George Stephanopoulos turns into the newest within the Good Morning America crew to take time without work the present, marking his absence on the newest installment of the morning information present.
The TV information anchor, 63, joined fellow co-hosts Michael Strahan and Robin Roberts in doing the identical, each of whom have taken time without work GMA over the week as nicely.
On the June 26 version of the present, Rebecca Jarvis took heart stage on the anchors’ desk, flanked by GMA Weekends anchor Gio Benitez and Linsey Davis.
Whereas not one of the hosts have explicitly said the explanation for his or her absence, with George particularly, it presumably ties again to a loss of life within the household. His father, Rev. Dr. Robert G. Stephanopoulos, handed away on the age of 89 on June 19.
The anchor quietly grieved his father’s loss off the present, even returning to set for the early a part of this week, though it was his spouse Ali Wentworth who broke the information on social media final weekend.
In remembrance of her father-in-law, she shared a few of the candy reminiscences he’d made along with her, his son, and his granddaughters, their ladies Elliott and Harper, and wrote: “Reverend Robert George Stephanopoulos, PhD, Dean Emeritus Archdiocesan Cathedral of the Holy Trinity handed away on June nineteenth.”
© Getty Photos“He was my father-in-law and I cherished him dearly. He married us. He laughed with us. He debated our daughters. He praised my Thanksgiving turkey. He cherished ice cream. He was everybody’s council. He married or baptized nearly each Greek on the jap seaboard. He was held within the highest regard. He shall be missed by so many. Sagapo Father Bob.”
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George, Ali, and different family members are presumably in Ohio at the moment for the late Stephanopoulos’ liturgy and funeral providers. George’s mom Nikki additionally handed away final yr.
The previous White Home communications director and his three siblings, Anastasia, Marguarite, and Andrew, had been all born in Fall River, Massachusetts to their Greek Orthodox mother and father, earlier than shifting to Rye, New York when George was 5 years previous.
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The obituary highlighted the late Reverend’s years of service and his devotion to his household, studying: “Over greater than half a century within the ministry, Father Robert touched numerous lives.”
© ABC/Michael Lebrecht III“He recommended younger {couples} considering marriage, celebrated their weddings and baptisms, cried with them on the funerals of family members. His legacy lives via them, his surviving kids Mom Agapia, George, Marguarite, and Andrew — his daughter in legislation, Alexandra Wentworth, and his grandchildren Elliott and Harper Stephanopoulos.”
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As for the opposite anchors, Robin final appeared on the present for a reside section shot in Portugal final week, bringing her adored crew, dubbed her “Glam Fam,” plus her spouse Amber Laign alongside for the journey.
© InstagramMichael, then again, who was on the present earlier this week, is presumably making the perfect of summer time trip time together with his household, together with his girlfriend Kayla Fast and his twin daughters Sophia and Isabella, who lately marked the completion of her chemotherapy.
