Who Is Andy Cohen’s Boyfriend? His Apparent Kevin Sobieski Romance
Andy Cohen may have a new man in his life! On June 2, the Bravo host was photographed holding hands with Kevin Sobieski in New York City. The men were seen hitting up Via Carota in the West Village together.
While not much is known about their status (TMZ reported they’ve been “dating for a few months”), we did a deep dive into Sobieski, as well as Cohen’s relationship history. Scroll down to learn more about the Watch What Happens Live star’s possible new man (including his recognizable ex!)
Who is Kevin Sobieski?
Sobieski is a New York City finance guy. He received his finance degree from the University of Wisconsin-Madison, then his MBA from Harvard Business School, per LinkedIn.
Currently, Sobieski works in portfolio operations at TPG. He is a member of “TPG Capital’s Portfolio Ops team, focusing primarily on Healthcare investments.” He previously worked at companies including MacAndrews & Forbes, Newell Brands, and Bain & Company.
Prior to his relationship with Cohen, Sobieski dated Benj Pasek, a composer and lyricist. With his musical partner Justin Paul, he wrote the music and lyrics to Broadway’s Dear Evan Hansen, The Greatest Showman, and more. The pair’s film credits include La La Land, The Greatest Showman, Dear Evan Hansen, Aladdin, and others.
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Pasek is an EGOT winner: He won an Oscar for Best Original Song (“City of Stars” from La La Land), Emmy Awards for Original Song for a Preschool Program (“That’s Why We Love Nature” from Sesame Street) and Outstanding Original Music and Lyrics “(Which of the Pickwick Triplets Did It?” from Only Murders in the Building), Grammy Awards for Best Musical Theater Album (Dear Evan Hansen) and Best Compilation Soundtrack for Visual Media (The Greatest Showman), and Tony Awards for Best Original Score (Dear Evan Hansen) and Best Musical (A Strange Loop).
What is Kevin Sobieski and Andy Cohen’s age difference?
Sobieski is reportedly 42 years told to Cohen’s 58 years old, so they have an approximate 16-year age difference.
When did Andy Cohen come out as gay?
Cohen told Oprah Daily that he knew he was gay around age 12 or 13, then became sexually active in late high school and early college. After coming out to some of his friends, Cohen came out to his parents in his early 20s.
“I was 20 years old, and when I came home, my mom had found a letter that I wrote to my roommate in London,” Cohen shared. “The letter said, ‘I told my friend Jackie, ‘I’m freaked out because I don’t know how to tell others.’ It was clear I was coming out to people in the letter. I’d originally written it in my journal when I realized I’d have to come out eventually, and it said everything I felt I needed to say; it was a long, freeing kind of purge of self-expression in which I was just explaining who I was, which I often used to tell my friends. After my mom found it, I came out to her.”
Cohen came out to his colleagues in 1989 during his first internship at CBS Mornings, but it wasn’t until 2009 that he had his public coming out on television. It happened at The Real Housewives of New Jersey Season 1 reunion.
“Teresa Giudice‘s husband said something that Danielle Staub thought was homophobic, or disrespectful to gays,” he recalled. “We had a conversation about it, and Theresa said it wasn’t offensive. I said — and this is way before I started inserting myself into anything — ‘Look, I have to say, I’m the only gay guy in the room. I am gay, and it was not comfortable to me.’ At the time, it was kind of a big deal, because I hadn’t come out publicly on TV.”
Who else has Andy Cohen dated?
In the early 2000s, Cohen was in a relationship with John Hill, a producer on WWHL and his cohost on SiriusXM. They have stayed friendly since their split and were simply “in different places in our lives,” Cohen once revealed.
As Hill explained, “Like any breakup that’s sad, it was time to break up. I was changing careers, I was nearing 30. He was going to change careers, too. I knew he was going to a bigger network, and he was adjusting to that.”
Cohen is a single father to two children born via surrogate.
