Amy Robach

Amy Robach was the 3rd runner-up in the Miss Georgia pageant in 1994. She won the Miss Grinnett County title the same year.

In 1996, she married Tim McIntosh, a New Zealand cricket player, but the marriage ended in divorce in 2008. They have two daughters—Annalise and Ava.

She is currently married to Andrew Shue, an American actor. Andrew had starred on ‘Melrose Place’ as Billy Campbell. They got engaged in September 2009 after they met at a book launch party and married the following year. Actress Elisabeth Shue, who starred in ‘Back to the Future’, is her sister-in-law.

Amy Robach was born on February 6, 1973, in East Lansing, Michigan, USA. She spent half of her childhood in St. Louis, Missouri, and the next nine years in Georgia. She also grew up in South Carolina, Washington, D.C., and New York City. She stayed in Atlanta, GA, just before high school.

She went to Brookwood High School in Snellville, Georgia, and graduated from the University of Georgia with high honors in Broadcast Journalism.

In 1995, Amy Robach started her career as a general assignment reporter at WCBD-TV, the NBC-affiliated television station in Charleston, South Carolina. She covered the aftermath of Hurricane Mitch from Honduras, and reported from Iceland to cover the transport of ‘Keiko,’ the killer whale, while he was being taken to his native waters in a Charleston Air Force cargo plane.

She also reported live from the locations of hurricanes Bertha, Fran and Bonnie as they devastated the North Carolina coast. As a crime reporter, she also witnessed the death of a man, who was convicted of triple murders, by lethal injection. He had been sitting on death row for over 20 years. She left WCBD-TV in 1999.

In 1999, she moved to Washington, DC, and joined WTTG-TV, a Fox owned-and-operated television station, where she worked as a reporter and morning and noon anchor. She reported live from the Pentagon while covering the war with Iraq. She also covered the aftermath of 9/11, and contributed to the Edward R. Murrow award-winning broadcast, covering the Serial Sniper attacks. She departed WTTG-TV in 2003.

In 2003, she joined NBC News, where she worked for nine years. She was an anchor for MSNBC from 2003-07.Eventually, she climbed up the ladder and became the co-anchor of ‘Saturday Today’ in 2007, and also an NBC News National Correspondent. She also filled in as ‘Weekday Today’ co-anchor, ‘Weekday’ newsreader, and anchor for NBC ‘Nightly News with Brian Williams’.

During her nine years at NBC, she interviewed major political figures like Barack Obama in 2004, Senator John McCain, Speaker Nancy Pelosi, and Speaker Newt Gingrich. She also interviewed Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.

In November 2013, Amy Robach revealed on ‘Good Morning America’ that she had been diagnosed with breast cancer. Prior to the announcement, on October 1, 2013, she had a mammogram on live television. She took some time off from broadcasting to undergo a bilateral mastectomy.

The cancer was classified as Stage IIB, as during the surgery, doctors found a second malignant tumor in her other breast, indicating that the cancer had spread to her lymph nodes. She underwent eight rounds of chemotherapy, radiation, and reconstruction surgery. As of 2017, she is healthy and cancer-free.