This is the Real Reason Rob Marciano Left GMA – Did it all start with Ginger Zee?

Ousted ABC News weatherman Rob Marciano frequently butted heads with his predecessor Ginger Zee who ‘brought out the worst in him.’

On Tuesday, it was announced that Marciano, 55, was fir3d two years after he was yanked off air for ‘ang3r issu3s.’

Marciano had joined ‘GMA’ in 2014 to take over Zee’s weekend role after she was promoted to the daily set to replace chief meteorologist Sam Champion.  Marciano and Zee’s relationship was rocky for years, an anonymous media executive told the New York Post.

While Marciano’s ‘hot temper’ caused issues on set, the source said Zee was also capable of being ‘nasty.’

‘I think she brought out the worst in him. I’m not giving him a pass,’ the source said. ‘It’s sad because they are two people who are really into the science of the weather, unfortunately their personalities didn’t work.’

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On Tuesday, Rob Marciano was fir3d from ABC News, two years after he was yanked off air for ‘ang3r issu3s’

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An anonymous media executive said Marciano and his former co-worker, Good Morning America meteorologist Ginger Zee, had a rocky relationship

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The source said that Zee often treated Marciano as a ‘beta’ while she acted as ‘the alpha.’ Marciano and Zee are seen posing together in Halloween costumes on set in 2018

The source added Zee is a ‘know-it-all’ that acted as an ‘alpha’ and often treated Marciano as a ‘beta.’

‘But they were much more peers in experience, more than Ginger was with Sam.’

Zee, who joined Good Morning America in 2011, reportedly ‘pulled rank’ over assignments when Marciano joined the network.

When he was brought on, the station decided to launch a 24/7 weather unit for ABC News, ‘GMA’ and World News Tonight.

‘If you say something she disagrees with, she references her Twitter followers, saying “you are wrong, my followers on Twitter loved it,”‘ the media executive revealed.

The executive said when Marciano ‘was unhappy about something’ others would know.

‘He lost his cool in meetings when he got news he didn’t like,’ the source said.

Another source, close to Zee, 43, said Marciano had ‘behavioral’ problems.

‘Ginger is a collaborative, inclusive and hard-working leader who is well respected by her colleagues and has never had a complaint about her working style,’ the person told the outlet, adding any other suggestion is ‘sexist.’

DailyMail.com contacted Zee and Marciano’s teams for comment.

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Marciano had joined ‘GMA’ in 2014 to take of Zee’s weekend role after she was promoted to the daily set to replace chief meteorologist Sam Champion. (pictured: Zee outside of Good Morning America on April 1)

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‘I think she brought out the worst in him. I’m not giving him a pass,’ the source said. ‘It’s sad because they are two people who are really into the science of the weather, unfortunately their personalities didn’t work’

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Zee, who joined Good Morning America in 2011, reportedly ‘pulled rank’ over assignments when Marciano joined the network

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Marciano appeared on Good Morning America until he disappeared in March 2022 during the breakdown of his marriage to ex-wife Eryn Marciano (pictured)

Marciano appeared on Good Morning America until he disappeared in March 2022 during the breakdown of his marriage to ex-wife Eryn Marciano.

He was ‘b@nned’ from the studio after an incident with a female colleague and made multiple colleagues ‘feel unc0mf0rtable’ around him.

After a month off the air he was shuffled to ABC’s World News Tonight, which shoots from a different studio, and reported from the field.

However, he was fir3d on Tuesday after two years of exile from the flagship morning show, the New York Post reported.

Why he was dumped now is unknown and neither he nor ABC commented.

Marciano’s last report was published on Sunday, a ‘reporter’s notebook’ from Shreveport, Louisiana, a year after a huge storm that now reads like his epitaph.

He was reposting ABC News weather content on his Instagram stories on Tuesday morning, indicating the firing may have been sudden.

Marciano was initially suspended for a month, but GMA executive producer Simone Swink kept him b@nned from the studio indefinitely.

‘He was found to have done something … that was improper, but he was punished for it, and they still haven’t let him return,’ a source told the Post last year.

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After a month off the air he was shuffled to ABC’s World News Tonight, which shoots from a different studio, and reported from the field

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Eryn Marciano filed for divorce on June 18, 2021, and they are co-parenting their children Madelynn, 12, and Mason, 6

‘He made people feel unc0mf0rtable. There was a period where there were some issues, a number of alarming events,’ a second source claimed.

‘There were times when [Marciano] was very cranky and angry… unsav0ry behavi0r on his part. He was pulled off to deal with it and he’s been back.’

Swink was said to have considered Marciano’s issues a ‘distraction’ from the show’s newsgathering mission and refused to let him back in the studio.

His ex-wife, Marciano filed for divorce on June 18, 2021, and the breakup dragged on well into 2022 with their attorneys exchanging legal salvos.

‘The last couple of years have been very difficult,’ Marciano said at the time.

‘I didn’t want this and tried to save the marriage, but we are sadly divorcing. My focus now is on my kids.’

They were married for 11 years and are co-parenting their children Madelynn, 12, and Mason, 6.