{"id":2310445,"date":"2026-03-03T15:31:19","date_gmt":"2026-03-03T15:31:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/?p=2310445"},"modified":"2026-03-03T15:31:19","modified_gmt":"2026-03-03T15:31:19","slug":"how-good-morning-america-has-dealt-with-its-hosts-setbacks-troubles-tragedies-on-air","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/how-good-morning-america-has-dealt-with-its-hosts-setbacks-troubles-tragedies-on-air\/","title":{"rendered":"How \u2018Good Morning America\u2019 Has Dealt With Its Hosts\u2019 Setbacks, Troubles & Tragedies on Air"},"content":{"rendered":"

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As with their rivals at NBC<\/a>, the hosts of ABC\u2019s Good Morning America<\/a> have gone public with the challenges they and their colleagues have faced over the years \u2014 including the loved ones\u2019 deaths, health scares, and at least one financial flap. Other times, though the GMA<\/a> team stays tight-lipped. In one of the cases detailed below, the behind-the-scenes drama was kept off air. Here\u2019s how GMA has addressed \u2014 or not addressed \u2014 events affecting its talent. 1996: Joan Lunden<\/a>\u2019s friend\u2019s death In 1996, near the end of her run as GMA co-anchor, Joan Lunden reported on the crash of Twa Flight 800 and said she was friends with one of the victims,…<\/div>\n

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As with their rivals at NBC, the hosts of ABC\u2019s Good Morning America have gone public with the challenges they and their colleagues have faced over the years \u2014 including the loved ones\u2019 deaths, health scares, and at least one financial flap. Other times, though the GMA team stays tight-lipped. In one of the cases […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2310446,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[25177],"tags":[25538,31714,21751,22556,21993,22860,21912,21738,24141,22205,21913],"class_list":["post-2310445","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-celebrities","tag-actors","tag-actresses","tag-celebrities","tag-directors","tag-films","tag-hollywood","tag-movies","tag-news","tag-stars","tag-television","tag-tv"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/How-\u2018Good-Morning-America-Has-Dealt-With-Its-Hosts-Setbacks.png","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2310445","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2310445"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2310445\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2310447,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2310445\/revisions\/2310447"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2310446"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2310445"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2310445"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2310445"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}