WATCH: George Clooney Had To Find Out About Brangelina From A CNN Reporter

While the vast majority of us, by now, have heard the devastating news that Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie are getting divorced, and therefore love as a concept is little more than a fool’s errand, there are some people that – believe it or not – have been a little bit *too* busy to be plugged into the entertainment news cycle twenny-four-sevs like the rest of us.

Some people, for example, have had the UN General Assembly to attend to.
George Clooney, who is a close friend of both Pitt and Jolie, has been busy for the bulk of the day with the Leader’s Summit for Refugees at the United Nations, where he and wife Amal Clooney joined leaders from over 50 countries committed funds, resources, and legislation to help stem the growing international refugee crisis.
So if that were you, you’d be forgiven if you didn’t exactly check your phone for TMZ pings on the reg.
Unfortunately, the news of the couple’s divorce skipped the agenda during the summit, and as such poor Cloons had to find out via a CNN reporter interviewing him after the meet.
Clooney, taken aback by the news and clearly uncomfortable about being forced to react to it on camera, fumbled his way through an immediate reaction (as you would).

Poor bastard. It’s easy to forget in amongst all this that there’s real people involved who are about to go through some real shit.

‘Course that doesn’t stop the ole’ media cycle though, for it is the snake eating itself.

Source: Twitter.
Photo: E. Charbonneau/Getty.

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