ABC News is planning to blend Good Morning America more seamlessly with its spinoff GMA3 following the announcements on Monday that co-hosts DeMarco Morgan and Eva Pilgrim are departing the show.
Pilgrim is exiting for a new gig as host of Inside Edition. Morgan “has decided to begin a new journey and will be departing ABC News,” ABC News president Almin Karamehmedovic wrote in a memo to staffers.
The immediate plan is for the show to continue what it has been doing in recent weeks, with members of the Good Morning America “extended family” of personalities taking hosting duties on the show. They have included figures such as Lara Spencer, Will Reeve, Gio Benitez, Sam Champion, Rachel Scott and James Longman. Status newsletter first reported on the exit of the two GMA3 hosts.
Last year, Karamehmedovic announced a cost-cutting restructuring of the news division that saw the exit of Cat McKenzie as executive producer, with Simone Swink, executive producer of Good Morning America, taking over supervision of the show. The strategy has been to capitalize on the viewer familiarity with Good Morning America in the GMA3 hour.
GMA3 has gone through a number of host and format changes through the years. It started as GMA Day in 2018, hosted by Michael Strahan and Sara Haines. During Covid, it focused on the pandemic with the title What You Need to Know, and later evolved into GMA: What You Need to Know.
Morgan and Pilgrim have hosted the show since 2023, when they, along with Jennifer Ashton, succeeded Amy Robach and TJ Holmes. Ashton departed the network last year.
