Janai Norman, the former co-anchor of “Good Morning America Weekend,” has moved to South Africa with her husband, Eli, and their three children, months after her sudden exit from ABC News.
Norman, who was born in South Africa and raised in DeKalb, Illinois, appears to have settled in the KwaZulu-Natal province, according to The Sun. She announced the relocation on Friday via Instagram Stories.
“And speaking of breaking, have I mentioned my family is taking a break from the US?” Norman wrote over a photo of a palm-lined street overlooking the water. In a follow-up post showing monkeys near a road, she added: “And now we see monkeys all the time.”
The move comes seven months after ABC declined to renew Norman’s contract, ending her run on “GMA Weekend.” Norman had joined the show in 2022 after being hired by ABC News in 2016, having first interned with the network’s NewsOne program in 2011.
At the time of her departure in April, Norman addressed the sudden end of her tenure in a video posted to X. “I’d hoped that we’d have more time. It’s been hard on me that our time was cut short. I have loved my job,” she said. “So, it really breaks my heart that I don’t get to say goodbye. I’m so sorry that I don’t get to say goodbye. It would have been fun.”
She later unfollowed “GMA” on social media. Status reported in August that Norman had reportedly clashed with colleagues and was “not well-liked” by network bosses.
Norman’s Instagram posts also referenced her upcoming memoir, “Breaking,” due out in roughly two months. “Less than two months out from publication, forcing myself to post daily for 60 days and make use of stories,” she wrote, urging followers to pre-order the book.
Earlier this year, Norman listed her six-bedroom home in Montclair, New Jersey, for $3.2 million; it is now listed at $3 million.
Since leaving ABC, Norman has publicly criticised the network’s coverage of several stories. In July, she accused ABC of becoming “complicit in upholding white supremacy” over Michael Strahan’s interview with the parents of Nolan Wells, an 18-year-old found dead after a boating trip in Mississippi.
“Bless Michael, ’cause he had it right the first time. The question should have been, ‘Do you believe that?’ Not asking these grieving parents to defend a decision that we don’t even know for certain their deceased son made,” Norman said in an Instagram video. “That was not an objective question. Subjectively, I would say that it was insensitive.”
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