Micheal Strahan is leaving “Good Morning America” in the coming months.
Yahoo! News reports that his $20 million contract expires this year, and he doesn’t plan on renewing it.
Michael Strahan will leave ‘GMA’ by the summer
The legendary football player and NFL Hall of Famer wants to slow down into an early retirement. He has been going hard for the past decade since he made the seamless transition from the gridiron to TV personality and became a co-host of GMA alongside Robin Roberts and George Stephanopoulos.
The hours spent in studios multiply during the NFL season in the fall, when Strahan also works for Fox NFL Sunday after working at GMA all week. In the fall, Strahan works six or seven days a week. He indicated that he doesn’t want to do it anymore.
According to Yahoo!, “It’s a lot,” a source said. He wants to spend more time with his family.”
A different source added, “He will be out by this summer — he’s had enough.”
His daughter’s cancer battle may have influenced Michael Strahan
Strahan may have had an epiphany on what’s more important to him during his previous time off from GMA in 2023 when his daughter Isabella Strahan was fighting brain cancer.
That may have contributed to his decision to exit television gradually. “I won’t go cold turkey on everything, but I see myself slowly dropping different things until you’ll just find me on the golf course,” he told Forbes magazine.
Strahan also considers the lost time with family while getting the bag.
“Time is the one thing that, once it’s gone, you can never get it back. I’m very conscious of that, being a dad. That’s what has led me to think more about the end of my career.”
