The behind-the-scenes of the “Good Morning America” weather department was apparently rather stormy. Rob Marciano reportedly had a drama-filled relationship with Ginger Zee for years. And that made his reported temper worse. “I think she brought out the worst in him. I’m not giving him a pass,” a source told the New York Post in May 2024, adding that Marciano’s fellow meteorologist could also be “nasty.” It was a case of two strong personalities clashing. “She treated him as a beta and she was the alpha,” the insider said.
But Marciano didn’t reserve his behavior for Zee, other sources have claimed. “There were always stories about him about his temper. No one that worked with him or witnessed his behavior is surprised by any of this,” Swetha Sharma, who had previously worked with Marciano, told People shortly after his firing. Marciano struggled to maintain his composure whenever he disagreed with his superiors. “[His] body language and tone would change,” an executive told the New York Post. “If he was unhappy about something, you’d know it.”
That often happened in front of other staffers and not just during confrontations with management. “He lost his cool in meetings when he got news he didn’t like,” the source said. The final straw was when he got into a verbal altercation with a producer, which was overheard by none other than Zee, according to The Daily Beast report. And she reported it to the leadership.
