I don’t know if you guys have noticed, but people really seem to hate cheating. Similarly, people also seem to really hate cheaters! And if public cheating scandals have taught us anything, it’s that we also kind of love to hate these things! But if there’s any exemption from the gleeful stoning in the internet’s town square we spend a few days doling out every time someone’s husband gets caught on a jumbotron with someone else’s wife (metaphorically speaking), it’s if cheating results in a true love-sanctioned happily ever after.

As The Cut suggested last year, cheating seems to be viewed as more okay “if you end up with your soulmate”—à la Allie and Noah in The Notebook. But while society’s default fire and brimstone condemnation of infidelity seems to soften if that infidelity is done for the sake of true love, it’s awfully hard for the suspects of a real-life cheating scandal to prove their extramarital indiscretions were the result of such seemingly excusable intentions without the flattering context of a fictional narrative in which they’re literally the main characters whose affair ends in marriage. But by god, I think this Good Morning America couple may have just pulled it off.

As you may recall, back in 2022, former co-anchors T.J. Holmes and Amy Robach came under fire when multiple outlets reported the colleagues were engaged in a workplace affair while both were still with their respective partners. (Both Holmes and Robach have repeatedly claimed they were separated from their spouses before beginning their relationship—but as you might imagine, that version of the story didn’t exactly stick.) The pair were subsequently let go from the network and went on to hard-launch their relationship on Instagram and start a podcast together. Meanwhile, the controversy eventually died down and everyone pretty much forgot about the happy couple no one was rooting for. Until yesterday, that is, when, nearly three years after the initial scandal broke, Holmes and Robach announced their engagement…on their very own podcast, no less!

Now, am I expecting a podcast engagement announcement to turn these two into a regular Taylor and Travis in the eyes of society? Not for a second! I’m sure most people are currently wishing them nothing but the worst and commenting things like, “Once a cheater always a cheater” and “You lose ’em how you get ’em” as I type this.

But hear me out, because here’s where this cheating scandal turned podcast engagement announcement gets a little more interesting than most. Back in 2023, news broke that Robach’s and Holmes’s respective exes, Andrew Shue and Marilee Fiebig, had “bonded over their shared heartbreak” and started a relationship of their own?! The unlikely couple made their red carpet debut a year later in 2024 and as of February 2025, appear to still be a couple and have reportedly even moved in together. Which, IDK, kind of seems like a happily ever after for everyone involved!

Listen, I’m not here to condone cheating. It’s just that this completely bonkers affair seems to have resulted in not one but two mismatched happy endings like some kind of trippy Midsummer Night’s Dream–ass fairytale and I am, frankly, gagged. If nothing else, you have to respect the chaos!

Obviously, I have no idea where these two partner-swapped couples currently stand with each other. If I had to guess, I would assume they’re probably not besties! Still, I like to imagine a world in which they’ve all made peace with the situation in a “free love,” late-series Mad Men–coded way and Sheu and Fiebig will be the best man and maid of honor at the wedding.

Okay, okay, I know. Look, am I saying this means cheating is a good thing? No, of course not. But am I saying I would like to join these four for fondue and psychedelics in someone’s sunken living room and see where the night takes us? No comment.