Two of network television's familiar faces are tearing each other apart in a Connecticut courtroom, and the filings read like a script no producer would greenlight. Josh Elliott, the former CBS anchor who was ousted from the network in 2017, filed for divorce from ABC "Eyewitness News" anchor Liz Cho on June 20, 2025, after nearly a decade of marriage.
Cho fired back with a cross-complaint on Nov. 6 and has since escalated the proceedings with a contempt motion, allegations of stolen jewelry, and sweeping discovery demands that reach back nearly a decade into Elliott's personal life.
Elliott, 54, calls the accusations "false and inflammatory." Cho, 55, wants sanctions. A hearing is set for March 20.
Cho's legal team has cast a remarkably wide net. Court filings show she is requesting every form of written communication imaginable, including emails, WeChat messages, Facebook messages, text messages, social media messaging, and transcribed voicemails. The scope covers correspondence with "any person, other than the defendant, with whom [Elliott] has or has had a romantic and/or sexual relationship, from July 11, 2015, to the present."
That start date is no accident. The couple tied the knot in Montecito, California, in July 2015.
Cho is also demanding records of:
Elliott objected, arguing the requests are "unreasonable, unnecessary, harassing, and not likely to lead to the discovery of admissible evidence." A source close to the couple told Page Six otherwise, calling the document requests "standard" and describing them as the work of a "thorough" lawyer.
Standard or not, the message is clear: Cho's side wants a forensic accounting of where Elliott's money went, who it went to, and whether any of it traces to relationships outside the marriage.
The contempt motion Cho filed on Jan. 29 paints an even uglier picture. According to court documents, Cho alleges Elliott arranged a moving truck to come to their jointly owned Connecticut residence on Jan. 19, 2026, while she was on vacation. She claims he removed a "significant amount of furniture and furnishings from the marital residence" along with the couple's two Portuguese Water dogs, which were "supposed to stay in the marital residence."
Then there's the jewelry. From the filings:
"On Tuesday, January 6, 2026, [Cho] realized that she was missing a valuable watch and earrings from her jewelry bag."
Cho believes Elliott took them, as court papers state he was "the only other person who had access to the missing watch and jewelry." She has asked the court to sanction him for what she calls a "willful violation" of court orders.
Elliott's response was blunt. He called the jewelry accusation the most "egregious" of Cho's claims:
"This allegation is made without evidence, without corroboration and without even a good-faith attempt to verify the truth."
On the property removal, Elliott acknowledged taking items but characterized them as "a small amount of furniture," much of it from the basement, needed to furnish a new residence. His reasoning, laid out in court papers, reframes the entire dispute:
"He removed limited personal property and furnishings so he would have a safe haven from [Cho's] escalating and erratic behavior direct at not only [Elliott], but his minor child as well."
Elliott further accused Cho of monitoring his private phone calls, rifling through his personal belongings and closet, and leaving the marital residence for extended periods without communication, despite two dogs requiring daily care.
The irony is thick. Both Elliott and Cho built careers delivering the news with composure and authority. Now the news is them, and composure left the building long ago.
Their last public appearance together was in 2016, just a year after the wedding. The marriage, by all visible accounts, had been over in everything but paperwork for years before Elliott made it official last June.
Cho has been with ABC since 2003. Elliott's television career has been considerably more turbulent. He worked at ABC's "Good Morning America" from 2011 to 2014 before joining CBS in March 2016 as CBSN's lead daytime anchor. That stint lasted less than a year. In February 2017, Elliott announced on air that he was stepping down from the digital channel for a larger role at CBS News. The announcement did not go as planned.
A source told Page Six at the time:
"Josh was told he had shown bad judgment by making the announcement, and was walked out of the building by security."
CBS issued a terse statement: "CBS News and Josh Elliott are parting ways. Josh will no longer be reporting for CBS News." A second source offered a different reading, suggesting Elliott had been told by his executive producer to make the announcement, but that the plan was never communicated up the chain of command, and that David Rhodes fired him to cover the internal miscommunication.
Now Elliott is reportedly eyeing a return to television and is said to be in the running to join Gayle King and Nate Burleson on CBS Mornings. Whether a messy, headline-generating divorce helps or hurts that bid is a question CBS executives are presumably weighing right now.
The March 20 hearing will address Cho's contempt motion, and the outcome could set the tone for the rest of the proceedings. If the court finds Elliott violated its orders, sanctions follow. If it accepts his characterization of the removal as limited and justified by a hostile living environment, the leverage shifts.
Both parties previously went through divorces. Cho was married to Evan Gottlieb from 2008 to 2012. Elliott had a previous marriage to Priya Narang. Neither, it seems, prepared them for this one.
Lawyers for both Cho and Elliott did not respond to Page Six's request for comment. The court filings, however, are doing plenty of talking on their behalf.
Two network anchors who spent careers narrating other people's crises are now generating their own. The cameras aren't rolling, but the transcripts are just as revealing.
