguing that the news anchor may not even have known about it the existence of clothes pegs.
David Muir faces backlash for sewing his fireproof jacket. Fans are upset with ABC news anchor Muir, 51, after he appeared to grab his waist with clothespins while covering the devastating wildfires in Los Angeles on Wednesday, January 8. (…)
“If you’re just reading tweets, perspective can be missing. The perspective can be missing in that often – and I don’t know if he – you travel with a producer or even a wardrobe whose job is – you can look at your phone, get the latest information, look at notes or when you’re doing something, and people on you they’re stretching and hooking things up, the microphone and the IFB (in-ear monitor) and all that stuff,” Holmes explained. “You don’t even know what’s going on with you, and someone could have decided ‘Let me do this to the jacket.’ We don’t know.”
Holmes said that despite using clothes pegs, he believed Muir to be an incredibly hard worker.
He continued: “But just a bit of context, this guy works his ass off. You don’t like what he did, fine. There’s just a lot to pile on.’
However, Holmes admitted that it didn’t look too bad for the TV journalist when he was caught worrying about the superficial aspects of reporting on the event, people lost their lives and homes.
David Muir
ABC“The idea that people – even in the midst of a tragedy – who are going to anchor a primetime evening broadcast could care less about what they look like is simply unreasonable. Now how much they should care and how much they should look like they care is a separate question, but of course he needs to care and pay attention to how he looks before he goes on TV ,” said Holmes. “But when your house was on fire and you see this guy with the mirror combing his hair, doing all that before he goes on the air and reports on your tragedy, it pisses you off.”
Meanwhile, Robach admitted that when she reports from the trip, she usually tries not to look too “glamorous” by keeping her hair and makeup simple.
David Muir’s wild fire ensemble was apparently short-lived. Muir, 51, headlined the Thursday, Jan. 9 broadcast of World News Tonight from Los Angeles, reporting on the ongoing wildfires ravaging the city. He wore a flame retardant yellow jacket over a black T-shirt, left his coat unbuttoned and appeared to have skipped the now-viral clothespin that (…)
“As a journalist, I was very careful not to appear to care about what I looked like at that moment,” she said. “We all look different at the scene of these kinds of tragedies than we do on set. On set we have hair and makeup and nice suits and fitted clothes, but when you’re out there, it’s just a very different environment.”
Robach also defended Muir against the backlash he’s been receiving, saying she doesn’t believe he deserves it.
“I don’t think he deserves the hate he’s getting… I don’t think it’s fair or appropriate in any way — and especially from people who have never had to be on television every day where your image is constantly changing and your appearance. to be criticized or recognized, so you can be overly aware of it,” she said.
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