{"id":841911,"date":"2026-09-09T16:16:09","date_gmt":"2026-09-09T16:16:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/841911\/"},"modified":"2026-09-09T16:16:09","modified_gmt":"2026-09-09T16:16:09","slug":"abc-news-adds-rachel-scott-rhiannon-ally-to-weekend-good-morning-america","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/841911\/","title":{"rendered":"ABC News Adds Rachel Scott, Rhiannon Ally to Weekend ‘Good Morning America’"},"content":{"rendered":"

\n\tABC News<\/a> is adding a few new faces to its weekend morning mix.<\/p>\n

\n\tRachel Scott, the Disney news division\u2019s senior political correspondent, will start to co-anchor Saturday telecasts of \u201cGood Morning America<\/a>\u201d on September 12, while Rhiannon Ally, who has worked on overnight programs, will start to co-anchor Sundays. Scott is paired with Whit Johnson, while Ally is teamed with Gio Benitez.<\/a><\/p>\n

\n\tLeslie Lopez will work with both teams as the new weekend meteorologist for \u201cGMA.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cWe know weekend mornings are precious to our audience, and we could not be more excited to have Whit, Rachel, Gio and Rhiannon as our new weekend team, along with Leslie, to help our viewers make the most of their Saturdays and Sundays,\u201d said Simone Swink<\/a>, senior executive producer of ABC News\u2019 broader \u201cGMA\u201d franchise. <\/a>The various anchors, she added, are likely to turn up on weekday broadcasts of the show as well.<\/p>\n

\n\tScott, who began her career at ABC News as a production associate in 2016, plays an integral role in the ABC News report. She will continue as the news division\u2019s senior political correspondent, covering the White House, Capitol Hill and more from Washington, D.C., in addition to co-anchoring \u201cGMA\u201d Saturday from New York.<\/p>\n

\n\tAlly joined ABC News 2021, and recently served as co-anchor of \u201cWorld News Now\u201d and \u201cGood Morning America First Look.\u201d She previously worked at KSHB in Kansas City, Missouri, WFOR in Miami and WCBS in New York before joining ABC News.<\/p>\n

\n\tLopes joined ABC News this past April from KABC, where she served as the morning meteorologist providing weekday weather reports for the 4 a.m., 5 a.m. and 6 a.m. newscasts in Los Angeles. <\/p>\n

\n\tThe four weekend co-anchors will also anchor \u201cABC News Live Weekend\u201d on a rotating basis on weekend mornings beginning at 10 a.m. eastern on ABC News\u2019 streaming news channel<\/a> on Disney+, Hulu and the ABC News app.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"ABC News is adding a few new faces to its weekend morning mix. Rachel Scott, the Disney news…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":841912,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[54],"tags":[9257,88,88809,356371,92],"class_list":["post-841911","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tv","tag-abc-news","tag-entertainment","tag-good-morning-america","tag-simone-swink","tag-tv"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/841911","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=841911"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/841911\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/841912"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=841911"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=841911"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=841911"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}