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GMA host Robin Roberts reveals she's gay in thank you letter to fans and 'long time girlfriend'
Daily Mail ^ | December 29, 2013

Posted on 12/29/2013 11:49:48 PM PST by Pinkbell

Good Morning America host Robin Roberts publicly acknowledged that she is gay on Sunday for the first time.

The 53-year-old cancer survivor thanked her girlfriend of ten years as part of a heartfelt end-of-year thank you addressed to fans and loved ones posted to her Facebook.

'I am grateful for my entire family, my long time girlfriend, Amber, and friends as we prepare to celebrate a glorious new year together,' Roberts wrote.

Amber, reports Media Bistro, is Amber Laign, a message therapists who helps patients recuperate from injuries.

Roberts' sexuality has been known to her family, friends and co-workers for some time but this is the first time the television personality has spoken of that aspect of her personal life publicly.

In 2012 Roberts was diagnosed with the blood disorder myelodysplastic syndrome and took a medical leave of absence from Good Morning America.

She returned to the show in February 2013 and won a Peabody Award the same year for Robin's Journey, a series of TV reports that chronicled her battle against MDS.

Five years earlier she had been treated for breast cancer.

In the mean time, her letter of gratitude appears at a time when Roberts has quite a bit to be thankful for.

According to the New York Post, the Good Morning America darling inked a new long-term deal with ABC for a reported $10 million and $14 million.

ABC News released this statement shortly after Roberts' post appeared on Facebook:

'We love Robin and Amber, who we have all known for a long time. We were so touched by her Facebook message today and so thankful for all the loving support she has in her life.'

(Excerpt) Read more at dailymail.co.uk ...


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I didn't know this, but it doesn't really surprise me. Of course ABC loves it. While I don't agree with her lifestyle, I will say that she has handled cancer with tremendous strength, and I do wish her good health in the future.
1 posted on 12/29/2013 11:49:48 PM PST by Pinkbell
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I accidentally put ABC News instead of Daily Mail. I guess I was thinking ABC because that’s where Robin Roberts works. Can you change it? Thanks.


2 posted on 12/29/2013 11:50:59 PM PST by Pinkbell
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To: Pinkbell

I e-mailed a message therapists once, but she never got back to me.


3 posted on 12/30/2013 12:02:10 AM PST by 2ndDivisionVet (A courageous man finds a way, an ordinary man finds an excuse.)
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To: Pinkbell

As has been well noted on FR for over a decade, the Mainstream Media is almost COMPLETELY Gay-Controlled now, from Hollywood, to your local TV News. The gays in charge, like at NBC, will ONLY hire fellow gays, or those compliant to the Gay “Lifestyle.

Gay propaganda is even force-fed to the kiddies via cartoons now, the takeover of Prime-Time TV just wasn’t enough.

Next up for these people will be legalizing pedophile gay sex, (while straights will still be considered a violent crime.) Hell of a world we are leaving for our kids, isn’t it?


4 posted on 12/30/2013 12:16:16 AM PST by tcrlaf (Well, it is what the Sheeple voted for....)
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As has been well noted on FR for over a decade, the Mainstream Media is almost COMPLETELY Gay-Controlled now, from Hollywood, to your local TV News.

As a news director once said to me "what other guys are you going to find that are that concerned with their appearance?"

5 posted on 12/30/2013 12:26:22 AM PST by papertyger ("refusing to draw an inescapable conclusion does not qualify as a 'difference of opinion.'")
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7 posted on 12/30/2013 12:40:35 AM PST by 2ndDivisionVet (A courageous man finds a way, an ordinary man finds an excuse.)
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To: Pinkbell

? Really?

Her choice of behaving in a homosexual way has been a pretty open secret.

I guess the powers that be thought, since the homosexuals lost big time in the Duck Dynasty hoopla, NOW would be a good time for “good publicity” for their community.


8 posted on 12/30/2013 12:42:14 AM PST by SoFloFreeper
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So was she a soccer player, basketball player or a women’s golfer?


9 posted on 12/30/2013 12:45:17 AM PST by A CA Guy ( God Bless America, God Bless and keep safe our fighting men and women.)
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To: SoFloFreeper

So was she a soccer player, basketball player or a women’s golfer?


10 posted on 12/30/2013 12:45:31 AM PST by A CA Guy ( God Bless America, God Bless and keep safe our fighting men and women.)
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Well, hate to break it to you folks. Since it's the end of an old year, and will be starting a new year, I'd like to announce that I'm straight, Christian, and married.

There, I said it. Hope that pisses off the lefties.

11 posted on 12/30/2013 1:08:18 AM PST by chemicalman (The more support I see,the harder I want to work,and the more determined I am not to let folks down.)
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“... Amber Laign, a message therapists ...”

So her girlfriend helps people with their prose?

I don’t get it.


12 posted on 12/30/2013 1:47:38 AM PST by Vendome (Don't take life so seriously-you won't live through it anyway-Enjoy Yourself ala Louis Prima)
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To: Pinkbell; Revolting cat!

Did her girlfriend know?


13 posted on 12/30/2013 1:53:52 AM PST by a fool in paradise ("Health care is too important to be left to the government.")
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She is a repulsive freak who is held up as normal. I never watch these morning shows anyhow. Years ago she worked local TV and had the most outlandish mullet hairdo like a super mullet. She was a former athe_uh_lete...... She was probably gay as s*** back then.

She was in women’s basketball in college and is gay??? What a shock!


14 posted on 12/30/2013 1:59:58 AM PST by dennisw (The first principle is to find out who you are then you can achieve anything -- Buddhist monk)
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To: Pinkbell

Is there a heterosexual left on broadcast TV? Keith Olberman?


15 posted on 12/30/2013 2:06:12 AM PST by Rummyfan (Iraq: it's not about Iraq anymore, it's about the USA!)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Message therapy is very helpful in relieving stress caused by being unclear about what you’re saying. It has changed my life.


16 posted on 12/30/2013 2:37:44 AM PST by Conspiracy Guy (Did the ancients know they were ancients? Or did they see themselves as presents?)
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To: tcrlaf

This has just confirmed the beliefs of earlier Americans that one bad apple can indeed spoil the barrel. There can be no real peaceful co-existence between right and wrong, between natural and unnatural and between good and evil.


17 posted on 12/30/2013 3:03:47 AM PST by ZULU (Impeach that Bastard Barrack Hussein Obama the Doctor Mengele of Medical Care)
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To: Pinkbell

O to the important things... How about those CAROLINA PANTHERS?


18 posted on 12/30/2013 3:30:06 AM PST by personalaccts (Is George W going to protect the border?)
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To: Pinkbell
It's perfectly normal to be homosexual, dontcha' know - the weirdos are the heterosexuals.

(Some day the straights may be able to come out of the closet, not yet, though - second-class citizens and all that - got to make up for genrations of oppression, etc.).

19 posted on 12/30/2013 4:46:30 AM PST by Psalm 73 ("Gentlemen, you can't fight in here - this is the War Room".)
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I am going to come out of the closet, here on FR. I am a lesbian trapped in a man's body. There, I did it.

5.56mm

20 posted on 12/30/2013 4:51:05 AM PST by M Kehoe
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