A celebrity couple, both prominent television personalities, are embroiled in a contentious divorce battle, with disputes reportedly reaching down to who owns the grapes stored in their mansion’s refrigerator, according to legal documents.

Josh Elliott, a former CBS News anchor, initiated divorce proceedings against his wife, Liz Cho, a news anchor for Eyewitness News, in June. The Daily Mail has obtained court documents that detail the increasingly acrimonious nature of their separation.

In one incident from January, Elliott’s legal team claims he faced a heated confrontation at their six-bedroom, $4.2 million home in Weston, Connecticut, when he tried to prepare a school snack for his daughter from a previous relationship.

The documents allege that Cho erupted in anger at Elliott while he was washing grapes for his daughter’s lunch, asserting that the grapes belonged to her and forbidding him from including them in the child’s meal, with their daughter present during the altercation.

Cho also has a daughter from a previous relationship, adding complexity to the family dynamics.

The couple, who married in July 2015 in a star-studded ceremony in Montecito, California, reached the brink of divorce just weeks shy of celebrating their 10th wedding anniversary, as outlined in the court filings.

No details about the reason why Elliott wanted a divorce have been shared.  

His January filing also accused Cho of ‘locking doors and shutting off lights on [Elliott’s] teenage daughter in the evening when it was 14 degrees outside.’ 

Former CBS News host Josh Elliott, 54, filed for the dissolution of his ten-year marriage almost a year ago. The proceedings have become increasingly contentious, Connecticut court papers show

Eyewitness News anchor Liz Cho, 55, met Elliott – a former Good Morning America anchor – while working for ABC

Elliot further accused Cho of leaving the couple’s two posh Portuguese Water Dogs in the mansion without telling him ‘despite [the dogs] requiring daily care.’ 

The same filing accused Cho of ‘monitoring and listening to [Elliott’s] private phone calls; [and] rifling through [Elliott’s] personal belongings and closet.’

If temperatures outside the mansion were chilly during the alleged lockout of Elliott’s daughter mentioned in January, the atmosphere was similarly Arctic over the holidays. 

A December 18, 2025, ruling by Bridgeport Superior Court said Cho was allowed use of the manse between December 23 and December 25 ‘for purposes of entertaining her family for the Christmas Holiday.’

But the ruling warned Cho to be out the door by 11am sharp on Christmas Day. 

Elliott was told he could then have the mansion for his family celebrations between 11am on December 25 through December 30.

‘The Defendant/Wife shall not return to the marital home prior to December 30 2025,’ the ruling ordered. 

Elliott and Cho were also warned to stay out of each others bedrooms and their respective stepdaughters’ rooms.

The two initially attempted to coexist at their shared home in Connecticut but recently abandoned the effort. Each have teenage daughters from previous relationships

The two wed in 2015 in Montecito, California, after two years of dating. Elliott – a former NBC Sports and GMA anchor – was fired from CBS in February 2017

As relations between Elliott and Cho deteriorated, he decided to move out of the property and into a nearby apartment in January.

That sparked further anger from Cho, who filed legal papers on January 29 requesting that Elliot be held in contempt of court for allegedly ‘ransacking’ the marital home. 

Cho’s filing said that Elliott secretly plotted and executed to remove a ‘significant amount of furniture and furnishings’ the day after she went on vacation with her daughter.

‘In addition to the furniture and furnishings, Elliott removed the parties’ two Portuguese Water dogs from the marital residence, who were supposed [to] stay at the martial residence with [Elliott] while [Cho] was away.’

Cho’s motion motion also alleged she was ‘missing a valuable watch and earrings’ following her husband’s exit, violating an agreement that neither party touch assets without written consent. 

Another motion filed by Cho on the same day sought to secure ‘exclusive use and possession of the marital residence’ due to Elliott leaving it ‘abandoned’.

Elliott hit back via his own lawyers. One filing accused Cho of being ‘hostile’ toward his daughter, who is 17, while the other accused Cho of purposely making ‘inflammatory’ filings ‘that are patently false’, intended to ‘annoy, harass, and intimidate.’

Part of his response to the request involving the house read: ‘Elliott did not ransack the marital home.’

A Portuguese Water Dog is pictured. Josh Elliott and Liz Cho battled over the care of their pets in contentious divorce papers (file photo)

Cho joined ABC 7 in 2003. She told him during one alleged exchange ‘that the grapes were hers and he was not permitted to put them in the child’s lunch, all within earshot of the child,’ according to Elliott’s lawyers

Elliott’s attorneys also blasted what they framed as a ‘baseless’ allegation from Cho – that their client had stolen her jewelry. He moved out in January, according to the documents – which also accused Cho of being ‘hostile’ toward his teenage daughter

‘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 [himself], but his minor child as well,’ it continued.

The filing maintained Elliott had not ‘abandoned’ the home and that Cho’s use of ‘loaded terminology’ was no more than a ‘transparent attempt to sensationalize routine conduct and manufacture urgency where none exists.’

Elliott’s lawyers also blasted Cho’s ‘baseless’ allegation that Elliott had stolen her jewelry and asked why she had not gone to the police or filed an insurance claim. They accused her of making a ‘false accusation.’ 

Further drama erupted in the same filing over Cho’s alleged decision to channel $500,000 from her personal bank account to her daughter’s. 

Elliott’s lawyers said this was done without his permission and branded it an ‘improper scheme’ to remove a ‘substantial marital asset.’

Cho has yet to respond to that allegation in a legal filing.  

The couple have managed to come to one small compromise during their divorce war. 

In January, Cho filed a request demanding all forms of written communication between Elliott ‘and any person, other than the defendant, with whom [Elliott] have or have had a romantic and/or sexual relationship with from July 11 2015 to the present.’

Chu was chided by Elliott earlier this year for allegedly ‘monitoring and listening to [Elliott’s] private phone calls [and] rifling through [his] personal belongings and closet’ as well

The divorce remains ongoing. The couple recently came to an agreement about Elliott’s financial and real estate records. Cho still resides at the six-bedroom home, where Elliott was barred from entering the bedroom of her daughter during the holidays

The pair are next set to appear in court on the first day of May

That was the date the couple tied the knot. Cho also requested Elliott’s financial and real estate records stretching back five years and – bizarrely – a copy of his resume. 

Elliott initially refused to comply with any of the records requests, but has since agreed to provide Cho’s lawyers with his financial and real estate documents. 

Cho and Elliott met while working at ABC in the early 2010s. At the time, Elliott was working as an anchor for Good Morning America, with Cho also serving as a fill-in anchor on that program. 

After a stint with NBC, he joined CBS News as the lead host of the network’s digital news service, CBSN.

He was ousted after just a year due to an on-air incident when he told viewers he was set to leave his post for a larger role at the network.

CBS executives were said to be caught off guard by Elliott’s announcement at the time and let him go.

Elliott was spotted at ‘middle-aged single bars’ in Connecticut earlier this month, sources told Page Six.

Cho, meanwhile, has been with the ABC family since 2003. She is a regular presence on the network’s New York affiliate.

The Daily Mail has contacted lawyers for Elliott and Cho, as well as WABC for comment. The couple are due back in court in May.