Reports surfaced two weeks ago that the 42-year-old was in talks to join the GMA cast because Elliott’s defection to NBC Sports left Stephanopoulos the only male co-host.
Now GMA is headed by Stephanopoulos, Roberts, Lara Spencer, Amy Robach and Ginger Zee who replaced Sam Champion when he left in December to head up his own program on The Weather Channel.
In the days immediately after Elliott’s surprise departure, Strahan told the ‘Live’ audience that while he had gone for meetings with ABC executives about him working on GMA, nothing had been finalized and no version of the deal would result in him leaving the 9am talk show.
‘This is what I do. This is me. This is my home. I love you,’ he said to Ripa on air on April 2.
Strahan already has a second job as a co-host on Fox NFL Sunday during football season, and he hinted that he plans to keep those ties strong though the evening filming schedule of the football program could cause an interference with his new extra-early morning wake ups.
Details of his contract have also not been revealed, but in an earlier New York Times interview, Strahan’s Fox NFL Sunday co-host Terry Bradshaw joked that Strahan was making $16million as a result of his ‘Live’ deal.
Strahan wouldn’t comment on his salary but brushed it off saying ‘that’s just terr being a knucklehead’.