Selena Gomez is formally married to Benny Blanco after multiple 12 months of relationship — and the couple have rather a lot in widespread.
Gomez revealed via Instagram on September 27, 2025 ,that she tied the knot with the file producer in Santa Barbara, California. Us Weekly completely discovered that a few of the couple's closest associates — together with Gomez' Solely Murders within the Constructing costars Steve Martin and Martin Brief, Paris Hilton and Ashley Park — have been in attendance for 2 days of festivities.
Identical to Gomez, 32, Blanco, 36, has a string of hit songs to his identify together with Kesha's “Tik Tok” and Katy Perry's “Teenage Dream,” making him and the Golden Globe nominee a match made in musical heaven.
“Ceaselessly begins now,” Gomez captioned an Instagram put up on Wednesday, December 11, that confirmed off her engagement ring. Blanco celebrated the milestone second, writing within the feedback part, “Hey wait… that's my spouse.”
Gomez first confirmed her relationship with Blanco in December 2023, revealing that that they had been collectively for “six months.”
Selena Gomez's high-profile relationships have made headlines through the years, from her off-and-on romance with Justin Bieber to her temporary relationship with The Weeknd. “I'm the sort of lady that loves tremendously massive. I simply have all the time been that lady,” Gomez instructed Miami's Energy 96.5 FM in Could 2017. “I'll give my coronary heart and […]
“He's my absolute all the pieces in my coronary heart,” she wrote in an Instagram remark on the time. “He [has] been the most effective factor that's ever occurred to me. The top. … He's nonetheless higher than anybody I've been with. Info.”
Now, as they get set to stroll down the aisle and grow to be one in all Hollywood's subsequent energy {couples}, right here's what it's essential learn about Benny Blanco:
He Was Mentored by Dr. Luke
Blanco was mentored by prolific pop music producer Dr. Luke, who has produced hits for the likes of Katy Perry, Kesha, Kelly Clarkson, Pink and Britney Spears. With Luke, Blanco coproduced and cowrote Perry's hit music “Teenage Dream” and Kesha's “Tik Tok.”
Blanco has labored with A-listers together with Ed Sheeran, Katy Perry, Kesha, Britney Spears, Rihanna and Kanye West. Blanco's résumé additionally consists of tracks with two of Gomez's exes: Justin Bieber and The Weeknd.
Blanco and Gomez first crossed paths in 2015, collaborating on her songs “Similar Previous Love” and “Kill Em With Kindness.” After reuniting on “I Can't Get Sufficient” 4 years later, Blanco labored with Gomez once more in 2023. He assisted within the manufacturing of her pop music return, “Single Quickly.”
He Initially Wished to Be a Rapper
Born Benjamin Joseph Levin, Blanco all the time wished to be concerned within the music trade and initially had his sights set on being a rapper. He instructed The New York Times in 2018 that he later switched to manufacturing when he realized “nobody cares what a chubby Jewish child from Virginia thinks.”
“I wouldn't think about myself something. I feel I'm a loser,” Blanco confessed of his profession to NME in April 2021. “I don't suppose there's any world the place I'd say, ‘Yeah, man, I'm a hitmaker.' I'm the man who is available in and tries to strategy music from a spot of true feeling and emotion and actually giving it my all as a result of if I'm not, then what am I doing in life?”
Blanco defined that he tries to make music that “doesn't sound like what's being performed” on the radio however as a substitute suits every particular person artist.
He Ran 2 Report Labels
Along with producing and writing songs, Blanco was the pinnacle of two file labels underneath the Interscope Information banner. His labels, Mad Love Information and Mates Preserve Secrets and techniques, have been as soon as house to Tory Lanez, Cashmere Cat and Jessie Ware.
“Benny Blanco, he works in actually wonderful brief bursts. I'd be like this militant [person] — ‘We needs to be actually within the studio as a result of it's 12 o'clock?!' He'd be like, ‘Chiiiiilll, let's go to the store,'” Ware mentioned of working with Blanco in a 2014 interview with Grantland. “I used to be getting annoyed, after which I understand that is the best way he labored, and it made him work rather more brilliantly.”
He Has His Personal Cookbook
Blanco and The Bear star — and real-life chef — Matty Matheson collaborated on a YouTube sequence, Matty and Benny Eat Out America, in 2020, and a follow-up present, Stupid F*cking Cooking Show, in 2021.
Earlier this 12 months, Blanco launched his personal cookbook, Open Broad: A Cookbook for Mates, by which he shares a few of his favourite recipes and find out how to throw a killer feast.
The ebook even has Gomez's stamp of approval. “So happy with @itsbennyblanco – Open Broad is out now!!” she shared through Instagram in Could.
He's Been Open About His Psychological Well being
Throughout an interview with Howard Stern in Could, Blanco opened up about his struggles with anxiousness. “I stored it to myself. I used to be like, ‘In fact, the room spins while you're about to take a check while you're 12,'” he mentioned.
“I began doing [cognitive behavioral therapy]. It was essential to me to get this toolbox. Each time I used to be having anxious ideas, I may attain into this little toolbox and assist myself recover from it. I've helped so many artists and folks try this,” he continued.
“I wrestle with anxiousness, I wrestle with impostor syndrome, I wrestle with all this stuff,” he added.
Blanco's spouse has additionally been open about her psychological well being struggles, together with in her Apple TV+ documentary, Selena Gomez: My Thoughts & Me.
