{"id":118393,"date":"2025-11-05T00:48:07","date_gmt":"2025-11-05T00:48:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/118393\/"},"modified":"2025-11-05T00:48:07","modified_gmt":"2025-11-05T00:48:07","slug":"joan-lunden-reflects-on-50-years-of-gma","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/118393\/","title":{"rendered":"Joan Lunden reflects on 50 years of &#8216;GMA&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>    <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/632167_1770816_updates.jpg\" alt=\"Photo:\u00a0Joan Lunden celebrates GMA\u2019s 50 years\" width=\"700\" height=\"400\" class=\"\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Photo:\u00a0Joan Lunden celebrates &#8216;GMA\u2019s 50 years<\/p>\n<p>Joan Lunden has shared her reflections on what made Good Morning America such a beloved and enduring show, and why its family spirit still resonates today.<\/p>\n<p>For those unversed, Lunden anchored the morning show alongside David Hartman and later Charlie Gibson until 1997.<\/p>\n<p>In a new chat with PEOPLE Magazine, Lunden took a heartfelt trip down memory lane as she marked the program\u2019s milestone anniversary.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The 75-year-old veteran journalist joined current anchors Robin Roberts, Michael Strahan, and George Stephanopoulos, along with former co-hosts Diane Sawyer and Charlie Gibson, for a special GMA broadcast celebrating the show&#8217;s 50 years on air.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cFifty years! Of course, the only thing that freaks me out is, I was here almost from the beginning!\u201d Lunden joked.<\/p>\n<p>Reflecting on her two decades as co-anchor, she said, \u201cI never dreamed, in 1979 when I was asked to be the host, that I would\u2019ve been there for 20 years.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI look back on it now \u2014 this morning when I woke up, I said, \u2018I did this for 20 years? Are you kidding me?\u2019\u201d she added with a laugh.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBut I\u2019ll tell you, Charlie and I always said it was the best seat in which to view the world. It really was, because whatever was happening in the world, that\u2019s where you are.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Photo:\u00a0Joan Lunden celebrates &#8216;GMA\u2019s 50 years Joan Lunden has shared her reflections on what made Good Morning America&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":118394,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[156,111,139,69,437],"class_list":{"0":"post-118393","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-tv","8":"tag-entertainment","9":"tag-new-zealand","10":"tag-newzealand","11":"tag-nz","12":"tag-tv"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/118393","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=118393"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/118393\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/118394"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=118393"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=118393"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=118393"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}