Journalist Andrew Ross Sorkin is reportedly in a funk after breaking up with longtime boyfriend Lloyd Blankfein.
According to close friends Sorkin, a New York Times columnist and CNBC host, was unceremoniously dumped by the Goldman Sachs CEO right before the two were scheduled to take a long-awaited weekend getaway to St. Barts.
Jilted at the airport, Sorkin barricaded himself in his Manhattan apartment over the weekend with a tub of ice cream and a Netflix subscription. He is refusing to take calls, hasn't showered since Friday, and has now seen the film Bridget Jones' Diary sixteen times.
Sources say the breakup came as a complete shock to Sorkin, who had been dating Blankfien since meeting him during a 2009 interview at the height of the financial crisis.
Boner For Blankfein
The seperation comes as an ever bigger shock to colleagues at the New York Times and CNBC, who say they had no idea Sorkin was dating Blankfien or even that he was gay.
"I was pretty surprised when I heard the news," says an editor at the Times, "But the more I think about it the more it makes sense. Sorkin always defended Goldman Sachs. No matter how unethical their behavior, Sorkin always had an excuse."
A correspondent on CNBC, who asked not to be named, shared the view that Sorkin's love affair with Blankfien explains a lot.
"I was trying to figure out why this guy loved Goldman so much," she says, " This really does resolve that mystery. I can't believe I never noticed it before."
Some expect Sorkin to finally grow some journalistic balls now that he is no longer regularly showers his mouth with the man-seed of one of Wall Street's greatest villains.
But others say that watered down, press release, milquetoast journalism is simply in Sorkin's DNA.
"He may have had a special affinity for Blankfien during their tryst," explains a colleague at the Times, "But he's been a lap dog since he started. I don't think that's gonna change."
Sorkin, for his part, hasn't thought much beyond trying to finally leave his apartment and work up the courage to go shopping.
In an exclusive interview with The Daily Currant, Sorkin he says he'll be out of comission for at least another week, and will be living off a box of expired oatmeal.
"He was the love of my life," Sorkin proclaims,"I'll never meet anyone else like Loyd. He was so temperamental, so mercurial. So vividly powerful.
"You know we were gonna sail to Bermuda together and set up a tax shelter....But I guess that will never happen now....I need to move on."
"Hey...do you happen to have Bob Diamond's phone number?"
