{"id":115982,"date":"2025-11-03T18:02:10","date_gmt":"2025-11-03T18:02:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/115982\/"},"modified":"2025-11-03T18:02:10","modified_gmt":"2025-11-03T18:02:10","slug":"lara-spencer-reveals-what-happened-during-the-commercial-breaks-on-gmas-50th-anniversary-show-exclusive","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/115982\/","title":{"rendered":"Lara Spencer Reveals What Happened During the Commercial Breaks on \u201cGMA\u201d\u2019s 50th Anniversary Show (Exclusive)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>NEED TO KNOW<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">On Monday, Nov. 3, Good Morning America celebrated its 50th anniversary with a special broadcast that featured some familiar faces: Diane Sawyer, Joan Lunden and Charlie Gibson<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Lara Spencer tells PEOPLE what went on behind the scenes between the returning vets and current anchors Robin Roberts, Michael Strahan and George Stephanopoulos<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">It was &#8220;a really fun party behind the scenes,&#8221; Spencer says<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Every day is an exciting one at <a href=\"https:\/\/people.com\/good-morning-america-hosts-run-nyc-marathon-before-50th-anniversary-11816223\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Good Morning America;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">Good Morning America<\/a>, but spirits were particularly high on Monday as the ABC morning show celebrated its 50th anniversary.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">On Nov. 3, anchors past and present gathered at 7 Hudson Square in New York City to mark the show&#8217;s milestone birthday. Former anchors <a href=\"https:\/\/people.com\/tag\/diane-sawyer\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Diane Sawyer;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">Diane Sawyer<\/a>, Charlie Gibson and <a href=\"https:\/\/people.com\/health\/joan-lunden-says-going-public-with-her-2014-breast-cancer-journey-changed-her-life-in-the-most-positive-way\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Joan Lunden;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">Joan Lunden<\/a> joined anchors <a href=\"https:\/\/people.com\/tag\/robin-roberts\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Robin Roberts;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">Robin Roberts<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/people.com\/tag\/michael-strahan\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Michael Strahan;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">Michael Strahan<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/people.com\/tag\/george-stephanopoulos\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:George Stephanopoulos;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">George Stephanopoulos<\/a>, along with other GMA faces, like <a href=\"https:\/\/people.com\/tag\/lara-spencer\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Lara Spencer;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">Lara Spencer<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/people.com\/sam-champion-skin-cancer-scar-back-on-gma-8730509\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Sam Champion;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">Sam Champion<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/people.com\/tag\/ginger-zee\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Ginger Zee;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">Ginger Zee<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Spencer, 56, who has been a part of the GMA family for over two decades, tells PEOPLE the morning&#8217;s broadcast was a &#8220;pinch-me moment, big time,&#8221; in more ways than one. &#8220;To look over and see Diane, Charlie, Joan, Nancy [Dussault] \u2014 it just was a trip down memory lane, not only for me as a member of the GMA family, but also before that, growing up with GMA and watching with my family,&#8221; she says.<\/p>\n<p><img alt=\"Lara Spencer at the 'Good Morning America' 50th anniversary celebration on Nov. 03, 2025\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"320\" height=\"480\" decoding=\"async\" data-nimg=\"1\" class=\"rounded-lg\" style=\"color:transparent\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/1989997252f3c808fc3f582acdd38c7a.jpeg\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Lara Spencer at the &#8216;Good Morning America&#8217; 50th anniversary celebration on Nov. 03, 2025<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The morning&#8217;s show was also &#8220;a really fun party behind the scenes,&#8221; Spencer reveals. &#8220;[During] every single commercial break, we would get up and kind of mingle and catch up,&#8221; she says. &#8220;So it was great. It was a big family reunion.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">However, according to Spencer, &#8220;every day is a party&#8221; at Good Morning America. &#8220;I&#8217;m not kidding you. It&#8217;s wild,&#8221; she says.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">She adds, &#8220;It&#8217;s sometimes hard, but we laugh a lot, and it goes by really quick. And you leave here knowing that you&#8217;ve learned something and that, hopefully, the people that you&#8217;re talking to are informed and maybe have a smile and are ready to start their day.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><img alt=\"Heidi Gutman\/American Broadcasting Companies, Inc. via Getty\u00a0 From Left: Michael Strahan, Robin Roberts and George Stephanopolous host 'GMA' on June 19, 2025\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"960\" height=\"640\" decoding=\"async\" data-nimg=\"1\" class=\"rounded-lg\" style=\"color:transparent\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/c04edd276591974faec52e3b2d7ebd12.jpeg\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Heidi Gutman\/American Broadcasting Companies, Inc. via Getty <\/p>\n<p> From Left: Michael Strahan, Robin Roberts and George Stephanopolous host &#8216;GMA&#8217; on June 19, 2025<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The show&#8217;s ability to bring happiness even amidst hard times is something that Zee, 44, also loves about it. &#8220;I love the truthfulness of it. There are many mornings that are not full of sunshine and rainbows, and I think Robin does a really great job at this \u2014 we just say it like it is and feel it like it is,&#8221; she tells PEOPLE.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">&#8220;Not every day feels good in the studio, and that&#8217;s okay. That&#8217;s how life is. And so I think that&#8217;s one of my favorite parts, is the real part of it,&#8221; the meteorologist continues.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Never miss a story \u2014 sign up for<a href=\"https:\/\/people.com\/people-news-daily-newsletter-sign-up-8692701\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:PEOPLE&#039;s free daily newsletter;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \"> PEOPLE&#8217;s free daily newsletter<\/a> to stay up-to-date on the best of what PEOPLE has to offer\u200b\u200b, from celebrity news to compelling human interest stories.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Good Morning America airs weekdays on ABC. Check local listings.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Read the original article on <a href=\"https:\/\/people.com\/lara-spencer-what-happened-during-breaks-on-gma-50th-anniversary-exclusive-11842107\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:People;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">People<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"NEED TO KNOW On Monday, Nov. 3, Good Morning America celebrated its 50th anniversary with a special broadcast&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":115983,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[4272,82510,82508,156,82512,82513,82511,82506,82509,111,139,69,82507,82514,437],"class_list":{"0":"post-115982","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-tv","8":"tag-50th-anniversary","9":"tag-charlie-gibson","10":"tag-diane-sawyer","11":"tag-entertainment","12":"tag-george-stephanopolous","13":"tag-gma","14":"tag-joan-lunden","15":"tag-lara-spencer","16":"tag-michael-strahan","17":"tag-new-zealand","18":"tag-newzealand","19":"tag-nz","20":"tag-robin-roberts","21":"tag-sam-champion","22":"tag-tv"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/115982","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=115982"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/115982\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/115983"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=115982"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=115982"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=115982"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}