On Wednesday, Puck’s Dylan Byers revealed that – in a complete coincidence – ABC’s Good Morning America and This Week co-host George Stephanopoulos “Stephanopoulos has just signed a new, multiyear contract with the network, unrelated to the timing of” the network’s $15 million donation Saturday to President-Elect Trump’s future presidential library as settlement for a defamation suit stemming from Stephanopoulos’s false comments about Trump and the E. Jean Carroll case on March 10.
“Several insiders speculated that Stephanopoulos’s new deal includes a pay cut, and noted that he is likely to eventually take on a more limited role, after already ceding pole-anchor position on special event coverage to David Muir,” Byers added.
For ABC, Byers cited reports that “Stephanopoulos and his co-anchors Robin Roberts and Michael…
